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Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier by nkrisc on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:32PM (#10852988)
At that point perhaps our society will have to recognize that we've reached the point where we simply don't need the entire population working. There's nothing inherently wrong with a fraction of the population working to support the rest of it, assuming everyone's on board. It might not be a easy change, but I imagine something like that will happen eventually.
Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier by IanDrake on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:38PM (#10853059)
>assuming everyone's on board

I'm on board with surfing all day while you maintain the robots to make my food. Is that cool with you?

Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:42PM (#10853101)
Not GP, but yeah, it's cool with me. I can use some break from coding my own projects, but not too much. :).
Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier by nkrisc on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:27PM (#10853910)
Sure. And I'll have a bigger house, better food and more luxuries in compensation for volunteering my time to help support humanity.
Re:The Myth of AI – Jaron Lanier by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @02:35PM (#10853027)
Hence, IanDrake's point 2) in the comment upthread.