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On what basis can you make that claim?I'm asserting, as I said, that your scenario was Science Fiction and would not happen.
Please find an editor and stop assuming you're talking to people who know nothing.You're being silly to suggest that means all Sci-Fi is therefore impossible, given Sci-Fi is a very broad genre, given I didn't say that. I'm sure there's a neat term to describe people who exaggerate their opponent's argument in a discussion in order to try and make them sound unrealistic. Also, 1984 is not North Korea and was written in the fall-out from WWII when zones of control were being divvied up by the Allies, and when propaganda, surveillance, militarism, etc. had all been in full force throughout the war. It is also heavily influenced by the Russian novel We written after the Communist revolution there. It's ideas bring together most of those concepts with a some exaggeration.
The demise and increasing rates of death through despair in the working class of the US among other things that demonstrate a sharp negative turn for those at the front line of accelerating capitalism.Real life scenarios inspired books like these and those real life things still happen in part. Real life, both past and present, is a very good indicator of how things will happen in real life. Where are the real life examples that feed into your widespread dystopian scenario?
No it isn't.The greatest flaw IMO in your and/or the author's scenario is that technological change is gradual.
Act how?There is zero reason to think huge swathes of under-employed people would not act as technology gradually pushed more and more people out of meaningful work.
This is actually exactly how humans behave. Whenever a significantly advanced society encounters a lesser society, the lesser society ends up being exterminated. The pre-Industrial revolution Europeans extinguished every hunter gatherer society they encountered and the subsequent Industrialised societies of the 19th century continued that pattern. There is also accumulated archaeological evidence that the first Agriculural Revolution spurred the development of war and the invention of slavery.This is not the way humans behave. And of course rich people are humans too, and are not going to want to persecute billions of people, nor enjoy living in comfort in the knowledge that billions of people out there would love to kill them if only they could get past Skynet or whatever you're imagining. It's Science Fiction and can be enjoyed as such - apocryphal warnings and all.
If your belief is that the AI revolution will be a continuation of the Industrial Revolution and societies structures will continue as normal, then you're going against a lot of academic thought that suggests instead this will more closely resemble a phase shift like the development of agriculture or the Industrial revolution, which had severe consequences for those peoples that were ill prepared for it.
Is it your contention that we have reached the end of history and that the status quo will continue indefinitely?Oh, and the joy people get from Sci-Fi is the same reason the internet is full of people spreading conspiracy theories or trying to suggest the world is getting darker and darker. We like grand stories. But it is entertainment. Real life is different.