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With truly advanced multi-purpose robots (like in sci-fi), it would take just one donation of a robot to a charity to start a 'robot self-replication for povert
by SubiculumCode 9y ago
With truly advanced multi-purpose robots (like in sci-fi), it would take just one donation of a robot to a charity to start a 'robot self-replication for poverty movement', where one robot build another with its own labor, doubling, and doubling again, until every down and out has their own pool of robotic laborers.
- bbddg 9y agoThis implies a world with unlimited energy and natural resources?
- SubiculumCode 9y agoI didn't mean to imply doubling forever. Also, yes I assumed that the robot would have to be employed at least initially to earn a wage, so that it could buy materials and components off alibaba.
- bbddg 9y agoHow much do you think raw materials are going to cost in a world with free labor? What's to stop rich people from just buying up all the resources? With free labor they can use as much resources as they get their hands on. There are structural problems in our society that cannot be solved with new technology.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoSpace is big. The asteroid belt plus robotics. There is a lot of energy from the sun. There is a lot of iron.
- bbddg 9y agoFully Automated Space Communism.