elharo comments on Norbert Wiener on automation and unemployment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: elharo 27 July 2013 09:17:44PM 4 points [-]

A much better title would be "Norbert Wiener on Automation and Unemployment." It's not clear that Wiener here was considering AI at all.

Comment author: JonahSinick 27 July 2013 11:35:19PM 3 points [-]

I changed this per your suggestion.

Comment author: taygetea 27 July 2013 09:49:11PM 0 points [-]

the second, cybernetic, industrial revolution “is [bound] to devalue the human brain, at least in its simpler and more routine decisions

It certainly seems like he considered it, at least on a basic level, enough to be extrapolated.