(January 15, 2019 at 8:45 am)Yonadav Wrote:(January 15, 2019 at 8:15 am)AFTT47 Wrote: The systems will likely use multiple layers of redundancy and be programmed to pull over in stop if any one element fails.
This is just a lame attempt to justify the silly argument that people are reduced by having machines do their labor. Instead, it frees them up to do other things.
Quite a bit of straw there. I like machines. But machines do enable the abandonment of basic life skills to a degree that is not easily measurable, so we don't really know what the potential cost might be in the long wrong. It makes sense to be thinking about these things, rather than making vapid strawman statements in opposition.
Well, that's the whole point of machines, innit? To make 'basic life skills' needless. I feel pretty comfortable not having the skills to find the clay to build the kiln to fire the pots to store the meat from the antelope I ran down and killed with a fire-hardened stick. These were all once basic life skills.
Boru
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