Naoya, I agree with you.
If we look at prior radical changes, e.g. the relatively recent transition from rural agricultural society to largely urbanized society (completed in the First World, still underway in the developing world...), we can see that -- Yes, in historical terms, this transition happened pretty quickly and with an inexorable feel to it -- On a personal level, of course, there was lots of drama and trauma involved for many human beings and human cultures, in the course of the transition -- Ben On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:45 AM, ARAKAWA Naoya <[email protected]> wrote: > (With a bit less merry tone,) > We would need to go through radical changes in resource > distribution and the concept of fairness in our society to > make it wonderful. > But that would be a revolution AGI may bring about… > > - NA > > 2014/03/18 11:15、Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> のメール： > >> >> > Why won’t we let them do any work so that human beings >> > never ever have to work again? Isn’t that wonderful? :-) >> > >> > - NA >> >> Only wonderful if we live in Switzerland where the government >> guarantees 2,500 francs per person. In other countries where >> automation is replacing jobs, and there is no such income guarantee >> people will just exhaust their unemployment insurance then go >> hungry. Not so wonderful. >> >> ~PM > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
