‘The
Elon Musk
Singularity’
[and
Equitism].
GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
Elon Musk has stated,
recently, that the extraordinary productivity of emerging android robot
workers, equipped with AI minds, will be so great as to make possible,
and, likely, to make necessary, for human-social survival, a
society no longer based, primarily, on the social relations of social
reproduction known as wagéd-labor and salaried labor.
From a non-Marxist [non-Leninoid], Marxian
view, the historically rapid irruption of such robotic worker technologies
constitutes, at least initially, the advent of a new, hyper-productive form of fixed
capital, which, due both to its expected magnitude of productivity
increase, and its historical sudden-ness of irruption, will cause a profound
change in the presently-prevailing, predominant social relation of social
reproduction, i.e., the capital/wage-labor relation, that is, will cause a
social revolution, e.g., a ‘metafinite singularity’ that transforms the social
relations of production beyond the capital-relation.
Such a social-relations
revolution does not necessarily mean “blood in the
streets” – an outcome more conducive to ‘“the mutual ruin of the contending
classes”’ than to the self-«aufheben» transition into a new, higher
successor system to the capitalist system, and to the resulting ‘Global
Renaissance’, that such a transition promises.
But it does mean a profound transformation of the basic social relations
of our contemporary society.
Remember what Marx wrote, in Capital
III, about the kind of upsurge/acceleration in the ‘societal
self-reproductive self-force’ that we are just beginning to witness:
“A development of the productive forces which would
diminish the absolute number of labourers, i.e., enable the entire nation to
accomplish its total production in a shorter time span [M.D.: i.e., in a shorter span of aggregate human
labor time], would cause a revolution,
because it would put the bulk of the population out of the running.” [Capital, volume
III, Part III, Chapter XV, IV.
Supplementary Remarks].
Elon Musk proposes that
direct payments from governments to robotic-production-induced unemployed human
former workers is the solution.
He expects that the
productivity surge due to android robotics will be so colossal that the
oft-cited “Guaranteed Minimum Income” reform is not
what the AI-robotization of production promises.
Rather, Musk holds, it
promises a “Guaranteed HIGH Income” reform.
Note, at this point, that
what we call ‘The Elon Musk Singularity’, though related to, is not
identical with, the earlier widely propounded, Ray Kurzweil “[Technological] Singularity”,
which Kurzweil predicted will occur in 2045, as the “point” at which machine
intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
In Marxian terms, by multiplying the classic Marxian profit-rate formula, s’/(c + v), by 1 in the form of ((1/v)/(1/v)), yielding –
(s’/v)/( (c/v) + 1)
– with v
denoting the production-cost of wage-labor, and taking the limit of the latter
expression as v à 0, we
obtain the “infinities-involving”, purely-quantitative, divisions-by-zero “singularity”:
Limvà0((s’/v)/( (c/v) + 1 )) =
((s’/0)/( (c/0) + 1)
) “=” ¥/¥.
That, in Marxian terms, is
‘The Elon Musk Singularity’.
However, any “v = 0”
scenario for our impending robotized economy is misleading. Even if the final stages of the production
supply chain for many products were to become “fully-automated”, devoid of
human workers – still a big stretch of the imagination – there will still be
earlier links in that chain were some human work, at least of planning,
supervision, checking and coordination, will still be required. Note also that the products of such
production chains will not be costless, worth only, e.g., $0.
Even if (s’/( c + v))
becomes ‘v-less’ at many links in that chain, there will still be, e.g.,
materials-costs and plant/equipment “wear-and-tear” depreciation costs, c,
in those links’ (s’/c) profit-rate, albeit that classic Marxian s’
would dwindle.
Even given prevalent
AI-robotized production, some residual human labor costs must remain for
the foreseeable future. Even if the
human costs of production of the legacy c are all eventually worn out,
even given robots building robots [robotic self-reproduction], and
robots producing the raw materials of production and the non-android machinery
of production, etc., for the reasons given above, v will not
reach absolute 0: no “singularity” involving “infinite” quantities will
arise. But a ‘metafinite
socio-politico-economic singularity’ will arise from such a degree of
robotization of social production.
We think that
Elon Musk’s ‘“direct payments from government to robotically-unemployed
citizens”’ needs to be institutionalized, as a constitutional human right and
property right.
We think that
the Seldonian model of ‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’ provides a
direct way to do accomplish that, via the interconnection of two of its three
new, key All-Citizen Equities – ‘Citizen Birthright Equities’ and ‘Citizen
Stewardship Equities’.
The ‘Citizen Birthright
Equity’ Social Trust Funds could be set up so as to deliver ‘‘‘dividends’’’,
e.g., monthly, to, at least, on an emergency basis, all robotically-unemployed
Citizens, as a result of their ‘Birthright Equity’ equal ‘‘‘shares’’’ in
socialized production. Initially, this
would mean equity-stock shares in the “public sector” of socialized production’s
profits, while the ‘Citizen Stewardship Equity’ sector of socialized production
is still in its infancy.
‘Citizen Stewardship Equity
socialized producers’ cooperatives’ are formed when qualifying ‘Citizen
Stewards’ Collectives’ are granted means of production to fulfill their
underwritten business plans, by their underwriting, competing Social Bank(s),
in return for a monthly ‘Social Rent’ on those social-property means of
production, paid from their earnings in market competition with other ‘Stewardship
Cooperatives’ in their field, and with remaining capital-equity enterprises in
their field.
Given the expansion of that
new, ‘Stewardship Equity’, ‘socialized producers’ cooperatives’ sector of the
economy, the ‘Citizen Birthright Equity Shares’ dividends would increasingly be
paid to Citizens from out of the ‘Stewardship Equity’ sector’s ‘Social Rents’.
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Miguel
Detonacciones,
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