gwern comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong
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Both Q and A seem to be treating unemployment as intrinsically bad, which is a case of lost purposes, a confusion between terminal and instrumental goals.
It's not a confusion by the technological unemployment people, at least: most of them seem to come to conclusions like 'this is irreversible and reversing it is undesirable anyway, so what we need to do is de-link employment with being able to survive using something like Basic Income'.