[ExI] thought experiment part 1

[John Clark]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


> *>> technology is rapidly approaching the point where machines alone can
>> do what somebody wants to get done, completely bypassing human labor, and
>> thus also bypassing the abstract concept of "money".*
>>
>
> *> Only in certain fields. [...]  Not politics, nor most things dealing
> with agreements that fundamentally involve other people.*
>

*Politics is about choosing a small set of people that get to make a much
larger set of people do what they tell them to do, and the foundation of
that persuasion has always rested on money, until now.  In the past there
had always been a strong connection between the size of an economy (and
thus the amount of money in existence) and human labor, but when it comes
to economics human labor is about to become irrelevant, so the very concept
of money is going to require such a radical redefinition that we're going
to need to find a new word to express the idea.  *



> *> There is some doubt as to how creative the current sorts of AIs are
> turning out to be, although even if they always require a human to spark
> any truly new idea, they can fan the flames of millions (perhaps some day
> billions) of creators to where it can seem like the AIs themselves are
> coming up with the ideas.*
>

*I can find no evidence to support the claim that humans have some sort of
mysterious "spark", a secret sauce, that an AI could never duplicate. *

*John K Clark  *
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