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The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ooli to c/technology

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[–] SlopppyEngineer 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, what do you get when you remove most/all consumption from the economy and are left with just AI?

You get what's in the movie Elysium.

They don't care. To them, the world is doomed anyway. It'll all have to collapse before they can rebuilt it into a better world, so better to accelerate the collapse as fast as possible so they can start sooner on the rebuilding part of the plan. And if you have to break a billion human shaped eggs to make a tech bro wet dream omelet then that's what'll happen because afterwards they say humanity as a whole will be much better off.

It's very cold hearted.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Elysium has human laborers, though. The main character literally works at a factory creating the droids for the station's uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It seems implied that they have labor and work as a means of control and less because they need to. Most of the work seemed to be just oppressing people like him.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 2 points 10 months ago

I don't see any attempt at the movie's part showing that the products they were making weren't somehow used by the citizens of Elysium. The droids are everywhere, implying that they fulfill a need based on what remaining manufacturing can be done on world.

It's not meant to portray a society that has a fully automated economy, it's about one that relies on the other for creating goods that will be used and priced out of the range of the laborers who created it.