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Re: Replacement.ai

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Post by great_wubwub »

recursivegirth wrote: post #214
thekevan wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your marriage is a decision between you and your spouse and is a mutual decision. A job is a decision that your boss(es) made and can be taken without your consent. You don't have the ownership of your job that you do of your marriage.

Both marriage and job contracts are mutually binding legal agreements. You have the agency within those dynamics that the law gives you, which varies by region/jurisdiction respectively. Your partner in some (most?) cases can absolutely make an executive decision that ends your marriage, with you having no options but to accept the outcome. Your argument falls a little flat.

I'm not sure where you live, but employee contracts in the US are very rare in tech. Unions, execs, and rock stars - that's about it. The rest of us are at-will and disposable. Worker protections in the US are limited to "the machine can't eat more than two of your fingers per day" and "you can't work people more than 168 hours in a week".

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Post by SJC_Hacker »

mlyle wrote: post #198
hasmolo wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

look it's a straw man!

But it's not, really. Machines doing stuff instead of humans is great as long as it serves some kind of human purpose . If it lets humans do more human things as a result and have purpose, great. If it supplants things humans value, in the name of some kind of efficiency that isn't serving very many of us at all, that's not so great.

It does serve a human purpose, for the ownership class, not for the laborers

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Post by achierius »

lateforwork wrote: post #111

You don't need money. What you need is wealth. I am going to leave it to PG to explain the difference [1]: Wealth is not money. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn'…

We already have systems that create unprecedented wealth: industrial economies. And yet we let billions live and die without proper healthcare, nutrition, housing, and so on. The promise you make -- that with increases in productive capacity will clearly come an end to want -- has already been shown to be a lie. Please stop peddling it.

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Post by [deleted] »

TechSquidTV wrote: post #86

Personal belief, but robots coming for your jobs is not a valid argument against robots. If robots can do a job better and/or faster, they should be the ones doing the jobs. Specialization is how we got to the future. So the problem isn't robots, it's the structure of how we humans rely on jobs for income. I don't necessarily feel like it's the AI company's problem to fix either. This is what government is for, and n…

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Re: Replacement.ai

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Post by SJC_Hacker »

candiddevmike wrote: post #180
gnarlouse wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you assume the AI companies actually want to create a super intelligence they can’t control. Altman has stated as much. Musk definitely wants to remain in power.

Life, uh, finds a way

Life in general, maybe

Species go extinct.

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Post by sejje »

rapatel0 wrote: post #190
everdrive wrote: post #171

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If robots are a better partner, then maybe your are not that great a partner...

In a hypothetical future, the robot could link up to your wife's brain interface/"neuralink" for diagnostic level information, and directly tune performance instantly based on what's working.

You can compete, but not for long IMO. (No pun)

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Post by kwar13 »

Agriculture used to be more than 50% of ALL employment in the USA. Now it's barely 2%. Ever wondered why?

I understand the spirit of this, but most of this alarmism is misguided in my view.

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