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I always viewed the singularity-utopia / terminator-dystopia with a certain disbelief. In the end what drives all the progress and innovation is the demand. The
by woodpanel 8y ago
I always viewed the singularity-utopia / terminator-dystopia with a certain disbelief. In the end what drives all the progress and innovation is the demand. There will be new demands once the old ones are met.
Saddlers, Water-Carriers, Coal delivery men all went out of business, but productivity, income, quality of life is up compared to then and no one wants to have those jobs back.
Disruption will occur, but most of humanity will profit. If you want to help, concentrate on helping those that need to make a transition, instead of spreading fear of progress. Because then you'll just increase the amount of people in need to transition and reduce the available capital to help them out.
- ManlyBread 8y agoThe problem with this line of thinking is that the cost of the transition is pushed onto the employee. Automation is a huge gain for the company while the employees whose work got automated need to pick up new skills themselves on their own time and cost. No one in their right mind wants to spend their senior years getting retrained and then having to compete with new grads. Ask yourself - would your boss be willing to hire a 60 year old programmer that spend most of his life doing something completely unrelated?
- vlehto 8y agoProblem with that line of thinking is that it doesn't seem to lead to anywhere. Or am I missing something?
- elocinstr8t 8y agoI'm okay with the singularity as well, though I gotta admit I have some reservations about it. Like, what if I get sacked because AI is taking over? Yes, they said AI could boost employment and will create new jobs but what if it doesn't? It will create unemployment problems for sure and when it does, other problems might follow.