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I literally made a scene laughing at this while sitting in a hipster cafe complete with Edison light bulbs.
How many lights are there?
Just six. Is that enough for what you had in mind?
Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
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#62With condition of being suppled by resources for living I think it's a good idea to go into research. It's a bit unrelated, but I think that maybe instead of just introducing basic income to suppress social tensions caused by bots taking jobs it would be better to spend the money to create new research jobs at large scale. There are plenty underexplored directions in science and research in lots of them can't be auto…
AFAIK most UBI advocates aren't looking to just throw money at people and tell them they don't need to work. It's not called a Universal Comfortable Income, or a Universal Middle Class Income. Unless you're a devout ascetic or minimalist, you'll probably still want other sources of income. The UBI provides you a baseline that can make it easier for people to spend a while retraining, or resist being underpaid for mis…
To add to this, UBI would also allow people to provide value in areas other than research. A few examples would be arts, sports, charity and community work.
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#63I'd program a bot better than the one that took my job and take his (and yours)! :)
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#64This story has been playing out for a long time now. The plowshare, the printing press, textile mills, cars, etc... The plowshare replaced a team of people doing the work by hand. What happened to those people when the plowing "robot" took their job? I bet it was hard times for them, but you can't avoid the fact that we're all better off for it. So, since we know what happened in history and can't see into the future…
If you're a horse, and the car was just invented, what do you do? That is the question.
If horses could invent cars, things would be very different. We are not horses.
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#66Why do only few people realize that bots ARE NOT(!) the problem! Our f*cked up economic system is! If we would live in. better society in which capitalism is finally known to be horrible by a majority of people, everyone would profit from robots and almost everyone (except those mind-sick workaholics) would be happy. We just need to finally acknowledge, that capitalism is bullshit, period.
P.S.: I hate communism more than capitalism, so don't dare to accuse me of being one of those who my family fled from...
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many lights are there?
Just six. Is that enough for what you had in mind?
I was springing off remyp's Star Trek reference: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12050/why-four-ligh...
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're a horse, and the car was just invented, what do you do? That is the question.
If horses could invent cars, things would be very different. We are not horses.
An AI that could replace a software developer can likely replace all forms of white collar work. Not a whole lot left after that. I can't imagine that any new job category that such an AI would enable would need humans either.
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#69Become the messiah to the robots hoping once they realize they don't need humans that they would still need their human messiah.
Re: Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
#70Why do only few people realize that bots ARE NOT(!) the problem! Our f*cked up economic system is! If we would live in. better society in which capitalism is finally known to be horrible by a majority of people, everyone would profit from robots and almost everyone (except those mind-sick workaholics) would be happy. We just need to finally acknowledge, that capitalism is bullshit, period. P.S.: I hate communism more…
Why do you hate communism? Is there a legitimate reason?