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I'm curious about this viewpoint. Do you think it will never happen ever, or just not in the next few decades? If not autonomous vehicles and burger flipping

• Jack000 10y ago
  no op, but personally I think an increase in automation will simply push human endeavours upward in Mazlow's pyramid of needs. ie. prior to the industrial revolution most human activities were related to satisfying our physiological needs. When that was largely automated we worked on increasingly abstract desires (eg. TV/entertainment industry, social media) In a post-robotic world I think we'd focus on more human-centric activities. Eg. what if we had 10x or 100x the number of teachers, and the educational system was more like 1 on 1 tutoring rather than large classrooms. What if food became more like music in that its physical reproduction is automated, but humans are paid to design it. ultimately the luddite argument belies a lack of imagination. Most jobs that humans do today didn't exist 100 years ago. If and when humans truly become redundant in the face of strong AI, there wouldn't be any point in worrying about whether all humans can remain employed.