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wateroverfire posted:For example: For the first one, you can have the employees spot check each other. Later in the story there's a mention that Manna makes an effort to keep employees from interacting with each other, like if you worked at a grocery store, you could go the entire day without being in the same aisle as another employee. Once employees no longer interact, they don't have any loyalty to each other. When Manna tells you to go to the bathroom and report on the cleanliness, you're going to do it. Sure, it breaks down if all the employees organize, but that's kind of a far fetched unbelievable fantasy. As for ordering, that's already automated in a lot of industries. As soon as you buy a product at Wal-Mart, another one gets ordered. All they really have to do is account for shrinkage. You don't necessarily need to replace every worker, you just need to replace some of them, consolidate some jobs, etc.
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I work in IT, at my last job, doing desktop support, I could probably have cut the department by a third over the course of a year or two with only a small initial outlay. There was one time when they wanted to do an inventory of every computer in the company, and they'd divvied it up among everyone expecting to take a week or two. I got the required information overnight with about five lines of code in Powershell. These were all smart people with a good background in technology, and if they were automated out of a job, they'd be looking for other work. That's the second threat that people forget, even if a job is safe from automation, it's not safe from newly unemployed people with a more advanced skillset.
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We just need to automate the capital class.
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silence_kit posted:I'm sure that the fuel and maintenance costs of a jumbo jet dwarf the pilot's labor cost. I would be shocked if the airlines would be that motivated to do away with trained human pilots. Only if the autopilot is more efficient than the human pilot in terms of maintenance and fuel cost. If autopilot can perform smoother landings at optimal speeds, it would pay to keep the human from touching things unless it's an emergency.
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Dec 6, 2016 05:16
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And even if a specific job can't be automated, there are smarter, more talented people working in higher paying jobs that are going to be automated, and then you're going to be competing against them, and since they're desperate, they'll take a pay cut.
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Dec 23, 2016 17:31
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BobTheJanitor posted:I mean, if things get real bad and we don't have any plans in place, there will be a solution, but it's not going to be a good one. Once the riots and wars destroy all the technology along with half of the population, we'll no longer have the problem of joblessness to worry about! Just remember to not blow up the automated food factories.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:So I haven't had time to scan the thread too much, but I have a question for people more acquainted with automation issues than me: My girlfriend is going through Pharmacy school now. I've strongly encouraged her to acquire additional skills to allow her to do something beyond just retail pharmacy. It looks like there's some push to give pharmacists more ability to provide primary care, like administering vaccines, etc.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:31
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Uncle Jam posted:Yeah I know those button machines but I always end up talking to the person I give the ticket to about the order, and once you have the food you can add on while eating like more noodles and how to cook the noodles. They are really nice for people who don't speak the language.
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Jan 6, 2017 01:44
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Solkanar512 posted:Google? It's hard to say given that all their testing is internal and they experience twice as many accidents per mile than a human does. Do they experience more accidents per mile, or do they report twice as many accidents per mile?
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Jan 11, 2017 18:02
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I think parking garages will become more common. Instead of having gigantic lots in front of every store, you'll just have loading/drop-off areas and your car will store itself 5 minutes away until you summon it. It'll create a whole new mess of problems at first, what do you do when the pick up area is full of cars waiting for their passengers who are still shopping, but your car is waiting to get in?
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Jan 16, 2017 21:03
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With an Uber driver, you can yell at them, but how do you make a self driving car pull back around and come back in five minutes?
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Jan 17, 2017 00:51
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Maybe shorten it to "PuH"
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Feb 7, 2017 23:44
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‘What If We Try This?’ Asks Robotics Grad Student About To Eliminate 30% Of Workforce
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Feb 22, 2017 23:30
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If we really wanted to automate taxes, we'd have the IRS do the calculations first, and then send you a form saying "This is what we think you should get, click here to accept, or do it yourself if you think it's not right."
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Feb 25, 2017 22:19
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Guavanaut posted:Especially since sometimes those emotions include stuff like "black guys don't really feel pain as much and are just drug seeking." We can teach a computer to think that.
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Just throwing this out there, has anyone tried automating capital and/or wealthy people?
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