100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
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Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#2Previous discussion (Feb 2015, 90 comments):
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#3I really can’t wait.
I have so many side projects I need to finish and my day job keeps interfering with them.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#4Relevant Ray Bradbury story (Don’t Get Technatal): https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ray-bradbury/short-fiction...
Written in the 1930s about the far future world of 1975.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#5I really can’t wait. I have so many side projects I need to finish and my day job keeps interfering with them.
It's okay. Your robot will finish them for you so you can focus on your soul destroying CRUD app at work :)
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#6Time flies. I suppose the difference between now and 2013 are LLMs, which did seem to trigger renewed interest in robotics and related branches of knowledge. That said, if history is any indicator, it will not go well.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#7The machines will have owners; likely, these owners will be very few due to the concentration of wealth that they will have accumulated by the time we reach full automation.
So, probably a guy will own all the agricultural automation, another one the warehouse automation, another one the software, etc.
Then there will also be the resource owners (probably states or big landlords). Since resources are finite (land, minerals), the automation owners will need to pay for these.
Among these folks, there will be an exchange of money.
So, for the rest of us, if we don’t own some resource, the outlook does not seem very bright. Maybe prostitution to the owners will be the only available job.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#8The machines will have owners; likely, these owners will be very few due to the concentration of wealth that they will have accumulated by the time we reach full automation. So, probably a guy will own all the agricultural automation, another one the warehouse automation, another one the software, etc. Then there will also be the resource owners (probably states or big landlords). Since resources are finite (land, mi…
Or we just rob the resource owners and burn the automation.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#9I think this line of reasoning is premature. The drive to mass automate is delusional. The complexity of that undertaking is barely grasped, and the tech to enable it may be visible on the horizon, but what we are working with today is not that technology. The AI today is "Atari graphics" and, yeah, sure, we can see the photo realistic fully automated civilization in this capability, but there is a gargantuan series of unsolved and nobody wants to touch them human political and human maturity issues that will stall and derail all of this thinking. The tech is on the horizon, but the human race's ability to meet it is not, we've got growing up to do.
Re: 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)
#10Relevant Ray Bradbury story (Don’t Get Technatal): https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ray-bradbury/short-fiction... Written in the 1930s about the far future world of 1975.
Or Judge Dredd's futsies.