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Perhaps at some point, there is a tipping point where robots are designing and engineering robots that design and engineer robots that are building other robots and those robots have AI that is far more advanced than any human’s intelligence, but I doubt that will be soon.

Until then, we should accept technology and understand that technology almost always improves quality of life and strengthens the economy.

We should also keep in mind that every society and every country that has failed to adopt or pursue advances in technology has failed.

I'm not arguing for slowing down technology and technological change. I'm just saying putting your head in the sand about the # of good jobs elimination in the last 15 years and where this appears to be headed could lead to massive social unrest. 94% of jobs in the last 8 years have been part time jobs and most of the 6% of FT jobs aren't high quality ones - and virtually all of the income gains in the last 30 years have gone to the top 25%, and most in the top 5% - and this will likely accelerate in the next 20, 30 years.

The difference between humans building robots and past waves of tech prove my point. To be a human engineer designing robots you probably need an IQ of at least 115 - that means ~85% of the population couldn't do that job even if they wanted it. Meanwhile - people with an IQ of 85 could make a decent pay on a manufacturing assembly line 40 years ago.