/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3275627
Jokes on you, I'm already playing it.

And also doing ground work on a nuclear fission reactor for the station that will probably go nowhere. http://tgstation13.servehttp.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5227

I can map it out, and I can research it, but I don't know how to code it.

>>3274805
How can we NOT be moving towards a future where "unemployment" as we know it is incredibly common?

What I want to see happening, and something that I think will inevitably happen, would be robots doing all the labor and work that people do not WANT to do. Everyone will be able to do something enjoyable with their life, whether that be learning guitar, or sitting at home playing WoW all day, or building cars, and so on.

Obviously our current economic system cannot support this. It just does not work. How do you buy food if you are unemployed? We certainly cannot simply GIVE food away. Or anything else - luxury items, cars, TV's. We can't give that stuff away, how would we keep consumption in check? What happens to the free market, the invisible hand? These are questions that I think we're going to have to figure out and answer pretty soon, because to me, we're headed for this whether we want it or not.

>>3274713
Okay, let us look at what humans can do that nothing else in the animal kingdom as far as we know, is able to do: Abstract reasoning and thought.

If we assume that robots and machines are more efficient than humans but will forever be incapable of abstract reasoning and thought, then we can assume that every other job *except* those which require abstract reasoning and thought, will be performed by robots.

Even with this assumption, we are still heading towards a complete shakeup of our economic system as automated systems replace basically everything that humans are doing right now. Data entry, construction, bean counting, burger flipping, truck driving... these do not require abstract reasoning and thought. The only way you can assume that automation will not introduce massive unemployment is if you toss away the idea that robots are more efficient and cheaper than humans.

There are still ways that we could have superior robots, and still not utilize them in all manner of fields. But it would go against capitalism to do that, and the first nation or country to say "fuck it" and go all out on automation is going to have a decided edge against everyone else who has artificially legislated their robotic edge away.