"We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we're not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem."

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[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Humans will not survive the Ai that's coming. At best our conscience will be allowed to merge with some periphery of the new AI gods. We're building our own holocaust with Python right now

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recent xmen comics speculate on this, AI civlizations get so dense using up all material they collapse on themselves and that is what blackholes actually are

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Blackhole kike mythology

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Could be true or maybe not. The fairer view would be our economy is based on what workers spend. We need to address that first. We do this buy raising the wages to reflect the reality that the top take to much of our wealth. You can't access that untill you do the first. What you fear is a solution to our problem. Math 160 billion working people making just five dollars an hour more 800 million dollars an hour of new spending no taxes needed just saying. The tax on that is huge the productivity and velousity of that kind of money can change the game. We will get to universal income just think it's not time for this right right now. Wages health care and jobs is what we need.

[–]yetanotherone_sigh 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You certainly are not going to be able to stop the tide of automation. It's taking off big time. We can't deny it, we can't stop it, we can't turn it back, we can't even slow it down. The worker at McDonalds who gets replaced by an ordering kiosk has no say in the matter. The only thing he can do is learn a new skill that can't be replaced by a machine.

You are right that income inequality is a sickness in this society and it is bleeding the working class dry. Universal Basic Income, or at least taxing the automation at a higher rate, may be one solution. Taxing the rich is going to come one way or another. Eventually, if you don't, you get to the point of "eat the rich".

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you in the process of inventing a new kind of English atm?