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Comment by agumonkey

How do people on HN deal with the potential disappearance of work altogether ?

physical labour -> boston dynamics

office labour -> ~cloud + smartphones (i'm in an office job right now, and it's near zero work, it's full on redundancy, ambiguous and contradictory information, political friction.. any computer could replace the entire building and operate faster 24/7)

it's really not a huge stretch to predict 90% of tasks will just vanish

and i'm saying this with a human life approach. How do we organize cities / nations around that. Do we plan for smooth transition, say 40 years of gradually smarter tooling so people stay in charge but with advanced assist ? do we go UBI ? do we convert every human as a space tourist ?

parent agumonkey 5 years ago

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