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  • I totally agree! I think progress is the way to go, aside from death. And soul killing jobs have to die out with progress.

    But the problem is i don’t think the current technological level of automation is even close enough to replace a significant enough portion of these jobs.

    Because if they can, we won’t have basically all the rich assholes pay a sum in the billions in lobbying to make sure workers are always available to them on the cheap, with the least amount of protection against exploitation. They wouldn’t try to so hard to put down strikes, higher wages, unions, less working hours, job security, etc. They wouldn’t care as much because a machine would be way cheaper and never complains.

    Our technology has to progress and imporve way more to make it possible. Progress that’s based on research, trial and error, investments, talent and raising talent and skill, and all kinds of things that cut down on immediate profits. Basically the antithesis to the current economical model that all those fucks are horny for.

    To me this is the same as if in the middle ages a king was like “just kill all the peasants and make the wizards summon fully obedient servants to do the necessary work”. While their wizards are still trying to figure out how to take a rabbit out of a hat.


  • One way for me to get the push for this, is to tell them beforehand that i have something personal about myself I’d like to share with them as a close friend.

    For example, i wanted to share something personal with a friend once, and i knew he’d take it very well and be supportive, but i was still super nervous to bring it up. So i texted him few days before i knew I’d see him saying something like “hey, when we meetup, I’d like to talk to you about something personal about me. It’s not bad, but it’s a face to face conversation, and it’s something I’d like to share with you :)”.

    This way, i had no choice but to tell him when we met. In fact, he brought it up to me instead, making it so much easier to just “do it” like the others commented.


  • As they actively destroy any chance of progress in computing? Probably even degressing it by supporting the AI bubble? Good luck with having robots that can’t do more than 5% of the basics of what an average human can do :)

    Sure it’ll be able to do it very “efficiently”, but that efficiency is extremely relative at best, and sacrifices way more in the background making it less efficient overall.

    Too bad the people running these companies can’t see beyond their next quarterly numbers to know this, or know how business, technology, the economy, or how humans work.