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by prepend
926 days ago
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> We, as a society, have no solution to that. We definitely do, as evidenced by all the jobs that have been automated over the past 100 years and people who are currently employed. It’s not like people who manually harvested crops starved to death after tractors. Over history, automation has always created jobs. Regarding middle class use of robots, I meant that middle classers would chip in and have a neighborhood maidbot. Having 10 households chip in $12.5k every 5 years is definitely doable. And since the robot is automated it could just spend an hour or two a day in each person’s home without any need for intervention. Just walking down the sidewalk between houses doing whatever needs doing. That’s a cool future. |
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No, we don't. That's the hand-waving hope I'm talking about: expecting past performance to guarantee future success.
All of those previous waves of automation involved pretty limited technologies. AI has the potential to be quite different. For instance, if you have an AGI with average human intelligence, and robots doing manual labor, what jobs are all the average-intelligence humans supposed to do? Door-to-door sales to other door-to-door salesmen? If the technology lives up to the hype, their options may be "die homeless" to the more optimistic "be warehoused at minimum cost until natural death."