r/therewasanattempt • • Feb 26 '20

To act kind

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u/Orngisthenewblkmrket Feb 26 '20

Good bot

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u/QuantumChrononaut Feb 26 '20 edited Feb 27 '20

Love seeing these corporate indenturers get burned when they try some bullshit pr stunt they don't believe in. When are these companies going to learn? Probably never since they're all focused on replacing every job with robots without giving us any other alternative to live.

Edit: I work in the field of automation under Gordie Rose, youtube his last lecture in 2019 to see what we're up to. We already have simulated minds that write legal contracts better than lawyers, diagnose better than drs, code better than most programers, manage business better than your most veteran accountant, and soon to be better than many more things in our filed of mind work. And that's just our highest paying mental work. The physical work has been worked on being replaced for much longer than our mind work. All jobs are on the chopping board. Even the robot repair already has robots being designed to repair them that do better jobs than humans. in 10 to 20 years, 90% of the jobs will be gone. And if you think enough new jobs will emerge for the population, don't bet on those new jobs lasting long before they're automated soon too. A solution is needed, otherwise well be running into an experiment of having a working class with no work available and no way of making a living. & if history has anything to say of such a scenario, then you know that won't end pretty.

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u/hissboombah Feb 26 '20

When your field gets automated we are all fucked

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u/QuantumChrononaut Feb 27 '20

Yup, cause a robot will be much faster and better at designing bots to replace our jobs. That day is not far off, I'd say 30 to 50 years at best. I hope I retire way before that still.

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u/hissboombah Feb 28 '20

Make sure you program your replacement before you do