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Bonus #79 - Grimes is Obsessed with A.I. (Extra Dose)

🕑 Added 2021-07-20 16:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Max LePage

The plot of her new album or whatever literally sounds like the concept of blade runner but ~edgier~

Adam Buckley

Yeah I don't think she knows. Just "A.I. would do the farming!" with no real thoughts or plans after that. She's from Vancouver, her parents are both very white-collar, and then she lived in California, and now presumably Austin, Texas? So I assume she's maybe driven by a farm once or twice, but I can't imagine she would have any idea what goes into working on one. But I also don't know why, in her idea of communism, everyone's forced to farm? Like does she think the Soviets all worked on farms and that was the only available job? It was "farmer" or "government worker who tells regular people to go work on the farms"? Now obviously the Soviet system was highly HIGHLY flawed, but that brings us to her only point that could have made sense and should have been more elaborated on... the biggest hurdle to communism working isn't "if the tractors run on their own", it's the massive corruption that comes with allowing a small handful of humans or just one human to be in charge.

Leftleg Rightarm

I don’t even understand what she means by automized farming. If you have the money you can already buy combines and seeders with satellite gps programability, where you just have to sit there while it works. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to preform maintenance, haul product, work fields etc..

(Shenanigans)

Matthew

AI won't bring about a communist Utopia. All that will really happen is people like her (rich elitist) will get even wealthier and continue to make sure everyone else is caught up in fabricated problems created by misleading statistics while they rocket to mars and probably nuke Earth from orbit because they don't need us peasant scum anymore.

Adam Buckley

Yeah there is going to come a time where the world is going to have to either intentionally handcuff innovation, OR force the rich to pay for the poor. If there are no jobs because computers and machines can basically do everything, and the only jobs left are very high level programming (and of course the owners of those companies) someone's going to have to figure out what to do with, say, 150 million people who don't have jobs in the USA. You either let them starve (and see what happens when they riot) or keep them placated with some level of quality of life.

Jonathan Koczkodan

I wonder if Grimes is aware that AI would probably make the money equality issue worse. The people who own and contract out the robots and AI would be rolling in dough, and the people it replaces would be jobless. One of the biggest issues that my economics professor brought up about the new wave of automation is that unlike previous leaps in automation, AI may not actually bring about more jobs than it removes.

Adam Buckley

Haha yeah I really like that as my Elon voice... I can't really do his accent (as if that's ever stopped me from trying, see: every time I do a British or Aussie accent) but the sort of "bored, sounds like he's reading every word that comes out of his mouth" voice for him I think works as a caricature.

Ash Archer

That Manika flashback 🤣🤣🤣

Kar Fleming

How much do I have to pledge on patron for you to do a video just making fun of Elon and Grimes using that Elon voice? Not the whole time obviously but you get what I’m saying.