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Trent posted:This nightmare scenario makes no sense. What would ask this robot manufacturing be making? Why would the capital class want to make a bunch of stuff if no one else can buy it? They can't all just sell yachts to each other for very long. BrandorKP posted:If you can turn the activities of your job into a flow chart your job probably will be automated eventually.
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It's worth noting that Marx's analysis relied on technology as labour enhancing rather than replacing, and it's the growing proportion of dead labour in the form of capital that leads to a decreasing rate of profit. It's a pretty good model, and the same one used by the likes of Smith and modern economists today, but there is no special reason machine can't essentially replace all labour, and conversely, there are some jobs that not everyone can do. So if anything the crisis comes sooner than that.
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Oddly enough, autonomous cars may actually assist transit, in the right situations. You robocar to the rail station, train into urban areas, the bus or robocar to work. You could maybe also do it with other options like biking or walking. If done properly, you could actually reduce congestion. Something I'm really existing about though is the idea of variable bus routes. So suppose everyone had a smart phone, you enter where you are and need to go. That gets sent to a computer which them aggregates you requests with everyone else's, to generate a set of lines, created dynamically. The phone app then tells you which buses you get on and which transfers to make. Interesting, no? You could pull of the same thing with a taxi fleet, or a mix of taxis and buses, if you can get the whole thing automatic.
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Jan 16, 2016 07:02
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Driverless forklifts are definitely going to kill jobs sooner than driverless trucks, because you have much finer control of the environment. A fully automated logistics train is kind scary, and is probably what Amazon is trying to aim for here. Kinda hoping though that other companies step up their game, because if that future is coming, it'll be bad if Amazon is the only player there.
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Jan 17, 2016 06:56
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Necc0 posted:These already exist:
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Jan 17, 2016 08:43
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Paul MaudDib posted:Fundamentally the maxim that >= 1.0 jobs must necessarily be created for every job displaced is loving stupid. We've reached a level of society that would have been considered post-scarcity by someone just a century ago, and we use less and less manpower to do it. People need money to live, so we've created a massive service sector, but the day has finally arrived where that too can be automated. Even "complex" jobs like driving are starting to look pretty iffy.
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I hear you can solve overfitting by making your cost function more curvy-like, just like in real statistics.
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