I believe Automation is incoming but it's not going to wipe out as many jobs as we think. A focus on social/community workers will still be needed to keep structures intact and ethical. What do you think?

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    So there's two key milestones we're coming up on here, that ultimately amount to the effect of "this time it's different":

    • Robotic dexterity meeting/exceeding the dexterity of a human arm at general tasks
    • The automation of intelligence in addition to the automation of mechanical tasks

    This is really dangerous. We've never faced this issue, and the reason for that is for the first time in history, as these new jobs are invented, the robots are better right out of the gate before the humans even get a swing at it, while existing jobs are also taken at an unprecedented rate.

    • HighestDifficulty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not disagreeing, but I'm trying to express that more jobs will be created as a consequence of more automation and because of a cascading number of factors there will be more jobs for humans than ever....at some undefined point, it could take thousands of years to stabilize. Machines can't make machines that make machines that make machines. You need humans at every point as things get more complex you need more refinement, supervision and upkeep. We're talking billions of humans vs trillions of machines potentially. That on paper is enough jobs for everyone. But do we really all want to be robot caretakers until the point the singularity kicks in and we really are fucked?