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> AI/Robots should replace physical labor before it replaces knowledge workers. There's actually a kind of internet famous novel where the exact opposite happe
by tablespoon 4y ago
> AI/Robots should replace physical labor before it replaces knowledge workers.
There's actually a kind of internet famous novel where the exact opposite happens. I don't remember the name of it or the site it's on, but initial premise has AI automating management (starting with pretty menial things like directing workers at fast food restaurant, and working its way up the value chain).
It was pretty interesting, but I only got as far as the protagonist getting interned in a kind of debtors prison once his savings ran out and he couldn't afford to live outside of it (due to all the automation). The prison was theoretically open, but if you wandered too far away, robots would tranq you (after very many "nice" exhortations to return) and you'd wake up back in your bed.
- gremlinsinc 4y agoI think the story is manna, by the founder of How stuff works. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 it actually ends on a positive note, it's trying to compare two possible ways society could respond to the automation revolution.
- tablespoon 4y ago> I think the story is manna, by the founder of How stuff works. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 Yes, that's it! > it actually ends on a positive note, it's trying to compare two possible ways society could respond to the automation revolution. Yeah, but I stopped reading at that point. Partially because I had something else to do, and partially because it seemed like a utopian fantasy.