Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently, and they discussed artificial intelligence. Both agreed that AI was likely to destroy jobs, and lots of them. Musk posited that while it was likely AI would eliminate most jobs, those with the most tangible elements, i.e., plumbers, electricians, farmers, etc., would be more slowly affected than the rest.

They talked about the potential need for a UBI or a Universal Basic Income. And about AI and robots doing basically everything, reducing the cost of everything to pennies on the dollar, and humans being able to live lives of unprecedented luxury. And they talked about the possibility of work eventually being eliminated, there being “sustainable abundance,” and everyone having a “universal high income.”

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To both, this was a mostly good thing, although Musk noted that that is but one potentially good outcome, and there are other, far darker possibilities that exist, such as the Terminator scenario.

Rogan posited that people would need to find their purpose, while Musk discussed the need to find meaning.

Both seem to believe that AI creating unprecedented prosperity would be a good thing, referring to it as “A benign solution” and the “best movie ending.” Rogan talked about a world where one wouldn’t have to work to survive. People, he said, would need to find

Purpose... Find things that you do that you enjoy... There’s a lot of people who are independently wealthy that spend most of their time doing something they enjoy. And that could be the majority of people.

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But we’d have to rewire how people approach life. Which seems to be, like acceptable, because you’re not asking them to be enslaved;........

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