mwengler comments on Unemployment explanations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mwengler 24 November 2014 03:12:35PM 0 points [-]

The extreme example would occur if we had robots with a IQ-160-human-level intelligence that could be rented for 1/100th of the current minimum wage. Who would be going to hire humans in this scenario?

My first thought was "sex workers," thinking many customers might prefer a dull human to a smart robot. But as saturday night live pointed out on a recent show, and I paraphrase, 58% of people interviewed said they would have sex with a sex robot, and 42% were lying.