Viliam_Bur 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: Viliam_Bur 26 July 2013 10:47:29AM *  3 points [-]

Unemployment is bad if there are things that should be done, but are not done. Does this description fit our society? I think it does, because I can imagine a few things that should be done... for example cleaning the streets.

When we'll have enough cheap IQ-100 machines able to do all the work of IQ-100 people, I will not consider unemployment of people under IQ 100 a bad thing. It will be still bad if a IQ 200 person remains unemployed, while the cure for cancer is still not found and people are dying. Again, when all IQ-200 work is done, I will be okay with that person being unemployed, too.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 July 2013 12:21:07PM 3 points [-]

When we'll have enough cheap IQ-100 machines able to do all the work of IQ-100 people, I will not consider unemployment of people under IQ 100 a bad thing.

Provided that doesn't happen before some measure to allow such people to still make a living is implemented.

Comment author: Randy_M 26 July 2013 04:19:44PM 3 points [-]

You mean "to still live" since presumably the making of it will be the machines job.