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If we want to grow US economy by making existing humans more productive per capita, then we need cheaper energy per capita, cheaper intelligent robots per capit
by nojvek 3y ago
If we want to grow US economy by making existing humans more productive per capita, then we need cheaper energy per capita, cheaper intelligent robots per capita. Also goes to say we need less NIMBY-ism per capita.
We need high speed rail building robots, solar farm building robots, home building robots, healthcare robots. Cheap repairable open robots. Robots that defend us, robots that transport.
More robots than humans. More robot companies diverse in their approaches.
- bugbuddy 3y agoPlease reconsider the part “robots that defend us.” There have been many books and movies made about this idea. I don’t think we want it.
- newsclues 3y agoWe can’t be afraid of technology because of movies. Do you not know of all the technology that we enjoy today that had movies and books decrying the dangers?
- bugbuddy 3y agoWell, I would be hard pressed to find an example for the wheels. :)
- ectopasm83 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKgY1ilx0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKgY1ilx0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cghg-QyTP_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cghg-QyTP_M
- bugbuddy 3y agoDon’t count. Wheels have spokes.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y ago>Do you not know of all the technology that we enjoy today that had movies and books decrying the dangers? Like what?
- newsclues 3y agoThe printing press! https://macleans.ca/facebook-instant-articles/boo-a-brief-history-of-technology-scares https://macleans.ca/facebook-instant-articles/boo-a-brief-hi... Btw I think social media is a very dangerous tool being abused and exploited by many.
- kiba 3y agoMovies are fiction. You can't make policies based on fiction. You could make policies based on real concern shown by the movies, but they have to be based on reality.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoYou're perceiving the causal chain in the wrong direction.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoRebranding the war department to the "defense" department is some of the best gaslighting ever pulled off.
- steve76 3y ago[dead]
- grecy 3y ago> Robots that defend us Defend from who, and who is us ?
- Ekaros 3y agoMaybe from attacking others? So each time someone calls for a war or some such action they would be shot automatically by AI controlled robot with gun. Seems effective and reasonable solution.
- XorNot 3y agoHow can you seriously be this naive? There's a country in Europe currently being invaded in a war of conquest because the invader can for the explicit purpose of subjugating the population and seizing territory and natural resources.
- abswest 3y agoLets put a face to a name - Russia, somehow yet not officially recognized as a terrorist state.
- CommanderData 3y agoThere's another that's killed 71 children every day for the last 6 months. We support that Terror state too, Israel.
- vasco 3y agoI'm 100% up for less NIMBYing but I'm not sure it'd work in my neighborhood.
- protomolecule 3y agoYou don't need 'capita' in this world.
- sgu999 3y agoWhat will humans do in that setup? I always fail to understand how replacing labor by capital in our current system helps for prosperity once a certain threshold of productivity is reached. Sure selling your physical labor isn't ideal, but it's better than having no wage at all because there's nothing in your reach that isn't done by robots. We won't have a basic income, Americans can't even get a proper healthcare...
- financetechbro 3y agoEveryone will become skilled technicians
- countvonbalzac 3y agoI guess theoretically humans do more complex work? Rather than screwing in a solar panel, humans supervise the robots that screw in the solar panels. Then in theory we'll have the same number of humans employed in the solar industry but 10x the solar installed per year. When spreadsheets came along we didn't have less accounting work, we had infinitely more. That being said I am very skeptical that AI will be the same, or that our society is in any way prepared for a rapid transition away from human labor.
- nojvek 3y agoHumans working on farms with tractors are more productive than humans working with oxen to till land. Accountants working with computers are more productive than accountants working with books and a hand-held calculator. There will be a Pareto curve of distribution. If we want to reduce the cost of things, we have to reduce the cost of inputs and make the markets transparent (while holding a base level of quality and safety). This is why TVs and electronics become cheap while healthcare costs balloon out.
- rangestransform 3y agoThe construction unions (at least in nyc) are more likely to throw rocks at the robots