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Emily Howell
« on: September 13, 2015, 05:32:29 PM »

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Re: Emily Howell
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2015, 06:54:33 PM »
Being a Luddite is not a solution. When 2% of the population owns the robots that do 98% of the work and want 98% of the money as a result, then it will be impossible to sell 98% of the production, because no one has earned enough to buy anything.

Either we have some form of distribution of products to people who have been replaced (indistinguishable from putting everyone on the dole) or we turn the ownership of the robots to the general population (indistinguishable from Socialism).  Or the third alternative, which is collapse and starvation. (call it failed capitalism).

In the case of horses, they simply stopped breeding them. I don't see this happening with humans.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

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Re: Emily Howell
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2015, 09:13:22 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsCAM17O-M&feature=player_detailpage


   All right ,then we will all have a third parent , a computer that will teach us everything and stick to us for life.

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Re: Emily Howell
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2015, 01:52:10 PM »
Clever, but I don't think people would go for it.
Would you like to be stuck for life to a computer?
And whoever programmed that computer would easily control you.

No thanks.
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Re: Emily Howell
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2015, 07:33:12 PM »

Would you like to be stuck for life to a computer?
This is already happening with my cell phone , I don't memorize numbers anymore.
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And whoever programmed that computer would easily control you.



Yep, that is the potential problem, but isn't it already a problem?

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Re: Emily Howell
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2015, 10:07:34 PM »
I am not controlled by anything except myself.
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