[ExI] Free Trade

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well, John, who will 'oil the machines'?  AIs will make mistakes from small
and inconsequential, all the way up to taking over.  Who or what is going
to oversee the AIs and catch the mistakes?  Will the truth be an average of
what the AIs think?  In what circumstance will humans be needed to rewrite
the software?

No AI that will ever exist can accurately predict all the ramifications
ofAI actions.  All an AI can do is hope that conditions remain much the
same as they are now.  That will sometimes be wrong.

I do acknowledge that people below the mean IQ are going to be
superfluous.   bill w

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM <efc at disroot.org> wrote:
>
> *> As long as there will be human desires, there will be jobs.*
>
>
> *No there will not be, not when a machine can perform your job, my job,
> everybody's job much much better than any human can, and that is going to
> happen. And I'm not talking about a millennium, I'm not even talking about
> a decade. *
>
> *John K Clark*
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:
>>
>> > How do people around here feel about free trade? When I first joined
>> this list in 1993 nearly every member was a passionate advocate
>> > of free trade including me, but I get the impression that is no longer
>> the case; certainly He Who Must Not Be Named is about as far
>> > from being a free trade advocate as it's possible to be. Even the AI
>> revolution hasn't caused me to change my opinion about free
>> > trade but Universal Basic Income is a different matter; back then I
>> would've argued that the idea was completely impractical and I
>> > would have been correct, but even then I knew that eventually something
>> like it would have to be implemented, however I figured it
>> > was so far in the future I didn't need to think very deeply about it.
>> But the time has come.
>> >
>> > Have the amazing developments in AI during the last five years caused
>> anybody else to change any of their economic opinions?
>> >
>> > John K Clark
>>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> No, certainly not me. Free trade good, UBI bad. As long as there will be
>> human desires, there will be jobs.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
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