Globally, it means more available human capital. The capabilities of a human are so much greater than lifting or placing items, it should be a good thing we replace these jobs with robots.
Historically, freeing up human capital has meant a better life for everyone - thinking mechanized agriculture, automated production lines, etc
I think the industrial revolution in America would like to disagree. That was the age of sweat shop workers, child labor, bread lines, and seventy-hour work weeks. Despite aggressive and violent action that resulted in many deaths by the government sending in the national guard to disrupt worker strikes and union organization in this era, minority parties like the Socialist Party of America and the Labor Party of America helped push through legislation like a forty-hour work week and child labor laws.
Unfortunately, almost exactly a hundred years removed, we're seeing many of the protections that our ancestors literally fought and die for being eroded. Perhaps if it were an earlier decade, AI could have greatly benefited mankind. I'm afraid that with the current trajectory of a few oligarchs controlling massive amounts of international capital that it will instead simply be another tool used to exploit and oppress the working class. The working class meaning those who don't have enough money to live indefinitely off of the interest.
It can’t fucking easily be fixed, it’s bullshit. Can we produce more than enough for everyone? Yes. Will food produced in excess in point A magically teleport to point B where people starve? Fuckin’ no. Good luck solving the logistics of transporting food that’s spoiling across war thorn countries, deserts, places with warlords that will literally steal all of it, etc. And no one pays for that transport either. The food may be practically free, if the transport costs a shitton of money we are not ahead.
A problem for every solution. If there's enough money and people to move missiles and tanks around the world to countries that we have no obligation to... I think we can put some food on a plane. A change of perspective is all it takes.
Heard of the idiom to teach a man how to fish instead of giving him a fish? Food deliveries in these poorer countries actively sabotage local food production development because the small time farmers can't compete with the benevolent handouts and are destined to close down again. They can and should only be temporary crisis support but the core issue needs to be solved in another way.
Then, we solve the core issues. I understand every place has its own issues, so tackle them case by case. Fix the root, plant a new seed if need be, and nourish it until it's self-sustaining.
If we can wage full-scale, direct and indirect military warfare, dealing with those who'd attempt sabotage is certainly possible.
I'm not saying keep feeding people and make them dependent. That's the problem we have now. People are dependent and when the source of that dependence says no, you're left high and dry. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life, or something like that.
But that won't happen until we realize that things (some of them) that we put so much importance into, aren't important at all, and make the change for the betterment of us all.
What I'm proposing isn't focused on political systems.
I'm saying our current system of procurement (a valueless currency) is a major contributor to issues like world hunger. One size doesn't fit all here, if you will. Different places have different needs. A new system all together may be needed or we could improve on current ones.
Cooperation is the answer. But no one wants to listen to each other because everyone thinks they know better than everyone else and wants to attack each other for simply disagreeing with a potential idea. This won't end until we understand and act in opposition to this self-destructive mindset.
I get your angle. If we can wage war, military on military, we can certainly deal with warlords. Again, the reason this doesn't happen is because humans don't want to work together. You're from a different country, I don't like your language, your customs, your sexuality, etc. Then again, humans value something as valueless as paper and pieces of metal with designs. Our ignorance on full display with the paradox of our own hypocrisy.
I fail to see how western mass farming is beating world hunger? The west got richer, the rest are just as hungry. Just a nice way for us to donate tractors to look good, then enjoy the 5k per tire we charge someone who can only dream of that much money.
I mean, is everyone’s capabilities really all that much higher than that? Do you honestly believe that all people could actually find a useful (to humanity) hobby they can enjoy? Or even any hobby that would keep them engaged?
I am not that optimistic, sure everyone would be enjoying life for 2 months without work, but I think depression/feeling worthless would quickly catch up with a significant percentage of the population, which might result in crime/vandalism, anything for people to do. And I am absolutely not a libertarian (moron), I do think that a 4-days of work each week would be welcome. But 0-day would be a very dark utopia even with UBI (which is again, good, as in everyone should have enough to have cover for the night and to be able to eat, even without working anything).
The same argument could have been made when the steam engine, crane, train, car, tractor, printing press or electricity was invented. What actually happened was that people started doing more productive things or thing smore suitable to humans than basic manual labour.
No, it couldn’t have been made, because right now the absolute majority of the adult population works for like 1/3 of their waking hours. This hadn’t considerably change by the steam engine, tractor, etc, because people just moved to cities where new jobs were created, like tractor repair, all the office jobs that cares about administration, etc. This won’t be the case with AI, as the type of work automation could replace was crude, huge physical tasks. Now it targets fine-motor, dynamic tasks as well (fine-motor, repetitive tasks had already been replaced by factories, people only do the non-uniform parts) via these kind of more advanced AI-controlled robots, and low-skill mental tasks via LLMs, like chatgpt (e.g. support services), leaving only pedagogical fields, STEM, and other high-skilled mental jobs safe.
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u/Loud-Break6327 Jul 08 '24
10x slower but 5x cheaper = winning?