• mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    11 months ago

    Cory Doctorow is an idiot writer? Do you know of him and you’ve reached this conclusion, or you don’t know who he is and just throwing shade?

    I am curious. How much follow-up do you do after your automations 1 year later to see how the profit and loss picture of the department has worked out after your work is done?

    (Not that that’s the point; I think you’ll get very little sympathy here for “I help the already-rich to keep more of the productive output of the world and make sure workers keep less” even if you can make an argument that you can do it effectively.)

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        11 months ago

        You’re still working simultaneously with dozens of different organizations? Maybe I’m misunderstanding something.

        Stopping or stalling productivity improvements is stupid, that job is effectively useless if it can be automated, it’s nothing more than make-work to keep it. We should pass laws to redistribute wealth to solve that problem, not keep them in useless jobs by preventing automation.

        Like a lot of things, the devil is in the details. Almost everyone’s firsthand experience with consultants coming in and enacting “efficiency” is that it’s bad for both the employees obviously, but also bad for the business. I’m not saying that’s the impact of what you’re doing, just what most people’s experience is going to be.

        So there’s a central question in AI: Once the machines can do everything for us, does that mean everyone eats for free? Or no one eats? What would your answer to that question be?

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          does that mean everyone eats for free? Or no one eats?

          Yes.

          Everyone eats for free… but the machines don’t need to eat, so why produce any food at all. That soy and corn getting used to feed caged animals for human consumption? Turn it into biofuel to power the machines. The hordes of hungry protestors?.. more biofuel.