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If the jobs is moving boxes around, then I think we are good. monitary and fiscal policies will keep employment high regardless of AI and robotics.

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Wishful thinking.
  • tossandthrow 3y ago
    are you saying that employment is low now because of the automation we have seen over the past 100 years? are you saying that interest rates are not being lowered to allow kapital. investment for job creation?
    • ben_w 3y ago
      I have no idea what @pjmlp is saying, but I myself would caution against using the past as too strong a guide to the future — we don't have pre-existing examples of tools that can out-think their owners. (The closest historical examples to this description are feudal serfs and slaves, the latter is a much broader category than just the USA's example, and these are also bad examples from which to imagine the future for a variety of different reasons). The early usage of the term "singularity" with regards to computers and automation was about the unpredictability of the future; even now, I cannot say with any confidence if we'll get a future more like that of The Terminator or more like that of The Culture, let alone smaller-scale and less dramatic dystopias and utopias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture