At first I figured they were deluding themselves into thinking it would achieve some kind of FALGSC without the GAY or COMMUNISM part. But I don’t really see that, they more just gloat about it doing away with artists and teachers and stuff.
Is their dream just getting to sit on a couch all day hooked up to a VR rig getting pumped full of slop AI porn?
To go a little further, the interlocking set of technologies they’re working towards represent an end for them to problems (real or imagined) like overpopulation, food scarcity, political upheaval, climate change, human rights, land reform and myriad others.
The fly in the ointment is the same one ai adoption in the workplace faces now: it’s too expensive! Oh sure, it’s cheaper to pay some sub-penny per token price to get an answer right now than it is to hire someone to tell you what’s going on even at piece work markets like fiver, but it’s more cheaper over the timespan of a workers life to hire a person than it is to run a dgx. The reason isn’t the pay, it’s that people already exist and in some cases their existence is subsidized by government, charity and their family, friends and neighbors.
Now imagine that dgx but with actuators, lubricants, galvanized structural parts and a flexible injection molded cover! The tco just goes up and up!
It’s also the reason the tech nu rich are allowed in the club, they are building the ark the wealthy intend to sail away from society. Not in a literal sense, like going to mars, but in a metaphorical sense like in that one book where all the worthy people go away to a utopia.
Imagine if, when asked about how to remain safe after the event, rushkoff was able to say “yeah man, just use robot slaves and special unbreakable contracts mediated by a complex system of who has the most money.” That’s the answer they were looking for! And that’s the answer they are building, even without direction from a consultant.