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Okay, so one activity that is undergoing significant automation is flying jetliners. ADS-B is mandated like in a year or two. This is for safety reasons. That

Okay, so one activity that is undergoing significant automation is flying jetliners. ADS-B is mandated like in a year or two. This is for safety reasons. That happens to be one case where quality prevents really unfortunate outcomes ( an air crash ) but there's no way to take the side of pilots in this argument. That is why you automate. You automate to improve repeatability of production. If the humans are breaking things - including themselves or other humans - then it is immoral to oppose it, regardless of how it affects our accounting and economic assumptions. This also leaves craftspeople to make numismatically interesting objects, which is a Big Thing - look at Etsy. I like the way it is blurbed in Tyler Cowen's latest book "The Complacent Class": https://www.amazon.com/Complacent-Class-Self-Defeating-Quest-American/dp/1250108691 https://www.amazon.com/Complacent-Class-Self-Defeating-Quest... "The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist and best selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition―we’re working harder than ever to avoid change. We're moving residences less, marrying people more like ourselves and choosing our music and our mates based on algorithms that wall us off from anything that might be too new or too different. Match.com matches us in love. Spotify and Pandora match us in music. Facebook matches us to just about everything else."

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
As opposed to? The way people used to marry? From their own church and neighborhood? I think this is a case of over-glorifying 'the good old days'
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  Of my own family, about 3 out of... 20(?) couples met locally. That was a big source of diversity. Match.com is a big source of indiversity. If you both line up on an ideological scale, live next to people who have that ideology, pretty soon you forget how to think. Now you have to deal with these people at work. That's one example from a list of examples. People live in bubbles to the point to where I see people in real anguish over who gets elected. And WRT marriage- oh hell yes. I have access to a behavioral ecologist, and she can tell you how pernicious all this is. The easy story is haemophilia in the royal lines in European history. This will be hard on our genetic ( and mental ) diversity. She calls it "electing the President based on a multiple-choice test" for one thing. But it's really more about people living in cognitive bubbles, which makes their thinking hidebound, it makes risks seem larger than they are and it stifles the culture. Throw in a rising Mandarinism - that which is not required is forbidden, and that which is not forbidden is required - and we'll see.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago

As opposed to? The way people used to marry? From their own church and neighborhood? I think this is a case of over-glorifying 'the good old days'

ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Of my own family, about 3 out of... 20(?) couples met locally. That was a big source of diversity. Match.com is a big source of indiversity. If you both line up on an ideological scale, live next to people who have that ideology, pretty soon you forget how to think. Now you have to deal with these people at work. That's one example from a list of examples. People live in bubbles to the point to where I see people in real anguish over who gets elected. And WRT marriage- oh hell yes. I have access to a behavioral ecologist, and she can tell you how pernicious all this is. The easy story is haemophilia in the royal lines in European history. This will be hard on our genetic ( and mental ) diversity. She calls it "electing the President based on a multiple-choice test" for one thing. But it's really more about people living in cognitive bubbles, which makes their thinking hidebound, it makes risks seem larger than they are and it stifles the culture. Throw in a rising Mandarinism - that which is not required is forbidden, and that which is not forbidden is required - and we'll see.