Craig,
You maybe right but I doubt it. I conclude that AI, even before it is
truly AI, is a game changer and will lead to the end of our existing
economic world. I don't know how long it will take. Probably other
solutions like a shorter work week will be tried first and we don't even
know an unconditional income will work here until it is tried. I have
reconsidered my comment about the GOP. (My comment was whether the idea
would make sense to them) Neither party will welcome it. Their power
base will evaporate with the reduction in government employees.
As I also think LENR is real, I conclude that it will not be that
expensive to provide enough for basic food and shelter. What people
will actually do is interesting to speculate about. Steven Johnson, I
can tell you that when you reach 82 your senses, like sight, deteriorate
and you don't have the energy to do the things you would do when you
were younger.
Adrian Ashfield
Craig Haynie Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:34:53 -0800 wrote:
"You have a prediction that there will be a high rate of unemployment,
but these sorts of predictions started in the late 1800s with the
expansion of industry. Now you're proposing a solution for this
prediction, and believe that any opposition to this solution "does not
make sense." But you wouldn't try to solve any other problem in this
way. You wouldn't take a prediction based on loose science, and try to
solve a problem which does not yet exist. Moreover, your solution
requires taking money from people without their consent. So there is no
way that someone opposed to your prediction, and your solution, could
opt-out. I sympathize with your desire to try to solve an unrealized
problem, but ask that you do not include those who disagree with your
assessment of the problem, and your proposed solution."
