Virtue of being self-absorbed?

AppLeo said:

And that's bad because...???

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david starling said:

What's going to happen when CEOs are replaced by AIs that can do a much better job for the corporation, and fast-food employees are replaced by smiley face robots that are more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective? Does the economic system work for us, or are we merely more and less privileged slaves of the economic system?

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AppLeo said:

An AI is only as good as its programmer. The technology we create is only created because someone thought of it and produced it in the tangible world.

A calculator can work more efficiently, but the creator had to program the calculator with all kinds of formulas first.

I remember learning in calculus that you can find a square root with Newton's method and that people who programmed calculators had to use his method in order to program the calculator to do the square root.

Of course the economic system works for us. Better than socialism or communism that's for sure. Communism encourages slavery – forcing people to work for people.

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JUPITERASC said:

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AppLeo said:

An AI is only as good as its programmer. The technology we create is only created because someone thought of it and produced it in the tangible world.

A calculator can work more efficiently, but the creator had to program the calculator with all kinds of formulas first.

I remember learning in calculus that you can find a square root with Newton's method and that people who programmed calculators had to use his method in order to program the calculator to do the square root.

Of course the economic system works for us. Better than socialism or communism that's for sure. Communism encourages slavery – forcing people to work for people.

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david starling said:

Programmers are replaceable, and make FAR less money than CEOs. It's not a Meritocracy.

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