It begins.
Artificial intelligence will definitely take your job. Yes even yours, Mister Programmer.
It begins.
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It begins.
Artificial intelligence will definitely take your job. Yes even yours, Mister Programmer.
John Hardy Developer 
I love throwing that fact in the faces of libertarians. It makes me a bad person, I know 😀
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I have heard that people are already using AI to optimize formal methods proofs. You write a proof that a correct program exists, the AI assists you in proving it. Once you prove that such a correct program exists, you ask the computer to show you an “example” of such a correct program that satisfies the constraints of the proof, and in the process of constructing the “example,” it will actually generate all the of code for the entire program automatically.
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That’s okay: women make better programmers anyway.
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Lisa Chabot well yeah, sorry for being sexist. Your job is going to be eliminated as well 😇
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Equal opportunity unemployment.
On the other hand, long as we tax the means of production and have a good UBI, it will just leave more time for play and community work.
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Andreas Geisler that’s the story they will sell us but UBIs can be cut back to starvation levels once the means of production no longer relies on the labour power of the masses. UBI is only a real option for progressives while we can still hold a political gun to capitalists’ heads. This I think will go away along with the jobs.
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est Not if we realize that, and make it an actual gun.
The only trick: We gotta do it before they perfect their robot armies.
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Andreas Geisler I think Big Data and AI employed in the service of the security agencies will be the One Weird Trick that will put things over the line and in the favour of the ruling class forever. There’s always hope that this tech will in the hands of the people have a massive decentralising and democratising effect. I think however that in the long run history will be written by the Big Boppers in the Cloud.
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est We have a narrow window of opportunity, I think. But it is a question of time.
We have to get smart about pursuing these goals.
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I’m not that worried: it’s been ages since I did GUI work. (Okay: 5 years, 3 jobs ago.)
We just need to enact UBI before the first robot gets elected to a legislative body.
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Lisa Chabot Andreas Geisler the problem with UBI, and the reason why so many “anarcho” capitalist libertarians are so enthusiastic about it, is that it gives them an excuse to cut government programs. “Just use your UBI wisely, buy your own healthcare, food, and pay rent.” They’ll say, while (as John Hardy Turnbull delenda est said) then cutting UBI at every available opportunity, using the same excuses they use now: “how are we going to pay for it”? and “you can’t create jobs if you are taxing job creators.”
UBI doesn’t solve the real problem of wealth inequality, it doesn’t actually put people back in control of their own lives, it doesn’t give people the right to own the means of production (which will all be robots pretty soon), it doesn’t take power away from the people who own the robots, and it doesn’t give people a democratic voice in how their government should work.
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Ramin Honary I both agree and disagree.
Wealth inequality can’t be permanently solved with any reliability.
But continuous direct wealth redistribution is a simple solution that doesn’t require a lot of controls. It’s a patch for a “feature” of the market.
A UBI replaces a personal tax deduction. It doesn’t replace any other services, but can still remove the need for “anti-cheating” controls in such other services, which are immensely costly, not just in lives destroyed, but also in bureaucratic dollars.
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