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Losing physical work won't be detrimental, it's something no one likes and no one is particularly good at, losing creative work would be but it doesn't look lik
by chr1 7y ago
Losing physical work won't be detrimental, it's something no one likes and no one is particularly good at, losing creative work would be but it doesn't look like we are particularly close to creating ai, and when we create it we'll find some way to stay at the center of it by either creating devices that augment our brains, changing our brains to be as good as the ai, or simply uploading into computer and becoming part of ai.
In any case there is so much work in science, that we should be happy for every human that is freed from physical work.
- winchling 7y agoPhysical work is creative. Wielding the body takes intelligence and is improved incrementally by trial and error. People can and do take pleasure in it. Robots are merely an extension and enhancement of the bodies of their operators. (So the perennial fear of robots 'taking over' amounts to saying that bodies will somehow take over.) It's not about being free from physical work, it's about choosing what problems to work on -- before other problems choose you! In most cases people who work a job are having their problems chosen for them. So they are still, in this sense, slaves. And this is itself a problem. We haven't found the solution yet. But we may...
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- agumonkey 7y agoUsing your body and mind is maybe half of life. The problem is the context in which you do so. A balance between selfish~ pleasure, altruistic pleasure (social role) is necessary. When so I'm sure most people are highly happy.
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