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Because the current technological quest is, by definition, to build machines that cover any residual advantage human beings had on machines. In essence, the goa
by Udik 10y ago
Because the current technological quest is, by definition, to build machines that cover any residual advantage human beings had on machines. In essence, the goal is to produce human beings - at least as far as working abilities are concerned - extremely cheap and infinitely available.
- riffraff 10y agoBut this has always been the quest, agriculture went from 80% of the workforce to 4% as productivity increased EDIT: sorry sent too early ...what changes is the "residual advantage". Until some time ago we assumed machines would only replace people in simple tasks (e.g. mill). Than only repetitive, "mechanic" tasks (i.e. assembly line). Now we realize they can replace in tasks which require some intelligence (i.e. self driving cars) but still assume they won't replace us in some "smarter" jobs. It looks to me like each step is just incremental, I don't see the "tipping" point.