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by gwbas1c 181 days ago
> The problem is that for the vast majority of people to be psychologically healthy they must have a job. This isn't a societal decision, it's a reality about how humans are.

The "job" can be things like volunteering, artwork, finding a cause, inventing, raising children, teaching...

Work can be subsidized and based around personal interest and achieve the "psychologically healthy" aspect that you describe.
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ori_b 180 days ago
> volunteering

Sure, I guess -- if you're not charging for your time, it's more efficient to use human labor than AI+robots.

> inventing

If we get working AI, humans will be unemployable at inventing useful things.

> teaching

There are already multiple startups trying to replace teachers in the classroom.

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tredre3 180 days ago
> If we get working AI, humans will be unemployable at inventing useful things.

The point you're responding to is that humans would be able to do it for personal fulfillment and thus preserve their mental health, not to be useful to someone else.

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ori_b 180 days ago
Yeah. I also hope the AI remembers to flick the bundle of feathers on a stick to entertain me, and fill the food bowl when I'm hungry.
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9rx 181 days ago
> inventing

When they used to say that you'd make more money going to university, that is what they were talking about. The idea was that if you went into the research labs you'd develop capital to multiply human output, which is how you make more money. Most ended up confusing the messaging with "go to university to get a job — the same job you would have done anyway..." and incomes have held stagnant as a result. It was an interesting dream, though.

But not really what everyday normal people want. They like to have somewhere they can show up to and be told what to do, so to speak.

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