--- Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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This may tag me as some kind of Luddite, but I find
it appalling that people can't wait to excise as
much human contact from their lives as possible. I
know people that would rather eat nails than
actually have to go to the bank for three whole
The Fool quoted:
All of that is good, so these automated systems
will proliferate rapidly. The problem is that
these systems will also eliminate jobs in massive
numbers.
Yawn. More than 200 years after the Industrial
Revolution, and the neoluddites are still using
the same excuses
The Fool quoted:
All of that is good, so these automated
systems will proliferate rapidly.
The problem is that these systems will also eliminate
jobs in massive numbers.
Yawn. More than 200 years after the Industrial Revolution,
and neoluddites still use the same excuse as the
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From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Robotic Singularity
The Fool quoted:
All of that is good, so these automated
systems will proliferate rapidly.
The problem
The Fool quoted:
All of that is good, so these automated systems
will proliferate rapidly. The problem is that
these systems will also eliminate jobs in massive
numbers.
Yawn. More than 200 years after the Industrial
Revolution, and the neoluddites are still using
the same excuses
At 08:22 AM 7/26/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Robotic Nation
by Marshall Brain
[snip]
The arrival of humanoid robots should be a cause for celebration. With
the robots doing most of the work, it should be possible for everyone to
go on perpetual
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:51:55AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
So what jobs will still be performed by humans in a robotic nation?
I think a more useful question is, what will still be scarce in a robot
economy?
Well, I think the article probably overestimates the progression
of computer
While there is an element of hysteria in this article, I too find the American
fascination with automating *everything* disturbing. However, I find it disturbing
for an additional reason.
First off, I agree that it seems that no one has really thought this automation thing
through. I still
The Fool wrote:
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
Robotic Nation
by Marshall Brain
great snippage
The Vision Thing
One of the key capabilities limiting robotic expansion at the moment is
image processing -- the ability of robots to look at a scene like a human
does and
Jim Sharkey wrote:
This may tag me as some kind of Luddite, but I find it appalling that
people can't wait to excise as much human contact from their lives as
possible. I know people that would rather eat nails than actually
have to go to the bank for three whole minutes. No one's time is
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
How much progress has been made on the visual processing problem in
the last 20 years? What is the current rate of progress? How many
people are working on this?
I can't answer most of this, but I do know that computer vision
On 27 Jul 2003 at 15:59, Julia Thompson wrote:
Also, how much longer will Moore's Law hold? It gets to where part of
what's making things faster is that the size of components on a chip
are shrinking; there's some finite limit to that beyond which
shrinking is impossible. Then we have to
At 11:24 AM 7/27/03 -0400, Jim Sharkey wrote:
While there is an element of hysteria in this article, I too find the
American fascination with automating *everything* disturbing. However, I
find it disturbing for an additional reason.
First off, I agree that it seems that no one has really
Erik wrote-
I think the article asks a good question, which is how the economy
can be modified to deal with these sorts of things.
I think one of the deficits of this article is the potential population
decline in the future. If you look at the trend of lack of
replacement rate in many
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