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Let's not get carried away here. We've had technological advancements that "automate" and "replace" work since the beginning of time, and yet, we're all working
by tobinfekkes 4y ago
Let's not get carried away here. We've had technological advancements that "automate" and "replace" work since the beginning of time, and yet, we're all working more than ever. Or at least, we're closer to overworking than we are to underworking, in spite of all the progress.
Work changed. It didn't go away.
- mindcrime 4y agoAnd there was no such thing as a black swan. Until there was. It's the "problem of induction"[1][2]. The past up through the present moment gives us hints about the future, but it can't (by induction) definitely tell us what the future will hold. Note that I'm not arguing that we should all freak out over AI today and start rioting in the streets. But it is fair, IMO, to ask the kinds of questions being asked here. What does happen once we have machines that are on par with human capabilities in pretty much every "value creation" sense? What does a world look like where there is no actual need for humans to do the kind of "work" that most of us do today? What kind of social/economic/political systems will we have? Will the world be more "Star Trek: TNG" or more "The Matrix"? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction [2]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/
- api 4y agoIf anything we might be concerned that the trend will continue and we will be left more busy and more overworked, not less. That’s historically how it’s often gone. Every labor saving innovation creates more work somewhere else.