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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by jon_richards on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:20AM (#15432439)
Horses used to be used for practically everything. The first commercial steam engine pumped water from mines and was measured in "horsepower", the the rate at which a horse could continuously pump water. Then steam engines replaced freight hauling. Then personal transport. Don't see many working horses now.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by musage on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:30AM (#15432471)
Don't see many horses at all. That is, the offspring of those working horses certainly doesn't roam about in pastures, to pursue happiness because there are no jobs that require them.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by pygy_ on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:49AM (#15432786)
I've read here that the obsolete horses helped bootstrap the pet food industry...
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by tbirrell on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:06PM (#15435048)
That was not something I needed to know.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by dsego on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:46AM (#15434208)
In Pursuit of Honor (1995)

> The movie follows the plight of the officers as they attempt to save the animals that the Army no longer needs as it modernizes toward a mechanized military.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113399/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Pursuit_of_Honor

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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by deepGem on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:18AM (#15432657)
Are you implying that human population could ultimately decline, because of AI and automation ? If so, why is that undesirable.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by strken on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:53AM (#15433060)
Some believe that a human life has intrinsic value, even outside the value of the species as a whole and even outside the value of that human's labour.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by deepGem on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:21AM (#15433987)
True, but some believe that population growth has to stabilise at some point.
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Re:A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs? by eloisant on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:52AM (#15434896)
It is stabilizing already, natality in developing countries dropped much faster than what was expected.
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