On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33 PM Vinay Rao <v...@bangid.com> wrote: > Few of many 'Future of Work' articles that is centred around creating a > universal basic income. Considering that 70% [Unsure of source, but I have > read this somewhere] of 'workforce' anywhere are 'disengaged' (bored, for > one. Tired, for another) or 'actively disengaged' (walk in to a government > office :)), maybe it is time bots and smart contracts put them out of their > disengagement misery. > > Is it erroneous to think that people cannot be 're-purposed' to life and > perform in the modus of their time, to participate in their contemporary > world, having been released from antiquated tasks, and monotony and the > meaningless? Once we're removed from mundanities, will the future of work > be derived from our barely tapped wells of creativity?
You are assuming that the machines will take longer to learn to perform these tasks so that humans can tap into such creative avenues and create something of value. I don't think we can assume that given the article. > At the same time we > would still need super-specialist developers to create and maintain the > (march to) technological singularity, and several more to regulate and > sustain life in the eco/bio/sphere. > Before the machines go rogue (singularity), I think what concerns me more is humans who control the machines going/allowed to go rogue and acting purely in their self interest. I think this is more likely than the machines going rogue. > The concept of a Universal Comfortable Life (as an inference from Universal > Basic Income) is interesting. I'm reminded after long, of this - now old - > initially dystopian, and then hopeful story from Marshall Brain. > http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm Good read. I don't remember it being covered, but you don't get to save your credits I'm guessing and everything that can be bought costs less than 1000 credits per week or in total. You also don't get to give credits to anybody else, on interest or otherwise. Whether this is a model for Universal Comfortable Life I'm not so sure. What do you tell the guy who wants to ride on the space elevator all day alone? Kiran -- Regards, Kiran
