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AI will eliminate jobs

dimanche 5 novembre 2017 à 01:00

An article argues that AI will eliminate half of all jobs in 10-20 years, and nearly all human work a couple of decades later.

It could happen.

However, that advance of technology will be in a race against global heating disaster that could destroy high-tech manufacturing entirely.

The article is too quick to conclude that we cannot either tax or ban robotic production.

There are tasks have to be done locally, and if we want to reserve those jobs for human workers, we can simply pass laws to do so. As for foreign robotic competition, we don't have to allow imported goods made by automation.

“Free trade” is just a trick to give power to the rich; we need to get rid of those treaties anyway.

We can also do as the Amish do: decide which technologies to adopt and which ones to reject.

I am not saying that limiting automation is necessarily the best option.

Nationalizing the robotic production, so that the former owners have to get their share of the robot-made bounty along with all the rest of us, might be better.

But if the robot masters stop us from doing that, the Amish option would be a good second choice.

SCROTUS' tax attacks

dimanche 5 novembre 2017 à 01:00

SCROTUS' tax attacks will “deposit a trillion and a half dollars into the bank accounts of the richest people in the country and then hands the bill to the middle class.”

Destroying law and human rights

dimanche 5 novembre 2017 à 01:00

We should know better by now than to respond to murder by destroying law and human rights.

The troll's idiotic treats

dimanche 5 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The troll's idiotic treats may have made a fair trial impossible for the New York truck terrorist.

He might get a mistrial; he might even get off.

Eliminate deductions

dimanche 5 novembre 2017 à 01:00

SCROTUS aim to eliminate deductions for medical expenses.

If we had Medicare for All, we wouldn't have crushing medical expenses, so we would need deductions for them.