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It makes more sense through the lens of advancing the short / medium term interests of corporations under the guise of “helping people”. When we’re all brain r
by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It makes more sense through the lens of advancing the short / medium term interests of corporations under the guise of “helping people”.
When we’re all brain rotted and unemployed, how will we spend money on corporations? Its a spiral.
- joquarky 11mo agoI keep remembering this clip in these discussions: > I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it. > There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and yellow lights blinking off and on, which tell the worker what is happening in the machine. > One of the management people, with a slightly gleeful tone in his voice said to me, “How are you going to collect union dues from all these machines?” > And I replied, “You know, that is not what’s bothering me. I’m troubled by the problem of how to sell automobiles to these machines - Walter Reuther, Nov. 1956 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars
- askvictor 11mo agoThe short story "The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine" by Greg Egan deals with this nicely. I won't give away the ending though.