Incomes from Perfect Conversations
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now more clear where the level of global production and consumption needs to be set to solve the climate change problem. Everybody has noticed how much better the air is:
An initiative on the environment could be seized by recognizing two connected points:
A much cleaner system of production and consumption could be realized by taking the basic economic factors out of human hands and putting them under the control of machine intelligence and robots;
The humans who would be displaced from the current system by the conversion to robotics could in many cases gain incomes as professional conversationists, and these roles could be expected to develop without limit.
Moving the economic system from one that uses humans to produce and consume things of questionable net value to one that uses AI to produce and help consume things at the right value makes sense, we think, if and only if humans produce and consume value in their conversations, thereby putting the economic system as a whole miraculously into balance.
People should be able to derive real income by interacting satisfyingly and without negative externality with other individuals. Conversation theory and AI, we think, can make this happen.
