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It's a lot harder to clean a house than it is to terminate some smart ass on a message board. :yep:
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Could even go to a virtual presence at some point.... no person in the truck cab.... but a virtual operator oversees the truck like a drone pilot would.
Cut that workforce down to like 10% of what it is now.
This is what I keep talking about in B&I.... these "bootstraps" jobs are dying out.... they won't even exist soon and most of them don't pay enough for people to live off of them right now.
Drones piloted by humans or AI or some combo are going to start replacing a ton of unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.
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Murder bots need to be able to pick up a weapon, aim it, and decide what to shoot.... if your murder bot has a gun and shoots your couch, table, TV, coffee table, stairs, walls, treadmill, cabinets, fridge, freezer, sink, dog, cat.... it will run out of ammo before it gets to you.
It is actually alot harder than you would think.... you need bots that can detect living beings, perhaps differentiate between them, and then kill them.
At the very least it would need to be able to determine living things vs non-living and kill all the living stuff, and then be able to determine living thing is dead so it can go kill other living stuff.
And I remind you, we struggle to get them to maintain a traffic lane.
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How would a rape-bot work?
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Probably nonstop.
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I heard Urblock keeps one in his back yard named Rango. Even high fences don't stop it.
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I think a kill bot would be easier to make actually. All it has to do is make warm moving things not warm or moving.
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Reading this makes it clear why women don't post here. :lol:
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I predict self driving cars will usher in a golden age of liquor consumption.
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Skilled jobs are heading for automation in some parts. I'd argue flying an airplane is a pretty skilled job, and it can suffer the same fate as a truck driver. Hell planes today already can basically fly themselves assuming the systems don't fail. Eventually you will just need a pilot who sits there and monitors things, but they won't really ever have to do anything unless something goes wrong. Given things don't go wrong with planes all too often (though it may seem so based on the media), are airlines going to continue to pay pilots much of anything? No, probably not. Eventually some airline will take the chance on it being pilotless and if it works well the people will eventually go for it (assuming these people themselves still have jobs to afford to fly).
You already see the bootstraps folks saying "go to school, gain a skill, get job". That's all good and dandy until you realize there's millions of people all looking for the same job and only one is going to get it.
Right now there are allegedly 123.96 full time jobs as of November 2016 in the United States. Labor participation is down from 66% in 2008 to 62.7% in 2015. Right now there are more people getting hired than fired in America, but back in May 2016 a report came out saying there were 5.8 million job openings, many of which companies say they are having a hard time finding skilled qualified workers to fill those jobs. Now I see it in my own company often in which they either have unrealistic expectations, or they sell a job as being something it completely is not and I've seen those jobs take forever to get filled.
Its estimated 90 million Americans who are over 16 years old do not have jobs, that number of course is misleading...
-16-17 years olds are still in high school and don't necessarily need a job, and if they do, they likely don't work full time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates approximately 9 million of that 90 million are in this category.
-Then you have people who are enrolled in two or four year colleges... that's 21 million
-Then you have people who are 65 or older and have retired.. that's 40 million.
So subtract that from the 90 million and you have 20 million people of are of work eligibility and don't have jobs for whatever reasons. Each will have their own stories, some are disabled, some don't work, some may be stay at home moms who live off their husband's pay. Some are probably those welfare queens people love to complain about.. but I imagine a good number of that is simply people who cannot find jobs for whatever reason and are stuck in a rut. And my fear is that number will only grow over the years as we eliminate easy occupation fields. And with our current political climate, I don't imagine our government will do much about it.
Of course automation will still create jobs in other fields, but I don't foresee that number being high enough to support a population.
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Software and automation can replace all jobs eventually. There is a reason why management roles(titles to make people feel better) have replaced actual management duties. A person has a hard time competing with the efficiency of a machine. The more machines in place at the lowest levels, the less management and supervision is needed.
It's an up-and-down the ladder issue. Quite cute when people make it out to predominantly affect one part of the ladder more than the other.
It's an up-and-down the ladder issue. Quite cute when people make it out to predominantly affect one part of the ladder more than the other.
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So what's the anarcho-capitalism solution to no more jobs? Just curious.
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Anarcho-capitalism is non-utopian and decentralized. That's like asking ,what's the winds solution to no more air?
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give it the soul of some middle eastern extremist..
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This isn't a self-driving Kangaroo thread
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truth is truth.. i hear yours...
i cant help it the middle east is the rape capital of the world... #1rapers..ft em baklakaa em
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Wait until mechanical trolls replace all you.
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