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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:30 AM Original message |
Who Needs Humans? (About robots taking people's jobs) |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. They do have cars that can park themselves, but a Roomba is worthless other than as a cat toy. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:41 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Cars will be a lot smaller and cheaper once they eliminate the passenger compartment nt |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Maybe, but most of the SUV's I see have one occupant - the driver yacking on the cell phone. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. If robots take over jobs, the occupant number will drop to zero. nt |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Don't count on it. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Why not? who's gonna hire the bozo yakking on the cell phone? |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Most of them don't seem to be employed anyway - just out driving and yacking. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. That's nice. So where's the money coming from? |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Who the fuck knows. I see a lot of morons who can't tie their own shoes getting out of Beemers. |
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TexDevilDog (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. Assist robots suck |
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fredamae (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. Robots currently pay No Taxes |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:07 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. That's a GREAT idea - maybe it would help get rid of those stupid self-checkout things. |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I;m shy. I love the self-checkout. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. It's pretty much already a world for our technology |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
14. Kurt Vonnegut predicted this almost 60 years ago |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. I work in a major retail store. Crosstraining is a lot of jobs as well. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
17. At the factory I worked at just about every job taken by a robot was replaced by a ... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. Remember this if you are tempted to "Self-Check-out". |
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RickFromMN (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
19. If corporations are persons, why can't robots be persons? |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The question is when, not if |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. This country could use some humans. |
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