[btilly]

Is this really that far more efficient than what humans do today?

A major managerial problem with humans is sorting out our irrational emotional biases and keeping everyone working on something resembling the appointed task. Can you imagine the productivity gain if that problem suddenly went away?

[zentiggr]

So emotions are a problem to be solved and moved past...

I don't want your world. Dystopias suck.

[btilly]

I don't want that world either. But achieving it is a wet dream for a business.

The challenge that Elon Musk et al are warning us about is what role will humans have after we achieve this dystopia.

[AnimalMuppet]

> But achieving it is a wet dream for a business.

I don't know about that. Businesses depend on manipulating our emotions in order to get us to buy stuff.

[btilly]

You can successfully manipulate emotions without having any of your own. Recommendation engines are getting really good at it.

[tome]

But our emotional biases are also what keeps us on the appointed task!