bluej100 comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 July 2013 06:37:41AM 6 points [-]

As someone working in special-purpose software rather than general-purpose AI, I think you drastically overestimate the difficulty of outcompeting humans in significant portions of low-wage jobs.

Plenty of low-wage jobs have been automated away by machines over the last four centuries. You don't end up permanently irrevocably unemployed until all the work you can do has been automated away.

Comment author: bluej100 24 July 2013 06:45:56AM 3 points [-]

Or until the supply of low-skill workers depress the remaining low-skill wage beneath minimum wage/outsourcing. I think that we are eliminating a larger proportion of low-skill jobs per year than we ever have before, but I agree that the retraining and regulation issues you pointed out are significant.

Comment author: Halfwitz 24 July 2013 02:44:43PM *  2 points [-]

beneath minimum wage.

Well, there's an obvious solution for that.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 July 2013 07:00:10PM 9 points [-]

Yes, inflation.

Comment author: Kawoomba 24 July 2013 07:05:29PM 10 points [-]

I don't think he can hear you across the inferential chasm.

Comment author: Halfwitz 29 December 2013 11:53:29PM *  0 points [-]

Could you point me in the direction of a bridge?

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