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It should console you that you're only getting downvoted because you don't have more prominence. If you did, you'd at least get ignored. > The frightening coin

It should console you that you're only getting downvoted because you don't have more prominence. If you did, you'd at least get ignored. > The frightening coincidence of the modern population explosion with the discovery of technical devices that, through automation, will make large sections of the population 'superfluous' even in terms of labor, and that, through nuclear energy, make it possible to deal with this twofold threat by the use of instruments beside which Hitler's gassing installations look like an evil child's fumbling toys, should be enough to make us tremble. -- Hannah Arendt > If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality. -- Stephen Hawking, https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama_series_stephen_hawking_ama_answers/cvsdmkv https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama...

pygy_ 8y ago
Thanks, I know. I'm not too worried about HN karma. Also, I don't such a thing to happen. The minute a subset of the economy can work in an automated closed loop (because automation is cheaper than the cheapest human labor), it won't have any economic incentive to do commerce with us, and will instead compete for resources. Why would it compete? Survival bias. It will have grown in a capitalist framework where weaker, non-competitive players die or are absorbed, and will embody those principles. La pluie, ça nous mouille et la rouille, ça nous nuit Règlons, nom d'un ours, le problème à la source L'ennui c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos roues dentées, c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos clous Les tas de viande ils fontt peine à voir ils glandouillent du matin au soir et ils n'ont plus aucun pouvoir y'a plus à s'en soucier Les tas de viande ils sont moins malins que le robinet de la salle de bain du coup ils nous servent plus à rien on peut les oublier... L'ennui c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos roues dentées, c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos clous

pygy_ 8y ago

Thanks, I know. I'm not too worried about HN karma. Also, I don't such a thing to happen. The minute a subset of the economy can work in an automated closed loop (because automation is cheaper than the cheapest human labor), it won't have any economic incentive to do commerce with us, and will instead compete for resources. Why would it compete? Survival bias. It will have grown in a capitalist framework where weaker, non-competitive players die or are absorbed, and will embody those principles. La pluie, ça nous mouille et la rouille, ça nous nuit Règlons, nom d'un ours, le problème à la source L'ennui c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos roues dentées, c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos clous Les tas de viande ils fontt peine à voir ils glandouillent du matin au soir et ils n'ont plus aucun pouvoir y'a plus à s'en soucier Les tas de viande ils sont moins malins que le robinet de la salle de bain du coup ils nous servent plus à rien on peut les oublier... L'ennui c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos roues dentées, c'est l'oxygène qui fait rouiller nos clous