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Good thing is, that once they fully destroy our job, we will have achieved the singularity, and all jobs will be destroyed. Ergo, our jobs will be the last to b
by thomasahle 10y ago
Good thing is, that once they fully destroy our job, we will have achieved the singularity, and all jobs will be destroyed. Ergo, our jobs will be the last to be destroyed ;-)
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- amelius 10y agoMost likely, big corporations will reap the benefits of AI for quite a while before the AI will escape and take over the world. Those CEOs and perhaps a handful of supporting personnel will get paid long after programmers have lost their jobs. Turns out that there wasn't so much room on the shoulders of giants after all.
- whazor 10y agoWell, it might be that the research will be done but the hardware is not strong enough. In that case it could be the people creating (and managing) the hardware.
- visarga 10y agoProbably many unemployed will start farming to earn a living, if they have access to land. That's what's left when all the jobs are gone - the earth will hire you to farm it. Otherwise, unemployed people would have to depend upon state welfare, and that is unreliable. We'll see lots of innovation in the field of self sustainable living.
- joe_the_user 10y agoFarming requires skills, good land and inputs like fertilizer. The homeless in a sad way, go back to human roots and labor as "gathers" but primarily gathering refuse. I see a lot of homelessness now. There is a significant amount of innovation but it remains a miserable, dehumanizing and short existence.
- frik 10y agoYou only need some knowledge and natural seeds. And if you have eg some chicken dung, it works like a natural fertilizer. Gen manipulated seeds from Monsanto are only good for one year and only work with fertilizer.
- tangled_zans 10y agoThat is such a messed up and privileged attitude. "Homelessness isn't a problem, you just need some seeds. Ergo if the homeless are starving they must be too lazy or maybe they spend all their money on drugs so they can't even afford a few seeds!" Try being homeless, then go back and tell us how "easy" it is. (Speaking as someone who has been homeless before).
- frik 10y agoCome on, I answered to the first sentence: "Farming requires skills, good land and inputs like fertilizer." Not about homelessness at all.
- morgante 10y agoI don't understand this attitude at all. People don't magically turn to farming when they lose their jobs. It requires land, skill, and capital. When we reach mass unemployment, we'll either have to provide for everyone or have a revolution.
- tashi 10y agoThere's also a more dystopian option (see Neuromancer or Elysium for examples): as the rich get richer they get more isolated from, and less empathetic towards, the poor. They control the information and the advanced military technology making a revolution impossible to organize, let alone win. They have long and prosperous lives on or above all the good land while everyone else is left behind in cities of rubble to fight over scraps. To me, this seems like the default future if we don't actively prevent it.
- jtolmar 10y agoThat's only really true if you're an AI researcher. You could automate away enterprise bucket-brigade code and web-based CRUD apps and destroy an awful lot of programming jobs with no singularity.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoWho says automating away jobs has to look like AI? I'm pretty sure libraries like Rails, React, etc have "automated" quite a few jobs away.
- markkanof 10y agoI don't think any of those libraries are sophisticated enough to have automated away any significant number of programming jobs. They just increase productivity an incremental amount which in turns increases user's expectations about what software can be and thus creates additional work that makes up for or even exceeds the initial amount of work required.