Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
Physical Culture Podcast
Episode 001 — 2024.0329
intended topic / conversation outline:
- Human Advocacy / Humans First
- how AI changes things:
- primarily : “job displacement”
- aka unemployment
- 0-10 year event horizon to 30% unemployment
- what has to happen next
- wealth redistribution
- granted (govt) or taken (revolution)
- civil unrest
- UBI
- how this might work
- caveats
- wealth redistribution
- once we have:
- basic needs met
- UBI
- substantial unemployment…
- this forces the QUESTION:
- what is your purpose?
- why are you alive on planet earth?
- Two vectors:
- to drown in the addictions
- drugs, alcohol
- social media, videogames
- sex, gambling
- to rise to the highest human
- living ON PURPOSE
- authentic relationships
- to drown in the addictions
- put another way:
- Who is your God?
- is it the idols of addictive black mirror pleasure
- or is it love?
- two results of superpowerful AI / AGI
- concentration of power to global megacorps and capitalist interests
- for these, humans are merely slaves
- the only purpose is to take human money and
move it into corporate coffers
- democratization of power
- for humans, they can get local / open source versions
of the AIs to run on their own phones, watches, and laptops - and humans (individuals and communities)
can USE it as personal force amplifiers
- for humans, they can get local / open source versions
- concentration of power to global megacorps and capitalist interests