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

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Comment author: Clarity 19 September 2015 01:18:58PM 0 points [-]

We don't live in a free market simulation where innovation magically appears just because it is better and possible. Professions lobby for their regulation to protect against replaceent. Opthamologist lobby against general surgeons taking over their tasks, despite them having the longest hospital waiting times. We could be training lay people to carry out specific highly specialised tasks, getting rid of unemployment and easing the education burden on doctors. We don't do these things. Only 82% of emergency, 71percent of urgent department presentations are seen on time in Austrlaian hospitals. I reckon even if we did have AI that could replace them, we wouldn't. Employees will keep their jobs at the expense of consumers.