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Labor has not yet become obsolete. That doesn't mean it can't. I'm not talking about the prevailing definition of what a human can do. I'm talking about the ac
by Zaak 15y ago
Labor has not yet become obsolete. That doesn't mean it can't.
I'm not talking about the prevailing definition of what a human can do. I'm talking about the actual fact of what a human can do.
You still haven't addressed the question of what will happen when nearly everything which a human being is capable of can be done better by a machine.
- zeteo 15y agoLabor does not become obsolete. Inefficient capital is discarded, but less efficient labor is always useful to some degree, because of comparative advantage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Example_1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Example_1). This holds even for the scenario of AI becoming a very close substitute for humans. The economic pressure, however, is to develop AI in directions that are complementary to human abilities.