I really like the specification of petrochemicals. Thats make a significant difference. That is awesome, the more places we can cut those industries out the better.

If they were real work to begin with why would you pay for AI to replace them?

Honestly just ban mass investment, mass power consumption and use of information acquired as part of mass survelince, military usage, etc.

Like those are all regulated industries. Idc if someone works on it at home, or even a small DC. AGI that can be democratized isn’t the threat, it’s those determined to make a super weapon for world domination. Those plans need to fucking stop regardless if it’s AGI or not

I’m for it. Tbh I would rather more people opt out of modern tech then try and fail to become ethically engaged in it.

Of course ethical engagement (like the fediverse, self hosting, using opensource, contributing to opensource, supporting community controlled tech projects, etc) is better than that but the harm reduction of addiction, survelince, etc tech is still way better imho