tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post1604790454915920496..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "Automation vs. Innovation"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-56320649659011683482014-08-12T15:57:31.456-04:002014-08-12T15:57:31.456-04:00It'd be nice to be able to tell the future, wo...It'd be nice to be able to tell the future, wouldn't it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-88144341223568045682014-08-12T15:03:57.455-04:002014-08-12T15:03:57.455-04:00So turning machines into people is unlikely. But p...So turning machines into people is unlikely. But people have a odd way of eventually not wanting to be turned into machines. Rail about the minimum wage and "union thugs" all you like, still, what will you do when you run out of low-wage slave countries to offshore operations to? Labor the world over is becoming more recalcitrant.<br /><br />Why not cyborgs, or human-machine hybrids? Isn't that the dream of the $ingularity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-8054650902101561702014-08-11T21:53:08.865-04:002014-08-11T21:53:08.865-04:00I speak of those who think they understand economi...I speak of those who think they understand economics but do not. I meet them all the time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-72460118040950125802014-08-11T16:41:33.794-04:002014-08-11T16:41:33.794-04:00i would like to correct an error you often make: y...i would like to correct an error you often make: you write that it's "autistic geeknerds" who push for ever more automation and computerization. well, as one of those aforementioned "autistic geeknerds": we aren't. <br />it's management, journalists, the "i fucking love science" crowd, people who couldn't set up their own routers in their home without help. they might or might not stumbled through college/uni and gotten a degree in STEM or IT, it doesn't matter. they are still as incompetent as they were before and they conflate science with magic.<br />people who actually know science and tech also know it's limitations. we know that there won't be any robots and machines that can come close to the flexibility and effectiveness of even just a 90 IQ worker outside of some very narrow, very specific tasks in some limited applications.<br />and we know that, unless the idiots keep raising the cost of human labor with hiking up the minimum wage and the like, phasing out human labor won't be cheaper either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-19223067462385703102014-08-11T14:07:10.784-04:002014-08-11T14:07:10.784-04:00Who wants to bet that a forced sterilzation and/or...Who wants to bet that a forced sterilzation and/or forced eugenics movement might become politically feasible in the future if a near irredeemable underclass like that in the article emerges?The Acenoreply@blogger.com