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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by ssssvd on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:07AM (#42812692)
How many 100s of billions had been invested into Atari Graphics? What administrations supported Atari Graphics as a nation-wide top-level project?

The key difference in AI is the combined investment of industry champions AND nations states on mind-boggling scale. That can cut the adoption from 40 years to 10. Today's graduates would hardly be able to pay their edu debts by then.

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by bsenftner on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:01AM (#42813090)
You've missed my point: it is not a financing issue that will prevent mass automation, it is not a technology issue that will prevent mass automation, it is a social politics issue that will derail the entire goal. It's pretty hard to automate while a war is taking place, and if this tech is used to create mass unemployment that will trigger war.
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