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Income inequality, labor arbitrage, job loss to industrial automation, exponential increases in the surveillance state, healthcare cost increases, this list cou
by knieveltech 10y ago
Income inequality, labor arbitrage, job loss to industrial automation, exponential increases in the surveillance state, healthcare cost increases, this list could go on indefinitely. Scientists and engineers intentions are largely moot as long as their inventions and innovations are consistently used to further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a vanishingly small minority of the world population.
- ianderf 10y agoYou life in the Middle Ages definitely would have been way much better. /s
- knieveltech 10y agoHow adorable. Any thoughts on events that have occurred in the last 1500 years or so or is that your deal, you just wander in, drop an obtuse one-liner, and then wander off again?
- sangnoir 10y agoDon't get too nostalgic about the middle ages: the landed gentry who will own the AI/fully automated factories will occasionally require mechanical-turk-type work done by the serfs. Which side will you be on when your job gets automated?
- ianderf 10y agoThat's an interesting twist. So my job that requires knowledge and brainwork gets fully automated, but mechanical-turk-type work somehow is not?