Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I

Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I by sublinear on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:48PM (#37668177)

> However, as more and more people fall behind as technology progresses, it might pose a problem, so I think we should institute basic income.

Basic income is the most counterproductive idea possible. We should have spent more on education over 100 years ago.

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Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I by DiggyJohnson on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:00PM (#37668285)

Nobody has ever accused me of supporting UBI, but hardly any idea is more “counterproductive” than “we should have” done something 100 years ago.

Or maybe it’s less counterproductive, more irrelevant, if some topic at hand is “what should we do about increasing automation [in the future]?”

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Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I by sublinear on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:29AM (#37690097)

> if some topic at hand is “what should we do about increasing automation [in the future]?”

If that's at hand, the answer is to let the rest of society catch up before increasing automation.

I agree some form of government intervention is needed because it's the government's fault in the first place. I'm just saying something that should not be controversial at all: throwing money at the problem is crazy.

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Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I by sp527 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:25AM (#37670906)

For real. As just one example, retirement homes routinely increase rates in tandem with increases to social security. Yet people here somehow think basic income will work out just fine. It's laughably naive.

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