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Robots and Unintended Consequences
Artful Dilettante ^
| May 27, 2016
| Artful Dilettante
Posted on 05/27/2016 7:34:53 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary
Correction on 3. The female robots will talk back when in snark mode. Which you cant turn off.
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posted on
05/27/2016 7:43:22 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: huckfillary
They don’t adulterate your food deliberately.
To: huckfillary
Other things about robots.
1. They don’t earn a paycheck and spend it elsewhere in the economy.
2. They don’t marry and have children and purchase or rent homes, and buy all the usual needs of a family or individual consumer.
The list could be very long, but I wouldn’t get too excited about the wonders of a world where economies have no need for the labor of a large part of the population.
Will lead to a massive central, redistributionist government.
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posted on
05/27/2016 7:46:39 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: Bender2
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posted on
05/27/2016 7:47:32 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: huckfillary
They don’t need.... managers.
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posted on
05/27/2016 7:49:20 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Will88
Not to mention far, far too many yutes with nothing to do but cause mayhem.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
They’ll just get free money from Bernie’s stash and chillax all day
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:10:47 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: huckfillary
Automated production will be much more decentralized and distributed in the near future. And there will be no regulatory local government administrators, employees or NIMBYs.
Transforming Our Communities Ourselves With Technology
It's what former fast food employees and many other truly technically inclined people will do.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:12:20 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yep, I think people who believe that job elimination is something to be celebrated are in for the proverbial rude awakening. Well, at least those who live long enough to see a world where a large part of populations are not needed in the economies of nations where they live.
Much better if most working age folks have something productive to do to occupy their time.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:14:24 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: Will88
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Other things about robots.
1. They dont earn a paycheck and spend it elsewhere in the economy.
2. They dont marry and have children and purchase or rent homes, and buy all the usual needs of a family or individual consumer.
The list could be very long, but I wouldnt get too excited about the wonders of a world where economies have no need for the labor of a large part of the population."
I'm excited about it, because it will help to bring the default process and the regulatory regime to its conclusion. See
comment #9...
...and
http://opensourceecology.org/
Imagine all design being open source...or have a look at it. Imagine all production being much more distributed.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:18:19 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: familyop
It's what former fast food employees and many other truly technically inclined people will do. It's what a small portion of the population might do. People are kidding themselves when they pretend that large numbers of people with marginal education and few job skills are going to find productive work in a highly automated world where even the labor intensive work still available is exported to the cheapest labor that can be found around the world.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:20:42 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: familyop
You’re living in a fantasy world if you think what you describe is going to result in productive work for an large portion of a nation’s population. There is always a limited number of self-starters and truly innovative people in a given population.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:26:15 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: huckfillary
Nancy Palousy will be thrilled when 3/4 of working-age people are unemployed and replaced by robots. She should retread her March 2012 remarks about government "healthcare":
As you hear from these stories, this is a liberation, Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference. This is what our founders had in mind--ever expanding opportunity for people. You want to be a photographer or a writer or a musician, whatever -- an artist, you want to be self-employed, if you want to start a business, you want to change jobs, you no longer are prohibited from doing that because you cant have access to health care, especially because you do not want to put your family at risk."
To: huckfillary
Robots do not sue and/or shut down your business because you hired or promoted a deserving and competent robot of a different paint color or plumbing setup.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:36:43 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Will88
"People are kidding themselves when they pretend that large numbers of people with marginal education and few job skills are going to find productive work in a highly automated world where even the labor intensive work still available is exported to the cheapest labor that can be found around the world."
Yes, the degreed interns are more visible to most folks who discuss politics in depth. One might even say that they're related. ;-)
Necessity is the mother of invention...and of tenacity.
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posted on
05/27/2016 8:57:42 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: huckfillary
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posted on
05/27/2016 9:08:01 PM PDT
by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: Will88
Open source equipment will be more cost effective and efficient than patented equipment. I do agree with your previous comments. Automation equipment purchased by government-backed entities for large production operations will help to end the regime of recirculating debt. Their former employees won’t be able to buy their products. Neither will their unemployed regulators in the very near future (see debt, default process). Small, open source operations will continue to grow and replicate.
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posted on
05/27/2016 9:17:26 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: huckfillary
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posted on
05/27/2016 9:21:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Progressives replaced doublethink, doublespeak with nothink, nospeak. Orwell wasn't up to the task)
To: huckfillary
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posted on
05/27/2016 9:21:18 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
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