A lot of weird stuff happens close to zero. Dropping from $1/loaf of bread to $0.50/loaf is only fifty cents, which for some people seems tiny. For someone who doesn't have a job or any assets generating income, the fifty cents means they can afford to eat.
AI will create 'useless class' of humans
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Re: AI will create 'useless class' of humans
#82Every time a new tech emerges someone will always say, that the new tech will take away human jobs. The new tech will take away human jobs. But the humans will just go do other newly created jobs.
There is no law of economics that says the value of labor has to be above survival, let alone minimum wage. When cars replaced horses, most horses didn't get new jobs. They literally became worth less than the cost of feeding them, and were slaughtered. Near future AI will make the majority of humans basically worthless. There isn't much left that people can do, and computers can't. Sure maybe high intelligence jobs…
Economics is an entirely human construction. Such laws can be made as easily as the rest of the economic system and it makes sense.
Re: AI will create 'useless class' of humans
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So they are made with other organic compounds. Do they function as shirts? What is the problem with nylon?
I don't mean the fabric. I mean all the chemicals applied to it. I have a Vietnamese-owned minimart down the street and whenever I walk past it during opening hours, it smells like a chemicals factory.
This just sounds like speculation on your part based on the smell.
Re: AI will create 'useless class' of humans
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean the fabric. I mean all the chemicals applied to it. I have a Vietnamese-owned minimart down the street and whenever I walk past it during opening hours, it smells like a chemicals factory.
This just sounds like speculation on your part based on the smell.
Looks like I should have put "/s" after that initial hyperbolic statement.
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We're not talking about now, we're talking about the future. Computers in the 50s couldn't talk to you or how to tell you whether its raining in Tulsa just by you asking it. AI is early days. This amuses me: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=movie+where+a+professor+si... The third result is the one I'm looking for. DeepMind can learn atari games on its own. The future is arriving quickly.
This is the third link for me, and I don't think it answers the question (I've just skimmed it): http://www.businessinsider.com/professors-craziest-students-... I don't see any link that could answer that question in my first page of results.
Hmm, the filter bubble will damn us all.
the answer is: "The Man From Earth", a movie. A very good movie.