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Simple really, robots will do most physical jobs better than us and society needs to adapt to that. They will also be used in tasks we find disgusting like mili
by Shivetya 12y ago
Simple really, robots will do most physical jobs better than us and society needs to adapt to that. They will also be used in tasks we find disgusting like military conflict. Seeing how little real outrage drones deaths are causing; mostly because of deft political handling of the press; do you think employing robots against "other people" really is going to be much different?
The best outcome is that the onset of robots doing much of the work is that it frees enough of the world from economic strife to end the need for warfare.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoBiologicals still have an edge - the power-plant issue. Until batteries get a LOT better, or fuel cells get cheaper, a person that lives off of peanut butter and lemonade is a real advantage.
- seacious 12y agoEspecially since a very active human will only require the energy equivalent of a liter or two of gas per day.
- viraptor 12y ago> frees enough of the world from economic strife to end the need for warfare. While this sounds good, I'm not sure this would happen for two reasons: - we'd have to completely change the system of work / salaries / resource allocation - the way we're going right now we'll end up with smaller number of companies providing services / resources to huge society that is much larger than needed to support those companies - I don't believe people have a need for warefare... they may actually be more interested in it, assuming their other daily needs are satisfied in an easier way Why do you think automating much more work would make life better for people in general?
- PavlovsCat 12y agoThe world has economic strife not in the least because of greed, and violence not in the least because of the lust for power. I am afraid more efficiency might not necessarily reduce those, it might even enhance them.