There is an inherent property of reality. Past must be accepted. It's immutable. Doesn't matter how it went. How good or bad it was. There is only one thing you can do with it since it's carved in stone, or a mountain. Embrace it. Consent to it. It's neither defining nor definitive. As long as you have the present, there is no past. Each new second is as new as it can be. No grudge no mourning.
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I wanted to write an article about automation and basic income (very short version)
Robots are coming. Artificial Intelligence(AI) will take our jobs. Unemployment is behind the corner. Billions of jobs are threatened. We are getting close to the age of abundance. And because of abundance there will be unemployment. With unemployment there will be no meaning. Most people find meaning through their jobs. Robots will do better, faster etc. So we'll have no choice but to have a universal basic income(UBI).
This summarizes the trend of most articles I've encountered. First it's going to be drivers, cashiers, factory workers, farm workers, and then even doctors, lawyers, language interpreters, newsmakers, designers and other blue collar wage earners. The owners of these services, the rich, are benefitting - so the gap between the rich and the poor is widening at the same pace, !already happening. A robot tax? Does not seem like a smart idea. Redistribution of income? sounds like a form of UBI.
What if these changes are actually just enhancers. This is what it is all about. Humans have used tools to get jobs better and easier since they gained consciousness. Most of the jobs threatened are only steps in a complex web of real world interactions. If the driver gets supplanted by AI then he will be still be needed for the other tasks he is to perform. Like loading, or directing robots to load things into the car, truck, train, ship, plane etc. If the cashier is going to be replaced by a big brother to count purchases, he will still have the same amount of skill job to replace those purchases on the shelves, either by his hand or directing a robot. There will be at least a couple of dozen of years until human presence is not going to be needed when transition to automatization ends. Doctors, lawyers, designers have even a longer lifespan. AI will make their jobs easier, but not obsolete. Easier might mean fewer though, true that. Add to this universal home 3d printers, even home food printers, home clothes printers, microbots able to replicate and build anything anywhere, on body health trackers providing constant care etc. The "few" with enough to afford such services would really get an easier life. How many would until first revolution? are these revolutions going to be vivid or constantly postponed by some unintended compromise measures on the go, like UBI. How long until currency as it is is going to disappear? Has the smartphone or even mobile phone revolution happened with a clear view of the few that were entitled? Or the internet? Have you seen the days when those who had the means had a car, a mobile phone or internet access? These things entered ubiquitous presence gradually. Those who didn't have strived, or waited until it got affordable enough. Waiting was too short. It's a process that is going to engulf current jobs, and make them obsolete only when it is going to be too late even to imagine otherwise, because it's not even going to be in the minds of those people, they won't even think about it. Current freaking all over media about job loss is an effect of the current state of mass media, it's because media generation became such affordable. Doctors, lawyers, newsmakers, designers will be needed as before, only their job is going to get easier, or more complex, because they would be able to focus on higher aspects of these same jobs, and get more accountable.
What will happen, is the gradual integration of these services. We'll take them for granted. It's going to take years enough! to feel it right. We are already feeling the disruption, but it's our mind that struggles with change. We, personally, are getting empowered, and it's our task to embrace it. Take elders who don't know how to use google search or microsoft word. Not long ago a person would have been born next to a carriage towed by oxen and get to die not far from another. History has shaped humans to culturally form paradigms that adapt to certain environment for life. We are not longer there. What is going to happen - we'll have more time, more of us will search meaning in helping others, in making their environment better suited, like their neighborhood, cities, colleagues, relatives or deficient, giving them the knowledge already available from other world examples always pouring from internet about how to make it right. It's the morals of each moment that will shape our purpose. Those freed by UBI, or other economy redistribution would invest themselves into meaning, that same meaning dictated by their first seven years of life (!another topic). And new generations would have other morals, but they would bleed, until their last days to fight for it (!still another topic). Economy redistribution is already happening. Just count the jobs that were not in place just a few years ago. If you dig into them - they were "displaced" or rather "made available" by the new means and access we are granted on a continuous basis. They all rely on real world implementation, with interaction with other humans, their specifics, biases and flaws.
Just ask any AI expert about their forecast when AI singularity will occur. So this is the time we are going to be living in the same today+ world, meaning no AI or robots will definitely change our reality, only enhance it.
All we need to do is embrace these enhancements, be the first to apply ;).
