Our post AGI future is a walk in the park

Our post AGI future is a walk in the park

The timeline of AI to non-AI via AI

Let me take you through the steps whereby we get to our new reality.

1. AGI and UBI

2. Recreation and resource pressure.

3. Desire for greater income.

4. Only 'personal marketing' avaliable as a job.

5. Backlash against personal marketing means personal marketing abstracted by algorithmic rewards.

6. Rewarding of people in public spaces where they can interact and be influenced.

7. Structures set up in public spaces so that people can interact more effectively

8. Structures become formalised as simulations of previous structures such as shops, offices and, workshops.

9. People interact daily in such a situation before going home to technologically advanced escapist homes.

10. People complain about their hardships in life as ever before.


1. AGI and UBI

Simply put, there is AGI and the government responds by implementing a Universal Basic Income, as indeed they must if they don't want mass societal breakdown.

2. Recreation and resource pressure

With a UBI people don't have to work and yet get the same access to goods and services as now.  The only problem is that they now they demand more resources for recreation and travel, however there is a great environmental cost to providing these resources and an understanding to not put further pressure on the environment.  Also people demand social status because they have no way to differentiate themselves from anyone else.  Sexual selection demands that some people have more resource allocation than others.

3. Desire for greater income

People look for other income opportunities beyond that which the UBI provides but with the value of human labour having dropped to zero the only things that can provide income are things that only humans can do.  People can sell their private data for extra money but so can anyone else.

4. Only 'personal marketing' avaliable as a job

The only remaining job avaliable on a wide scale would be 'personal marketing' i.e leveraging personal relationships for money, as well as leveraging being a human to market in a way that robots legally couldn't, such as bothering people on the street or in their homes.

5. Backlash against personal marketing means personal marketing abstracted by algorithmic rewards.

With the massive growth in personal marketing would come a backlash as people wouldn't want people close to them trying to sell them things all the time. So companies instead algorithmically reward people for certain actions in their personal lives and people don't even know what the specific actions are until after they have performed them and they may not be repeatable to get the same reward again.  To some extent this will be simply companies buying customers but more importantly they can aim to change people's behaviours to make them more appealing to people than then therefore have people more influenced generally by them.

6. Rewarding of people in public spaces where they can interact and be influenced.

From the point of view of people in public spaces is another thing where it's the only thing left.  There is no online because it's dead internet by being filled with bots and simulated people.  Real people can't be simulated in the real world (yet).  This means that the public domain becomes all.  So that means people hanging out in public spaces in order to generate income by indirect algorithmically prompted actions amongst each other.

7. Structures set up in public spaces so that people can interact more effectively.  

People might congregate in a park for instance and hang out while engaging in recreational activities.  Because of the number of people doing this it would soon be decided to construct buildings and areas to make people more comfortable in these areas.  The structures could soon reach the scale of villages and towns and of course certain people would be given rights of domain over certain spaces and areas.

8. Structures become formalised as simulations of previous structures such as shops, offices and, workshops.

Within these public areas which everyone is allowed access to, people would begin to operate enterprises seperate from the formal economy and differing by being provided by humans acting symbolically as opposed to realistically.  For instance shops, cafes and restaurants on private property would be fully staffed by robots and provide high quality services at low cost, but these informal affairs would be staffed by humans who would enact service roles without the quality of the goods and services being important, but rather in order for people to gain credits in their accounts from various major corporations that exist in the formal economy.

9. People interact daily in such a situation before going home to technologically advanced escapist homes.

This becomes the pattern of people's every day life, going out each day to interact in these new enterprises.  People running them complain that they "just can't get good staff".  In people's homes they live in opulent and technologically advanced surroundings but people complain that they are never there to enjoy them due to the demands of work.

10. People complain about their hardships in life as ever before.

Eventually it gets to the point where the new informal structures are institutionalised to the extent that people forget that they ever had free time and all their basic needs taken care of.  Interacting in the new economy becomes a rat race of never-ending demands with a lot less leisure time than people would like.  Parents say that their children need to get a good education in order to be able to get ahead in the modern world and be hired by the new class of entrepreneurs in a good role like management and leadership.