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Dealing with climate change is going to be expensive. Efficiency is good. If Priya gets to stay home and e.g. tend a Permaculture food forest while a computer
by carapace 4y ago
Dealing with climate change is going to be expensive.
Efficiency is good.
If Priya gets to stay home and e.g. tend a Permaculture food forest while a computer does her job for her at a billionth of the cost (resource usage) that should be a good thing?
Her QoL would arguably be much higher if she gets to keep the pay. She would have eight hours a day to pursue science rather than drudging as a data jockey, eh?
The problem here isn't the talking computers, the problem is how to allocate the economic windfall they generate.
I've heard it said, "Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."
The questions are:
1) Who decides the boundaries of acceptable thought?
2) Who benefits from the economic windfall?
3) How do we educate ourselves in a world where computers can answer any
(allowed) question?