Aquilar

yeah slashing the regulation with what? the only reason we have so much of it is because of the socialists and big business. Some times I wish we could just do away with money and credit.

But unemployment is growing and with automation ever growing, it's getting harder and harder to find a stable job that doesn't require self employment and even then it's very hard fought to survive as self employed. Unemployment will get to a point where it becomes untenable to even think about let alone fix it. We already produce enough food to feed the planet two or three times over, ~50% of the planet can't afford to buy that food. With automation in the mix that can easily increase to about 70% to 80%. Now why is that a thing. I could say it down to people being greedy but i don't know.

Just look at China and the companies there absolutely gushing over how much they can obsolete human labour in their factories, in one instance a company had 90% of it's workforce (about 600 strong) replaced with robots with further plans to cut additional 60% of that with even more robots.

I don't think it'll come to that, with automation, people will have a lot more time for raising children, heck, even our most basic machine learning AIs requires a data centre's worth of space and that is only to replicate basic functions of the human brain. Anyway I think life like robots are pure fantasy, they'll just be empty shells and nothing more. It just comes down to the fact, we can't get our machines any smaller before they become dangerously unreliable and it's getting very expensive for the materials that can function at that size.

And now you have an issue, what is going to happen to that 50% of the population that can not work? That raises a lot of questions, many of them not pretty.

Well they weren't going to attend anyway, they said it themselves.

I don't know where to put this but anyway. Automation, the use or introduction of automatic equipment in a manufacturing or other process or facility I never really see a conversation about automation and to a lesser extent AI, how it effects the consumer climate, it's political affects, it's affect on job creation and destruction and lastly what would it do to our cultures. With the ever increasing encroachment of 3D printing and fabrication, the introduction of ever more automated processes and increasing bar of qualification for jobs in such environments, what fundamentally changes and what do we have to change to ease this transition in a society where work doesn't necessarily mean labour? as a pointer, the core issues are: -Population -Education -Monetary -Political And I do not really have a solid answer to these questions and wish for input. For me, I believe automation will kill countries that rely on their cheap labour to be competitive in the global market as well as destroy the need for immigration entirely. As for things like AI, I do not believe AI could ever achieve anything more than what we already do. Without the spark that we have as a species it would never be creative or self aware to the same degree.

Hi I'm Aquilar I'm from Australia and I enjoy History, art, philosophy and video games. I love History, especially about finding out the what the other side's story is too as I believe history is not black and white and that everyone had their reasons. I spend a lot of my free time playing strategy and FPS games especially games based in either sci fi or historical genres and when ever I'm inspired enough. I draw and sketch for hours. and a heads up I have moderate ASD and mild ADHD, so i might respond somewhat rashly or childishly. And so I came here looking to discuss about topics like Automation, generally engineering and sciency type things.