I recommend reading gwern's response, as it refutes the major question in Eliezer's thesis: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_antifaq/

I recommend reading gwern's response, as it refutes the major question in Eliezer's thesis: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_antifaq/9fw8 http://lesswrong.com/lw/hh4/the_robots_ai_and_unemployment_a... When someone asks "what's different now?" the answer is sometimes "thresholds, sweet spots, and tipping points." So often these things are overlooked in so many areas of life; things don't always turn out the same way _because the state of things (environment, economy, culture, laws, development, wathever) is not the same._