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What does this same scenario look like in 30 years? Sorry to have to let you go, but please continue to perform your tasks so that your roboplacement can learn

• braythwayt 11y ago
  Imagine, if you will, that there was a law saying that we could only grow 7,500 androids per year, and then only to do jobs we couldn't do with humans. Then companies play games and replace existing teams with androids, using up 7,000 of the available slots. The net result would be a shortage of androids for one-way space exploration and the other original intended purposes. This is the situation today. We have a rapidly growing need for software engineers in startups, and some people say that we need more visas for companies that are actually creating new jobs and growing our economy. But it's very hard for startups to get H1Bs when companies abuse the program for replacing existing workers. I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to replace existing workers with immigrants, but if that's what we want, we should say so and loosen immigration policies in general. As it stands, this behaviour is essentially Disney stealing slots from startups.
• untothebreach 11y ago
  This is actually a (very) small plot point at the beginning of the book 'Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell. A technician shadows you for an amount of time, until he/she feels they know exactly how your job gets done. Then they go off and teach an AI to do it.
  • sopooneo 11y ago
    It's roughly the underlying tension in Vonnegut's "Player Piano" as well.