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Are you scared of robots taking your job / taking other people's jobs?
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: McJob on November 21, 2017, 07:10:11 PM ---As a designer/programmer/writer/community manager, no. All of these jobs are based in your ability to empathise and form abstract connections, which technology will not be capable of doing to the same extent of humanity for a very long time.
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CGP Grey disagrees https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=7m24s
Mardalf:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on November 21, 2017, 07:18:58 PM ---CGP Grey disagrees https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=7m24s
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Anybody can make a mistake
Foxscotch:
hard to say. with the right society, more and more automation would result in significantly decreased cost of living, for everyone. it would become reasonable to have a small universal basic income to allow those without not-yet-automated skills to survive. free education would also significantly ease the burden, giving those people the opportunity to gain skills in fields they've been interested in but could never afford to learn about
the united states however is definitely the worst place for it to start, because people would rather allow those who lose their jobs to automation starve than support them, and corporations would likely choose to keep their prices the same despite their reduced costs
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on November 21, 2017, 07:18:58 PM ---CGP Grey disagrees https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=7m24s
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That's talking about stuff like data entry, online support, stuff like that. He literally says in the video that people have jobs, to replace other jobs. That's the literal worst case scenario for getting your job replaced as a programmer and even then he admits that you're unlikely to get replaced by a robot.
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on November 21, 2017, 07:30:48 PM ---That's talking about stuff like data entry, online support, stuff like that. He literally says in the video that people have jobs, to replace other jobs. That's the literal worst case scenario for getting your job replaced as a programmer and even then he admits that you're unlikely to get replaced by a robot.
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It also talks about more creative jobs later on https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=11m17s