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If there has to be poor people in order for there to be rich people, let’s make robots be the poor people. The best endgame we can probably hope for is for the
by ninkendo 4y ago
If there has to be poor people in order for there to be rich people, let’s make robots be the poor people.
The best endgame we can probably hope for is for there to be a sustainably small number of really comfortable, happy humans on this planet, and an army of robot servants/AI to keep us all fat and happy.
- danparsonson 4y agoBut the tiny proportion of very rich people can never get enough and therefore what will actually happen is we'll end up with an army of robot servants making the rich people richer and more comfortable, while the rest of us fight over the scraps.
- brutusborn 4y agoI used to have the same utopic dream, but I have started to question whether a "small number" is actually desireable. If everyone on earth is working on great things, having more people might be better. Maybe even Elons vision of people spilling out into the stars.
- lupire 4y agoEveryone on Earth is contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem. "Spilling out into the stars" is impossible, there aren't enough physical resources.
- brutusborn 4y agoBut there must be a subset that isn't? A perfect sized human resource footprint to match earths carrying capacity? And I'm not aware of any current physical limits to space colonization? I thought the main limit was energy, and the sun has a lot to give for a while.
- hoseja 4y agoThis is impossible with baseline humans, no matter how good you make education (without slipping into much heavier indoctrination).
- brutusborn 4y agoWhy is that?
- imtringued 4y agoThat doesn't work. You have to pay the full costs of the robot yourself. If you hire a human the production cost of the human has been borne by their parents. In fact, employees are expected to pay for their own education via college tuition.
- ninkendo 4y agoLet’s make other robots build the robots.