This summarizes the trend of most articles I've encountered. First it's going to be drivers, cashiers, factory workers, farm workers, and then even doctors, lawyers, language interpreters, newsmakers, designers and other blue collar wage earners. The owners of these services, the rich, are benefitting - so the gap between the rich and the poor is widening at the same pace, !already happening. A robot tax? Does not seem like a smart idea. Redistribution of income? sounds like a form of UBI.
What if these changes are actually just enhancers. This is what it is all about. Humans have used tools to get jobs better and easier since they gained consciousness. Most of the jobs threatened are only steps in a complex web of real world interactions. If the driver gets supplanted by AI then he will be still be needed for the other tasks he is to perform. Like loading, or directing robots to load things into the car, truck, train, ship, plane etc. If the cashier is going to be replaced by a big brother to count purchases, he will still have the same amount of skill job to replace those purchases on the shelves, either by his hand or directing a robot. There will be at least a couple of dozen of years until human presence is not going to be needed when transition to automatization ends. Doctors, lawyers, designers have even a longer lifespan. AI will make their jobs easier, but not obsolete. Easier might mean fewer though, true that. Add to this universal home 3d printers, even home food printers, home clothes printers, microbots able to replicate and build anything anywhere, on body health trackers providing constant care etc. The "few" with enough to afford such services would really get an easier life. How many would until first revolution? are these revolutions going to be vivid or constantly postponed by some unintended compromise measures on the go, like UBI. How long until currency as it is is going to disappear? Has the smartphone or even mobile phone revolution happened with a clear view of the few that were entitled? Or the internet? Have you seen the days when those who had the means had a car, a mobile phone or internet access? These things entered ubiquitous presence gradually. Those who didn't have strived, or waited until it got affordable enough. Waiting was too short. It's a process that is going to engulf current jobs, and make them obsolete only when it is going to be too late even to imagine otherwise, because it's not even going to be in the minds of those people, they won't even think about it. Current freaking all over media about job loss is an effect of the current state of mass media, it's because media generation became such affordable. Doctors, lawyers, newsmakers, designers will be needed as before, only their job is going to get easier, or more complex, because they would be able to focus on higher aspects of these same jobs, and get more accountable.
What will happen, is the gradual integration of these services. We'll take them for granted. It's going to take years enough! to feel it right. We are already feeling the disruption, but it's our mind that struggles with change. We, personally, are getting empowered, and it's our task to embrace it. Take elders who don't know how to use google search or microsoft word. Not long ago a person would have been born next to a carriage towed by oxen and get to die not far from another. History has shaped humans to culturally form paradigms that adapt to certain environment for life. We are not longer there. What is going to happen - we'll have more time, more of us will search meaning in helping others, in making their environment better suited, like their neighborhood, cities, colleagues, relatives or deficient, giving them the knowledge already available from other world examples always pouring from internet about how to make it right. It's the morals of each moment that will shape our purpose. Those freed by UBI, or other economy redistribution would invest themselves into meaning, that same meaning dictated by their first seven years of life (!another topic). And new generations would have other morals, but they would bleed, until their last days to fight for it (!still another topic). Economy redistribution is already happening. Just count the jobs that were not in place just a few years ago. If you dig into them - they were "displaced" or rather "made available" by the new means and access we are granted on a continuous basis. They all rely on real world implementation, with interaction with other humans, their specifics, biases and flaws.
Just ask any AI expert about their forecast when AI singularity will occur. So this is the time we are going to be living in the same today+ world, meaning no AI or robots will definitely change our reality, only enhance it.
All we need to do is embrace these enhancements, be the first to apply ;).
duminică, 30 iunie 2013
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it's not about whether god exists or not, it's about whether such a question exists or not - and it does exist in a world where man has free will. But it doesn't in a universe where thinking and actions are layered down under the force of time the same way water finds it's way under the force of gravity.
luni, 24 iunie 2013
Dacă să parafrazăm esenţa relaţiilor umane, prin reducere la următoarea fundamentare, adevărată în principiu, precum că suntem, în esenţă, organe sexuale, de jos până sus şi din conştient până-n inconştient, şi că tot ce facem şi tot ce ne aduce plăcere este să "f..tem". Nu doar fizic, pt că doar fizic nu e parafrazare.
- И что же такого неправильного в желании выжить?
- Выживать умеет каждая собака. Ты что, собака? Только когда ты начнешь заботиться о высшем, а не просто о поддержании жизни в своем теле - только тогда ты станешь человеком. И чем возвышеннее цель, ради которой ты готов и жить, и умереть, тем ты более велик.
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