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As a society it should be our goal to have all the repetitive and dumb work been done by machines. If a machine can do your job it wasn't that challenging in th
by gst 16y ago
As a society it should be our goal to have all the repetitive and dumb work been done by machines. If a machine can do your job it wasn't that challenging in the first place. In that case your job provides absolutely zero benefits to the society.
- georgemcbay 16y agoThat is easy to say so long as your own job still falls above the cut-off line of what machines can reasonably do. The scary part is that line will probably rise up to the point where it encompasses all jobs currently done by humans within my lifetime.
- gst 16y agoThat's not scary, that's good. It's also inevitable if Ray Kurzweil is right and computers will soon exceed the mental capabilities of humans. It's only scary if you think in today's economic model where automation implies unemployment and where unemployment implies poverty. But just think of the following arguments: - If a person a hundred years ago would have predicted today's technology, this person might have thought that this technology will destroy most of the jobs and unemployment will raise. Instead, people moved to new types of jobs and economy continued to grow. - Even if computers and robots can take over all of the jobs this does not need to be a bad thing. Of course this would not work in today's economic systems, but there could be new systems where computers and robots do the work and humans equally profit from the results.
- georgemcbay 16y agoLong-term good is often very short-term scary. Our economic models will not be adjusted to this new reality very quickly.