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
• 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
• 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