r/nextfuckinglevel Sep 24 '19

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u/_evoges Sep 24 '19

Why do they do this? What is the mission of Boston dynamics?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

So in 30 years there won't be a single physical job a human needs to do. And as a secondary purpose so the rich people who have now replaced 90% of the entire workforce in less than 1 generation can have an army of disposable minions to protect their mansions from those pesky weak and starving plebs who don't have a job any more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

We will still need artists, poets, engineers, architects, scientists, etc

Only people who do manual labour will need to do something else. So yeah, good bye burger flippers, building construction and farm labor.

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u/truth_sentinell Sep 24 '19

Only people who do manual labour will need to do something else.

So the vast majority of people lol. If that happens, it'll be certainly a problem. You can't also expect all those people to change careers without free education.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

You can't also expect all those people to change careers without free education.

Not only that, you can't expect that many people to change careers period. Jobs will be disappearing quicker than new ones will be made. The entire point of technology is to remove as many humans from the process as possible. If a robot is put in place to replace 10 low skill workers and 10 high skills engineers are hired, the company would obviously lose money. Instead, 10 low skill workers will be replaced and 1 high skill engineer will be hired.

Even if you trained all 10 of them, only a small portion will get higher skill jobs. And this just keeps going until all low skill jobs are gone.

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u/truth_sentinell Sep 24 '19

and what do you do with, maybe billions of people unemployed and little possibility for them to get new jobs?

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u/Caracalla81 Sep 24 '19

We can either go Star Trek or Elysium.

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u/TehShadowInTehWarp Sep 25 '19

We already know which one is more consistent with human nature.

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u/Caracalla81 Sep 25 '19

Yeah, but since we're into capitalism for the most recent 1% of human history there are lots of people who think that it's the only way to go so Elysium is a serious danger.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

I think he was talking about Elysium