Automation

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I, For One, Welcome Our New Nazi Robot Overlords

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Wut? But how?

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I've been reading a lot lately about the causes of isolationism and non-assimilation that is such a huge problem in muslin communities in Europe, and one thing I keep seeing crop up is that so many European communities gave so much welfare to immigrants that they were never forced to get along with natives to get by. And it makes me think of the looming threat of automation-induced joblessness.

What happens to an already polarized society when UBI ensures that no one has to put aside their differences because they have to go to a place for 8 hours a day that contains people they may not agree with? What happens when the echo chamber playground for adults that is social media - adults who clearly want the benefit of being taken seriously without earning it through actual effort - essentially becomes real life? When you finally have that IRL "block button" because you can literally decide to never interact with a person again when they offend your most trivial of sensibilities?

But there simply is no putting the march of technology back in the bottle.

I've been thinking this for a while now: today's bogeyman is wall street, because yada yada yada evil 1-percenters. Tomorrow's bogeyman will be silicon valley, and the charge will be that they betrayed us with dreams of robot cars and tone-policing AI, but didn't tell us our paychecks would go away for it.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

But there simply is no putting the march of technology back in the bottle.

We can always hope it marches into a wall of sorts. AI is already proving unpredictable and unreliable in certain areas and effectively serves at best to make the lives of truck drivers easier until a rain storm hits. Have you heard about that security droid at the white house that drowned itself to death in three inches of water? Then there's the physical limitations of processors that we're already having trouble with as we can no longer make the CPU circuitry any smaller. It might not turn out as bad as we fear.

 

[Picklepower]

Could there be any resistance to this? Or is life gonna get even more fucked?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Could there be any resistance to this? Or is life gonna get even more fucked?

Well, if China continues inflating its real estate bubble, we won't be seeing much competition from them much longer.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Could there be any resistance to this? Or is life gonna get even more fucked?

No. Progress won't be stopped no matter how many problems it may raise.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

No. Progress won't be stopped no matter how many problems it may raise.

Progress is a steamroller, crushing everything in the way of the future.

 

[Power Armor]

JOBS THAT CAN NOT BE REPLACED BY ROBOTS:

Porn. Unless you're a sick fuck like homer who jacks it to vidya.

There exists a legion of people just waiting for the day they get to ram their dick inside an android.

 

[Mysterious Capitalist]

A very interesting video about it (also, that channel is pretty good and I recommend watching their other content to anyone interested)

Anyway, I personally would make government backed "human quotas" (like the minorities quota we have now) for companies. The more humans you hire, the more tax advantages you get. This would make very small, human only, local shops thrive again, I think, while keeping the automation in check for bigger companies. It could also attract multinationals to pay taxes in you Country because it's more advantaged than the others, if you play your cards right.