[raytopia]

I'd be interested.

Most likey you'd see a lot of people saying that somehow getting rid of voice actors is good for "progress". Whatever that means.

Random aside someone really needs to make a hackernews that focuses more on game development and other arts so blog posts like your talking about would have a proper community to discuss them with.

[Legend2440]

Replacing voice actors with text-to-speech is good because it lets you do things voice actors can't:

* Create dynamic new voice lines at runtime, for example game characters reacting to new situations.

* Operate at a scale that's infeasible for humans, for example turning every ebook into an audiobook.

[JohnFen]

Which are, in my view, really minor advantages when compared to the disadvantages. Not only in terms of putting people out of work, but in terms of increasing the artifice of the world around us and decreasing its humanity.

[Legend2440]

"putting people out of work" by automating jobs is also a good thing.

The amount of stuff humans can accomplish is strongly limited by the supply of workers. Automating one job frees them up to do other things.

[JohnFen]

> "putting people out of work" by automating jobs is also a good thing

Unless you're one of the people out of work. And even if you don't care anything about them, if there's enough of them then the resulting unrest will be your problem anyway.

[cm2012]

There's little nothing more important to the happiness of humanity than increased productivity per capita. That sounds crazy but when you think about it it's true.

[Koffiepoeder]

Well, this is a very one sided view on the world I'd say. From personal experience, I can surely tell you that I was much happier in countries where productivity was lower. The people there are just so much more pure of heart.

[cm2012]

It's fine to visit, but in every measure of happiness people in poor countries are more lonely and report worse life satisfaction.

[JohnFen]

> That sounds crazy but when you think about it it's true.

I've thought a lot about it, and I don't think it's true.