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marstenyesterday at 8:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

In the grand scheme it's good to invent things that replace human labor. It frees up people to do more interesting things. The goal should be to put everyone out of a job.


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ameliusyesterday at 9:14 PM

> The goal should be to put everyone out of a job.

Yeah, but why does it need to take the fun jobs first, like painting, writing poems, coding, making music, ...

I want the AI to cook, do the dishes, take out the trash, etc.

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palmoteatoday at 6:18 AM

> In the grand scheme it's good to invent things that replace human labor. It frees up people to do more interesting things. The goal should be to put everyone out of a job.

To a point. Then it just frees up people to do nothing.

> The goal should be to put everyone out of a job.

That is in fact the goal. The less labor capital needs, the more money (and power) the capitalists get to keep for themselves.

pixl97yesterday at 8:53 PM

>It frees up people to do more interesting things

Like beg on the corners and starve in the street? Trying to figure out how the basics of capitalism where labor is exchanged for money is not going to work well when the only jobs left are side gigs. Something will have to change and a lot of People will fight said change.

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