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Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by sremani on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:56PM (#17709491)
Here is a true beauty that people should read..

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKCAMP1960...

John F Kennedy talking about how automation is going to change America in 1960.

Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by sp527 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:14PM (#17709656)
What I really want to read about is why otherwise intelligent people lazily default to pattern matching when changing facts suggest they should change their mind.
Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by rohit2412 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:03PM (#17711279)
And I think the red zone is a century away. We have no understanding of how our brains work, yet alone making devices as smart as we are in causal reasoning.
Re:Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming autom... by sp527 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:15AM (#17713804)
That's the misconception. AGI is very unlikely to happen in our lifetimes due to prohibitive physical limits. But you don't need AGI to disenfranchise more or less 90+% of humans.

I find smarter people tend to broadly overestimate human potential. We are unreliable, tire, are often untrustworthy, make mistakes, are subject to emotions, prone to illogic and irrationality, etc. We're a very suboptimal entropy-reducing machine relative to the forms of purpose-built AI and robotics that will be possible within the next 20 years. It's a shame people aren't more alarmed about this.