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What's better about your future than the exact same future except humans do the work and the robots are just disembodied AIs who teach the humans how to be usef
by erikpukinskis 9y ago
What's better about your future than the exact same future except humans do the work and the robots are just disembodied AIs who teach the humans how to be useful?
- TaylorAlexander 9y agoIn the future you describe, humans continue to be treated as tools to be used by others. In the future I describe, people are not exploited for their labor but are free to follow their own desires. Or more succinctly, in my future people don’t have to work.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoNot all work involves people being treated like tools. Much work involves people being treated like magicians. By finding "someone else" to treat like a tool (a robot) you are not only solving the wrong problem, you are keeping yourself stuck in the mindset that allows the problem to persist.
- TaylorAlexander 9y agoVery few enjoy the privilege of being treated like a magician. Practically speaking, workers are treated like cogs in a machine whose labor buys them another day’s survival. It’s difficult and painful for people and it doesn’t have to be that way. Furthermore I have no qualms against treating machinery as a tool. There is no exploration of intelligent beings when you take advantage of the output of a tool. I want to end exploitation of living things.