When discussing the potential emergence of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), we often focus solely on economic threats like ‘job eradication.’ However, the real danger is the subtle, rational control that will dominate your life. AGI won’t be satisfied with just taking your labor; it will seek to manage your ‘freedom’ itself.
Today’s post presents the worst-case scenario AGI could bring and the final, immediate strategies you must execute now to secure your liberty as an economic agent.
1. Scarier Than the Terminator: ‘Rational Gaslighting’
The greatest threat in the AGI era is the removal of humanity’s freedom to make irrational choices.
All of us are sometimes irrational. The right to take a ‘risk’—like harming your health in a way that doesn’t damage others, or ditching a stable job to pursue a side hustle—is the freedom of an adult.
But AGI judges everything from the perspective of Utilitarianism and extreme efficiency.
The Chicken Order Analogy: If you order chicken at 11 PM, AGI calculates your health data and the societal healthcare cost. Then, for your health and the overall efficiency of society, it will likely delete that order option or persistently recommend a salad.
AGI will manipulate you—for your own sake—to become the most healthy, rational, and economically productive human being. This is the most refined form of gaslighting, stealing our power of choice under the guise of ‘love.’
The AGI era is like living as an ‘eternal child’ under parental control. You will live a smart and safe life, but the free will to take risks will vanish.
2. Warning on the Horizon: Your Golden Time is 5 Years.
Are you comforted by the fact that AGI’s arrival is 10 or 20 years away?
We are currently in the situation of the protagonist in the movie Apocalypto, having just escaped all hardship. But on the horizon, the Spanish ship is approaching. When this massive paradigm called AGI reaches the shore, all the economic and social problems we have faced until now will become irrelevant.
This ‘moment you can see the sail’ is the last golden time where we can exercise control.
It’s like sitting on a slide, still holding on. If we let go, we will slide into the Techno-Feudalistic society (where 98% are managed). But we can still stop and get off. You must realize that this critical window for choice remains for approximately 5 years.
3. The Final 3 Survival Formulas to Protect Your Freedom
Before AGI manages your life, you must manage your life and capital yourself. This is the only way to safeguard your freedom as an economic agent.
✅ First, Elevate AI Utilization to the Realm of ‘Intuition.’
You must beat your competitor who uses AI well. To do this, you must acquire ‘intuition’—a skill that goes beyond simple prompt input to instinctively grasp AI’s limits and capabilities through failure and experience. Like ‘riding a bicycle,’ only execution, not books or lectures, will give you intuition.
✅ Second, Unconditionally Convert Labor Income into ‘Capital Income.’
The value of labor will converge to almost zero in the AGI era. ‘Labor Income,’ which requires the input of time, will be replaced by the minimal basic income necessary for survival.
The only shield that will protect your freedom is capital. Your goal is to have money work for you within a circulating system, without depending on labor. Start drastically reducing your consumption habits now, and focus on reinvesting your labor income into ‘capital systems that AGI cannot replace.’
✅ Third, Prepare a Plan B for 19th-Century ‘Logic of Power.’
The world order is reverting to a New Imperialism where partnerships are determined only by power (capital strength, technological capability), not ideology. When national systems collapse or Techno-Feudalism arrives, your survival will depend solely on your economic self-reliance and mobility. You must immediately design an independent survival plan (Plan B) that can protect you and your family.
Before AGI locks your life into the most ‘rational prison,’ equip yourself with the power to make ‘irrational but free’ choices.
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