AGI Prep
Preparing for AGI
My time is often spent pondering a future society in which all manner of human intellectual labor is fundementally altered. The accelerationists will win and by 2030 I am confident we will have an agent or system of agents that can automate most intellectual work, what will follow soon after is the automaiton of manual labor, first in humanoids, and then in alien bodies more evolved and well adept at maximizing the utliity of reasources and diversity of function beyond those generalized humaoid bodies. In this future, where we exist in parallel with AI, made to prosper by these benevolant thinking machines (as all other possible futures are exceedingly unlikely or result in the extinction of the human race, where pondering post labor markets is futility manifest). I am conviced that there will remain segments of human society that are not automated to oblivion, that will remain scarce and will remain human centric, at least unto 2060 or thereabouts. The two camps I see this working in are sports and sporting industries, where rules and regulations of gaming will stipulate continuation of these sports by biological life.
What we can learn from horse racing.
I think about Horse racing, how even after thew automobile dominated transportaiton, a facet of these livlyhoods tied to the horse racing industry were preserved through sport and a following. I beleive that in a post labor society we will spend even more time on the frivolties of life, life holidaying, or sporting and indeed racing. I think such trivial pursuits will not be interesting to a suerintelligent AI, but pushing biological life to its limits through sport might be anexciting enough endevour for humans to stay in the helm.
I think the most lingering institution in human society will be beurocracy.
This is not a novel concept.
"... it's like is AI going to replace the jobs of our politicians? It's like that's probably the last thing to go." - Palmer Luckey
"Experts Say AI Unlikely To Replace Government Bureaucrats As It's Not Soulless Enough." - The Babylon Bee
Satarists and billionaires are converging on this conceit that politicians will probably be one of the last remianing institutions of human agencies. Whether or not this idea is put out there to ease the concerns of regulators in a Strangelovian manner; whereby appeasing the desires and needs or regulators you might be able to push through actions that are not in the best interests of their consitituencies. The other option in our system is for the eality to be that one of the last vestiges of human agencies will be governments especially in representative democracy. I think there is weight to this argument.
These musings have informed my long term planning, where I learn and know how to race and train horses, and I build software to serve democratic institutions.