We already have that abundance. It’s just waiting to be liberated.
The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day
deregulated capitalism is a curse on society
We can already create enough abondance that no human starves, sleep outside or can’t affotd medical treatment. Still look at the world.
Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there’s no money in abundance, it’s the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.
Food isn’t the only resource in the equation. Most of the resources are limited and even diminishing.
I agree but I think their point was more along the lines of “Even if we have complete abundance of everything (as in, the capabilities to produce anything in abundance), capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply to continue profiting off of the workers. For example, look at the food abundance we have”
capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply
I think it’s not that, but just:
capitalists won’t spend their money to create logistical chains for free.
“Collect and distribute supply” won’t do itself, someone should do that. And noone will do that for free
Have you read Ishmael?
Approximately 1/3 of all food produced is wasted.
The first paragraph? Can’t say I disagree.
Second paragraph? Delusional. Or actively deceitful. Given Altman’s background, I’m leaning toward the second.
We already have abundance at scale; the rest is just greed and logistics
Cure all human disease?
Paragraphs are bodies of text. So the second paragraph in this scenario is the one where we are only a few breakthroughs away.
Words are a series of letters.
He agrees that we can cure all human disease? That’s silly.
I feel like AGI might be the furthest away of all those things.
Well, I am convinced we currently have no idea how an AGI could be made. It shouldn’t be a HW issue since it is possible to have a human brain worth of computing power in a small cluster. So it could be near impossible or we may be one great shower thought away, there is no way to know.
An issue with this tweet is that we already have the capacity to do a lot. We have the technology to provide healthy and diverse diets for the entire planet and fit a cities worth of farming inside a few city blocks (vertical hydroponics/aeroponics). We have the ability to create electricity in a dozen different renewable ways. We have the ability to desalinate water creating nearly infinite fresh water, we have enough square footage in the world to easily house everyone. We have stellar education systems that we could hand out to the entire world.
Why don’t we do it? Well, all these things cost money. But the issue is, there also exists staggering amounts of money across the world. The panama papers revealed just a fraction of the wealth being hoarded by just a fraction of the wealthiest people in the world (and most implicated in the panema papers weren’t even too crazy, like soccer stars and business owners). There’s exists tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth created by the world just floating around in billionaires bank accounts and in the coffers of world powers.
So it’s not an issue of abundance coming in the near future, we have it here on earth right now.
exactly.
many of the mundane atrocities being committed every day are deliberate choices in service of capital rather than people.
you know, health insurance companies, etc.
Every rich tech bro has convince themselves they are the savior of the world.
It’s true—for a very exclusive interpretation of “we”.
Great… And and will this abundance be shared or hoarded for profit like everything else that is abundant already is?
Yes
If we means the human race, it’s absolutely true. There’s just no mention of a timeline.
Sure. Just need to get a bunch of trillions hoarded away by billionaires and throw it at R&D to solve these problems and I bet it would happen.
These rich fuckers making proclamations like that yet somehow still expecting someone else to pay for the solutions.
Just put it in chatgpt I’m sure it will figure it all out
Marketing…
Opium.
I gotta find a way to filter out techbros from my feed.
