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KatjaGrace comments on Superintelligence 17: Multipolar scenarios - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: KatjaGrace 06 January 2015 06:44AM

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Comment author: KatjaGrace 06 January 2015 06:50:03AM 5 points [-]

Was the analogy to horses good?

Comment author: Alex123 07 January 2015 04:07:59AM *  3 points [-]

It's really good. People are superintelligence to horses, and they (horses) lost 95% of jobs. With SI to people, people will loose no less % of jobs. We have to take it as something provably coming. It will be painful but necessary change. So many people spend their lives on so simple jobs (like cleaning, selling etc).

Comment author: Sebastian_Hagen 08 January 2015 01:28:36AM 1 point [-]

I like it. It does a good job of providing a counter-argument to the common position among economists that the past trend of technological progress leading to steadily higher productivity and demand for humans will continue indefinitely. We don't have a lot of similar trends in our history to look at, but the horse example certainly suggests that these kinds of relationships can and do break down.