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by lm28469 2690 days ago
What would be the end goal of such a system ?

Looks to me like a rat race.
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2019ideas 2690 days ago
Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...
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lm28469 2690 days ago
That's an honourable goal but automation was supposed to deliver* us in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s etc ....

It never happened and will never happen with the current world economy. These things are mutually exclusive.

https://hbr.org/2016/02/todays-automation-anxiety-was-alive-...

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n3/hong.html

https://timeline.com/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all-the-...

* or destroy, depending on who you listen to

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pixl97 2690 days ago
Only if there is a taxation function that takes money from the top and distributes it, which gets derided as full on communism on HN. One of the big issues with automation is it tends to concentrate wealth with a few big players
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