Robots/AI future, we need a full blown welfare state but not state socialism
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2013 May 10, 1:22am 395,594 views 61 comments
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Rin
2013 May 23, 3:53am
Another 'bot posting.
Let's stick to one robot thread, the one which discusses the outcomes, and not let the posts scatter around.
freak80
2013 Sep 15, 11:24am
I didn't create the world around me but now that I've arrived, I'm gravely concerned about the decades ahead.
But the Baby Boomers say it's all our fault for not working hard enough. You know, the usual far-right drivel.
Tenpoundbass
2016 Aug 6, 7:44am
The Space age the Jet age the (blah blah blah) age.
This wont end any different. At first in the 50's and 60's both of those concepts were over thought.
Folks imagined jet engines on ever car, a personal jet engine back pack. Then the space age, we were all supposed to be living on Jupiter Terraces by now. A Space Station condominium in Space.
What we got in reality was far more practical. But nothing nobody prognosticated would really happen correctly, even though equally fantastic.
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DOGEWontAmountToShit
2023 Sep 5, 6:44pm
More on this subject ...
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation
So far, this hasn't aged well.
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Yes, it's true, in the future, robotic/expert systems will perform much of the work, which is paying our bills today.
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Thus, it's imperative that we plan for the collapse of functional society, as a *function* of Moore's Law. This planning, however, should not result in what the conservatives fear... the Nanny State of Sweden or some other nation with exorbitant "cradle-to-grave" taxes.
Instead, the govt will need to exert a type of CPU/bandwidth cost averaging type of surcharge/tax, on computing services. This will need to be paid by all users, corporate and individual. Then, as time goes by, we need to determine which group of workers will be structurally displaced and put 'em on social assistance. This money will then be put back into the economy, so that the money velocity of sorts is retained.
As Moore's Law keeps accelerating up its parabola, more and more people will be out of work and on welfare. In the end, it'll only be the owners and the top AI/expert system designers, who'll be employed. All other work will be done by machines. When that occurs, we'll have a stable welfare society with the elite dole bungers, producing literature, music, and the arts.