DanielLC comments on Wealth from Self-Replicating Robots - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Algernoq 15 July 2014 04:42AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 16 July 2014 05:54:37AM 0 points [-]

The reason humans are used to set up factories is precisely because it's cheaper than using robots. As more robots are built, humans will get more expensive in comparison, and robots will replace them.

Comment author: Algernoq 16 July 2014 07:03:03AM 0 points [-]

I generally agree. I'm proposing a particular way some robots could be cheaper than humans. You're saying more robots --> less expensive robots; I'd say more open-source software --> less expensive robots will have the greater impact.