I'm pretty sure AI might make a better parent than some abusive assholes.

But after the rich got it, it wouldn’t be profitable to the owner of the immortality pill to wait for the 99% of humanity to get rich somehow. Thus, the price will be in the equilibrium of lowest possible to be able to be paid by the most amount of people, and most expensive possible so that you earn the highest amount of money. So, much more people than just the rich.

This is why I'm excited about automation. The other person who posted is right about people not wanting to give up their influence, but I think the body politick will push back when the time comes.

The problem is the speed of success. Automation is faster than creating new jobs

Business is already at max throttle automating anything that can be automated. I am in factory automation and our current project reduces manpower from 7 to 3 on an agricultural process.

Let's not forget how willing management is to tip the apple cart, if they get to keep more apples to themselves. They will view white collar the same way they view blue collar: an expense to be minimized.

UBI is the worst idea. Not only it's impossible in nations type of society, it will also create Feudalism.

So strictly no. People need jobs, a good one, to have independence. Otherwise it will go back to "who is stronger and has more guns"

New thyroid that can make me lose weight? Sign me up!

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Will humans evolve? If no, then no.

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Holographic screens that project into the air. You’ll wear them like a watch with wireless headphones for audio (unless you have audio implants of course)

There are easy solutions: Tax automation or significantly increased corporate taxes.

Use the money to pay for a UBI and work-substitution offers (Star-Trek-like research and exploration agency, "playgrounds" for adults (e.g. tech garages), community meet-up areas, voluntary work opportunities (e.g. taking animals for a walk, preparing and offering food, tutoring, ...), etc.

With all the improvements in AI, the only thing that stands between us and utopia is society.

In this domain the most exciting thing is neuromapping as it is the only thing which can bring us close to immortality. In my religion we believe that the soul is our conscious mind,as long as the brain is working we are alive. If we map our brain to a droid we are practically immortal as our consciousness is in a near immortal body

Well, except that labour makes new resources accessible. Such as installing solar panels or mining astroids.

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Compute is a major problem for inverse lithography / curvilinear masks. If this is solved, it not just speeding up mask production but enabling much broader use of the technology.

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Way I see it, an AI is much less likely to wipe itself out long term

Suure, maybe it'll take us out on the way but its better one form of consciousness exists to go on and explore the universe. Way we're going and we'll probably be back to stone age tribes fighting over nuclear craters within a century or two.

All hail our AI overlords

The AI religious zealots will start grouping up soon. I've read enough scifi to know, people always go off the deep end. They will probably be more dangerous than AI...

Here's a great idea. Let's make AI into teachers and caregivers for all our children. I'm sure that generation will be the best. /s

That isn't correct under capitalism. Under capitalism someone can own land/resources and contribute zero Labor and still take profits from it. On a simple scale Imagine a farm or property owner who employs a manager to manage the entire property and just sits on his butt all day.

Under capitalism its very clear no matter how efficient production gets ownership of resources/land will make sure we don't live in some post scarcity utopia.

if replacing headlights meant having to open up someones chest and rip open their rib cage, they'd probably make them a bit more durable.