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Eh. Every time this comes up what is often missed is that humans are complementary to machines and we don’t yet understand conscience and identity all that well
by pm90 7y ago
Eh. Every time this comes up what is often missed is that humans are complementary to machines and we don’t yet understand conscience and identity all that well.
You’re right that the jobs as they exist today won’t in the future. Just like manufacturing replaced agriculture which was then replaced by services, there will be higher orders of creativity and problem solving that most humans will be engaged in the future.
There really isn’t a lack of problems to solve. Consider that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the earth and the farthest we’ve sent humans to is the Moon. The Space Industry might as well be the economic market that keeps expanding forever...
- state_less 7y agoHumans look a lot like machines to me though. So it seems we are looking at the old machine competing against the new. And maybe the new machine is a hybrid of the old machine with some new feature built in. I don't think we'd call it human though, cyborg maybe. One of the things I didn't like about Star Trek was that they have this super powerful computer and yet Picard has to ask Wesley to punch in the coordinates on the console and engage the warp coils. What kind of theater is this? Sure a floating monolithic slab of computation in space has less cinema appeal than a crew of humans, but a hardened machine seems more plausible for space travel. Humans can't sustain much more than 1g acceleration and don't live too long.