pjeby 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: pjeby 01 August 2013 06:55:46PM 4 points [-]

Thanks! This is a good illustration of my point, i.e., that businesses generally operate at local optima that can be disrupted by minimum wage increases, causing them to seek automation that they didn't use before the local optimum was disturbed.