On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:47 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote:
> It could have been written more clearly with half the number of words.
> They seem to think that displaced workers can be retrained for better
> jobs, something that seems increasingly unlikely with current graduates
> dead last in the world in math and science.
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I'm sure Peter Gluck will get all apoplectic over this, but it needs
pointing out that the apologists of the Capitalist order *lie*
(contextually, anyway), when they talk about workers being 're-trained',
after being replaced by automation. It is *well* understood -- and has been
for over 150 years -- that automation is the *main* means whereby
Capitalism replace Labor in the labor process. It is the *main* means by
which labor costs are reduced (there are other, more immediate, cruder
ways). This is, however, Capitalism's Achilles Heel: because Labor is in
fact the *source* of profit ('Surplus-Value', technically. Another lie is
that bourgeois 'Marginal Utility' theory, et al., is the real way profit is
realized).
When you automate people out of jobs, not only is there less money racing
around in the economy (empty pockets), but what you have actually done is
*increase the ratio of machine processes to Human processes in the
production cycle* (the 'organic composition of capital'). This will
actually cheapen the price of goods, because fewer inputs -- and less Human
labor -- are involved in the production cycle (economies-of-scale are
another aspect of this factor); however, since Labor *is* the source of
Surplus-Value -- and there is less of it per unit in increasingly automated
processes -- *the rate of profit per unit declines, as well*. This is an
'iron law' of capitalism which the capitalists will absolutely NEVER
overcome -- their lies and beliefs and pious wishes notwithstanding.
So our present teknologikal society really *is* heading into a dead-end
under Capitalism. Thus WWIII (because of the pressing need of various
cabals of capitalists being 'forced' to invade other groups' turf, in order
to steal resources and markets, to make up for the decline in the rate of
profit overall). Building out of the ruins of war also yields temporary
profits... but this next war will likely have far fewer survivors than the
last 3 (I consider the '7 Years' War' to be the actual first World war).
If you're honest (intellectually or otherwise), you can see that this is a
vicious circle with 'only one' ending -- assuming you have the usual
ideological tunnel-vision.
> In the section on LAWS - lethal autonomous weapons - they miss the point
> that an unscrupulous enemy like ISIS could develop or modify a Western
> development, to kill any human. If they don't have to worry about moral
> values.
> I can imagine a small anomalous, lethal drone that could be made in large
> numbers and once LENR becomes available have an indefinite flight time.
> At least they are thinking about it.
>
> AA
>
Capitalism has no future -- other than death for all Humanity.
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> Frank Znidarsic wrote:
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> https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/
> whitehouse_files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/preparing_for_the_future_of_ai.pdf
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