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The Russians developed a way to deal with this at Chernobyl - send in people. They also use this method to deal with bullets and artillery in Ukraine.
by strangattractor 2y ago
The Russians developed a way to deal with this at Chernobyl - send in people. They also use this method to deal with bullets and artillery in Ukraine.
- moffkalast 2y agoWhen all you have is people, all problems look like they need some people thrown at them.
- jes5199 2y agoif there really is a humanoid-robot-powered labor transition in the next decade or two, your comment will take on strange new prescience
- moffkalast 2y agoYea I have two things on my 50 years bingo chart: supporting unemployable people through UBI/bullshit jobs by reallocating the profits from automated production, or getting rid of them through wars, famine, etc. until only the capital owners remain. Still waiting on which one it'll be. Probably both to some extent.
- jes5199 2y agothe only idea I have on how to improve the outcome here is normalizing things like Gofundme and Patreon and just in general transferring wealth from people who hit the automation jackpot to people who don't. But things are going to get weird and it's hard to predict the social consequences. Maybe robots get so cheap that there's no reason the have-nots don't have them, too (like today with smartphones and cars) and then there's no famine because food production is so easy with automation (???)
- tehjoker 2y agothey sent in people only when the situation absolutely required it. they tried a robot and it burned out
- babypuncher 2y agoHowever the situation in Ukraine absolutely does not require it. They could simply choose to stop invading a sovereign nation.
- jojobas 2y agoPutin is hit by sunk costs. He can't afford to "just withdraw". The madness will continue as long as he's in power.
- tsimionescu 2y agoUnfortunately everyone that has a reasonable chance to follow Putin is at least as bad as he is, at least on this topic.
- toss1 2y agoIt will continue until either Putin is no longer in power, or until RU is pushed back to its borders. Russia implements Lenin's approach: "We probe with bayonets, where we find mush, we press on, where we find steel,we withdraw.". The West has so far provided mostly mush and insufficient & overly constrained steel (e.g., short range and can't hit targets in RU so self-creating a safe zone for Putin). When the West steps up to win, it will end. If it doesn't, we'll be fighting more expensive wars on NATO territory, the Baltics, Poland, Finland, and more.
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- computerex 2y agoI mean Israel can stop murdering children and repeatedly breaking international law, but that's neither here nor there.