Problem 1. If you're arguing with an AI, you already have a psychosis. There's no point in arguing with it. If you get mad that it's "lying", the problem isn't its ethics it's that you already lost touch with reality. You may as well be arguing with a door to try to get it to open...
Problem 2. Slothsurf may be a joke product made as a journalism project, but people really do stuff like this and I think they miss out on this fact: Slothsurf is a pre-pivot idea. It's too stupid to have any value in the real world, but if you really try to build it yourself you may, during the process, discover how to build something that is worth building that nobody else has built. Not if you truly view Slothsurf as the target to the extent that you would never pivot, of course. With all AI employees there would be no point to pivoting because you never learned anything or created any kind of expertise or insight that would carry you through a successful pivot. You'd just start over from scratch. Back to square 1. But the good news is that you never really left square one anyway ; )
If the money holders no longer need plebs for anything because AIs can do it all, what role do the plebs play? Why give them any of the money, and therefore what value has money?
Are they reduced to say gladiators and pornstars, observed for entertainment by the AI-owning class, in exchange for enough food to live
That's where we are getting, but what people, especially on the top don't want to see. If nobody makes money, except selected few, who does the capitalism then?
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