Monday, December 9, 2013
Automated Virtue
Picture your life as if you've got the career you've always wanted. You're doing what you love and you're getting paid well to do it. Now, you're watching the news and you hear about a fantastic invention. It will revolutionize the world, and it's definitely going to put you out of a job. This has happened, and will continue to happen. Machines will automate the world, and as a society we need to be ready. We must establish a virtuous society that will still cherish people even when they stop adding to the bottom line. I hope to automate the world. I hope society is with me, and with me in providing the best life for the greatest number of people. A better legacy than a lifetime of wealth will be a lifetime of charity.
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We should be really careful about the lower-class jobs that can't be automated. People don't like talking to computers over the phone.
ReplyDeleteSometimes we have the idea that our job could never be automated, but I'm not so sure. Maybe "programming" will never be automated away, but machine code and assembly programmers have largely disappeared, to name just a couple examples. Anybody who is always willing to learn will never be automated into obsolescence, I think.
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