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Comment author: morganism 17 May 2016 09:47:40PM 2 points [-]

What to do with billions of useless humans ?

Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160428000669

Comment author: gjm 18 May 2016 05:00:26PM -1 points [-]

useless, from an economic perspective

(Emphasis mine.) The article gives no reason to think that AI will make billions of humans actually useless. Only that it will make them unable to earn enough money to live on by selling their labour. These are not the same thing.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 May 2016 05:07:54PM 2 points [-]

I am sure one can come up with a... modest proposal to do something about those billions X-)

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