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So after 20 years trying to make legs work, they switched to wheels, like everyone's been telling them all along... Thats gotta sting!
They haven't managed to master bipeds yet, but it's understandable given how hard controlling those are.
We are rapidly approaching the automation of most repetitive human labor. Warehouse workers, truck/uber/cab drivers. Fast food workers, etc. What happens when these jobs go away? Historically technology has always provided a means of replacing those lost jobs but I think we are reaching an event horizon now where all of that changes. What happens to all of the people whose positions are replaced? I think we are teete…
We are rapidly approaching the automation of most repetitive human labor. Warehouse workers, truck/uber/cab drivers. Fast food workers, etc. What happens when these jobs go away? Historically technology has always provided a means of replacing those lost jobs but I think we are reaching an event horizon now where all of that changes. What happens to all of the people whose positions are replaced? I think we are teete…
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Doubtful. You need provable security and systems characteristics if you wanted to get approval for a household robot in for example the E.U. Higher cognition and task solving? Sure, we can do that with blackbox methods, but everything where skulls could get crushed, you want, and by law need, the boring stuff.
Meanwhile, Tesla's Autopilot is using deep learning to detect roads, cars, objects and people.
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Doubtful. You need provable security and systems characteristics if you wanted to get approval for a household robot in for example the E.U. Higher cognition and task solving? Sure, we can do that with blackbox methods, but everything where skulls could get crushed, you want, and by law need, the boring stuff.
Meanwhile, Tesla's Autopilot is using deep learning to detect roads, cars, objects and people.
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> we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy. That's a pretty darned condescending attitude to harbor there. I know a lot of people who have what you'd call s#### jobs, and they're happy, fulfilled, and proud of the work they do.
Are they ? Amazon warehouse workers ? People working in slaughterhouses ? Starbucks "baristas" working 3 jobs at once while they're execs use every trick in the book to avoid taxes and make literal billions in profit ? Min wage people working insane hours to barely afford life ? I'm the condescending condescending one ? They're being shat on by capitalism. I wish only one thing, for their lives to get better. I'm not…
For what its worth, a high percentage of people are living paycheck to paycheck, no matter how big that paycheck is. Many people will adjust their lifestyle to or above their means, so they have to live paycheck to paycheck to support that lifestyle.
We are rapidly approaching the automation of most repetitive human labor. Warehouse workers, truck/uber/cab drivers. Fast food workers, etc. What happens when these jobs go away? Historically technology has always provided a means of replacing those lost jobs but I think we are reaching an event horizon now where all of that changes. What happens to all of the people whose positions are replaced? I think we are teete…
will they unionize?
I don't think Amazon cares much about the long team warehouse worker situation because they know it will be automated very soon. I'm curious if workers unionizing could negatively affect their automation aspirations.
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Harder to imagine a society in which we have no need for jobs though Unless we get something like UBI we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy. Automation for the sake of automation doesn't bring much if 70% of the population is still working 8 hours a day 5 days a week on more and more useless tasks. This isn't even talking about the fact that we're increasing productivity per unit of time but never reducing…
Guaranteeing employment by creating bullshit jobs is one of the big mistakes made by the late USSR. Doing so represented a fundamental shift in ideals from the egalitarian "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to the puritanical "the who does not work, neither shall he eat". I keep thinking recently that the US looks more and more like the old jokes about the USSR. There is no fundament…
But we want to enjoy the standard of living of today, we always want more, our desires fill up any level of productivity increase.
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Nobody said better things require more resources. If anything, modern manufacturing uses far less than it did decades ago, with less pollution, people renting things more than wasteful owning, etc. E.g. when driverless taxis come along, expect to see car manufacturing plummet. > there is more to life than working 50%+ of our awake time to watch netflix and buy iphones Life is what you make of it. If you want to write…
> If anything, modern manufacturing uses far less than it did decades ago, with less pollution, people renting things more than wasteful owning, I don't think we live in the same world then, we've never imported/exported so much shit, third world countries are catching up with the west in term of how they want to live (personal cars, bigger houses, more electronics), we're polluting more than ever, &c. all the metric…