| ▲ | ben_w 2 hours ago | |
> I mean, who else going to grow the food and sweep the streets? I'm not sure what the state of the art is with either of these, but I'm now imagining scaled-up Roombas stealthily cleaning the streets at night. Or this, but self-driving: https://www.alamy.com/compact-kubota-bx2350-street-cleaning-... More seriously, I think there is a before-and-after point with AI, before some point the automation is just a "normal technology" and we need humans for a lot of jobs, pensioners can only get meaningful pensions when a new generation is present to pay for it all, otherwise pension ages need to keep rising; after that point, automation is so good we can do UBI (AKA "set the pension age to birth")… well, provided the state owns the automation, otherwise good luck demanding free access. | ||