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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by nice_byte on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:21PM (#35533074)
> If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad?

because you have exactly two use cases under that "utopia": backbreaking labor that robots aren't good at yet, and source of Soylent green.

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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by nice_byte on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:26PM (#35533116)
that is assuming there are still tasks that robots are not good at, which I predict will remain the case for a long time. without those, humans just become unnecessary biomass. anyway, if you expect some part of these fantasies to come to pass within your lifetime, expect to give up your reproductive rights in exchange for ubi or some such.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by nh23423fefe on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:40AM (#35555286)
Just like cells in an organism, is apoptosis murder or reclamation?
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