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To: Black Agnes
Perhaps the right approach is to be the machine builder. That has been my niche since the early 80's. The robot builder/maintainer is the new wave of jobs replacing the manual laborer. Washing machines freed people from standing by the river with a scrub board all day.

The current wave of software inside business is "work flow" related. Specialized rule/inferencing engines doing expert work, then passing the product to the next node in the workflow. Twenty years ago I radically updated a computer system to perform a task in 3 days that took 6 months in a prior generation. Faster computers have shaved that to one day.

We adapt to a changing world.

29 posted on 01/24/2014 9:25:41 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

AI will replace that too eventually.

How many humans can support a family doing the machine building/support job until even those are mostly replace by AI? How many men could support a wife and 2 or 3 kids with those type of jobs? What do you do with the rest of humanity given that there probably isn’t the need for 6B of those jobs?

What about humans with IQ’s less than say, 120? Let them starve in the streets? Pay astronomical income taxes to let the state support them?

It’s not necessarily the tech I don’t trust. It’s the elites control of that. And their motives.


31 posted on 01/24/2014 9:28:37 AM PST by Black Agnes
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