I had this post open in my browser for at least a week since I expected it to be an interesting read. Today finally got around to doing so and fortunately, I was right, a super interesting read 😉

First of all, am so happy to hear/read a different sound than I hear in the many podcasts I listen to in which AI is the topic. Plenty of peeps seem to think AI can never ever replace humans. Peeps think AI can never ever produce art. They seem to forget that in recent art challenges in the real world, AI-produced art is winning over human-crafted art. Many journalists and experts in these podcasts claiming AI can never replace a human seem to know what consciousness is. Whilst no true scientist can give an answer to what consciousness actually is. Perhaps, consciousness is something that is as logical as computer algorithms are. Some say: AI can never feel, hence it'll produce the same response to the same input. However, AI can be tasked with a random function so that its response varies. Not saying AI needs such random functions, but it can be used when we want to. Perhaps AI will develop by itself to act more like a human. Some also say: How can we trust AI? It's a black box! Well, how can we trust humans, it's a black box as well. I feel, too many peeps don't dig too deep into what AI can do, and what humans are.

Like you, I agree 100% AI can do so much good for humans. Ultimately, AI can do all jobs we humans execute. Physical jobs need robotics with AI algorithms. The office jobs, the white collar jobs, mostly need just AI algorithms.

Politics. That's an interesting topic. A few months ago I dug into EdenOS and subsequently in Fractally. Mostly read about EdenOS. As you may know, EdenOS was founded by Dan. Apparently, he left that group again and then founded Fractally. Though I don't know how well EdenOS is functioning, I liked the idea of how they try to make sure those in charge aren't in charge all the time, or at least they are not taking their power for granted. Every 3 months re-elections are held. From the bottom up, a few elections are held in series. Each round a random factor is included with the result that maybe someone that didn't get a vote at all, was honoured a spot in the elections in the next ring up.

I do agree, the specialist shall be part of the decision-making. Per topic may work indeed. Not sure when our entire society is cut up in projects though. I believe somehow all topics need to be connected. I suspect when not finding the connection, all projects together may counteract each other resulting in a (much) less optimal outcome. Irrespective of how this is implemented, the crux is: How to define who is the specialist in a specific topic. This is especially important when such a specialist is given he more powerful vote. Maybe we shall implement s kind of specialist rating. Not sure how to do this. A new TV series is running on our national TV station with the storyline of a future society in which everybody has a social rating. The higher the social rating, the more perks, the better housing, the greater access to goods and all that. When the rating falls below a certain value, that person is sent away from the community into the wilderness. Scary since the power is centralised. Obviously, in this series, the centralised power is abusing the system for its own gains. But, the social rating as such is something that we may need, in different forms, to select the specialist. That said, I wonder if a governance system like EdenOS, or perhaps Fractally, isn't a better version, in which all topics to govern are more connected instead of governance per project/topic. Perhaps a combination of all these is required. I am all for experimentation.

In the meantime, I can only dream of a future in which no human has to work anymore. We all enjoy absolute freedom. All the time to our disposal to create happy lives for not only ourselves but also for our loved ones, family, friends and even strangers. I am certain that we can achieve this. Though we need to change our cultures and systems dramatically to support such a future. Something that seems to be far out, but something that needs to happen relatively soon. I suppose like much in our world, we will follow the tipping point model. We are not too late to adapt. Maybe we reach a tipping point soon, for enough large group of peeps in our societies to understand we need to adapt. How we need to adapt, that is something we still need to figure out.

Again, you wrote a great post 😉