What will happen when computers take most of the jobs?
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Thread Topic: What will happen when computers take most of the jobs?
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Humans dont need health insurance either, and often dont receive it from their employer.
The main fallacy in the whole scenerio is mistaking our modern civilization for the totality of human economy and capability in terms of society.
that is to say, human neccesity drives the work force. Period. If somehow we do not, it means we're extinct.
We actually are behind the schedule according to moores law which you dont seem to fully understand. Moores actual prediction was that the number of transistors per sqaure inch would double expotentially for the foreseeable future. Since that prediction in 65, if we had actually met his expectations, we would be packing around 4 billion per instead of the 1 billion reality.
More transistors equals more power. Transistors are made of silicone doped with phosphorous or boron, and in order to put more of them on a proccessor we minimize the gaps between one silicone channel and the other.
When we fist started, gaps were large enough to see with the naked eye. Now theyre going at 32 nano meters across. Thats only the width of a few hundred atoms. We're worrying at this point about problems like the microchips heating up to the point they melt through the hardware and then melt through the floor, and dealing with spaces so small that a few stray electrons can seriously effect the reliability of the computer. -
Yes I understand about the creativity in jobs thing not being most jobs - sometimes I just think about a big part of an idea and don't think about everything. But with things like acting, what about preference of real people in movies? Animation-only movies might not be popular so real people would be used even if it was more expensive.
I think slim might have a point - how much more advanced can we even go? There's been a huge revolution of technology the past 100 years but can we really get to sci-fi standards?
However if computers did replace most jobs then I think Wendee's idea is right and they'd give people money to live on as money itself could never disappear. Some people would still have jobs though (if only to keep an eye on the computers) so would the jobs pay more than the allowance everyone else gets?
Also don't overlook the fact that people could still look at it and think "This isn't good for us, we need to give people purposes" and even put humans back into roles that computers have taken. -
Thats not at all what i said.
I said that no matter how advanced we get, its unlikely that computers will ever replace humans. -
Yes it is, you said we're almost at its peak or something.
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I mentioned we were hitting roofs with computing technology, but that was a sidenote that geek wanted to explore. Not my main point
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But you still said it
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Currently other materials are being looked into with the potential of being more powerful than silicon.
But, for that we'll just have to see what happens :P
Also, human logic 101. When a human can avoid working they undoubtedly will stop working lions. -
Honestly, I can see computers eventually taking over Humanity, but I'm really not sure how self-sustaining they could be. Although, a super-advanced AI with the computing and learning power of even a child would probably solve the vast majority of most robotic problems... If that AI was somehow miraculously preserved for several centuries.
How come no-one's mentioned that we might advance our own species rather than computers? I mean, I know computers are very advanced, but they're sole usage in our existence has been to serve us. We're still extremely edgy about AI yet already we've experimented with removing (Melo-something can't remember) to give us super-strength and... Well, vaccines! If a single vaccine was adjusted to cover all major illnesses (which we have, but not on any major scale), we would have supreme super-immunosystems and nothing but the most vile of Earth-foreign bacteriae could kill us.
We also have laser eye surgery which has been used to actually improve eyesight beyond the regular vision threshold (20/20 m90). Not to mention we're currently experimenting on manually choosing human gene probability (basically whether a child is more likely to have blue or green eyes). The only thing we've pretty much left alone is our own brains, but even that's been touched.
Seriously, why has no-one considered that we might advance our [b]own[/i] species rather than constructing some super-computer race that could possibly drive us to extinction? -
Oh, and look up 'Myostatin experimentation' for crazy-buff animals.
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Think mass effect ;D
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You son of a b---- I just finished that yesterday that ALWAYS happens >:O
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_The_Dude_ NewbiePoor baby
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Gtfo, wanname.
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You just finished mass effect??? The while trilogy or just the first
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Get a new line Joker.
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