Shodidoren

Shodidoren t1_jdr982a wrote

Reply to Are We Really This Lucky? The Improbability of Experiencing the Singularity by often_says_nice

There's about 8 billion people in the world today. The sum of all people who have ever lived is estimated to be about 117 billion. You had about a 6.8% chance of being born today. Improbable but very plausible.

As for the Fermi paradox, my guess is the universe is teeming with life. People greatly underestimate how huge the universe is

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Shodidoren t1_jd00fn2 wrote

Reply to AI displacing jobs is a red herring, how we self-organize is the more fundamental trend by mjrossman

Good post

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> at the end of the day, the only vibe that matters is the potential
impact of any given tinkering in any given garage, literally or
metaphorically

This is the most important part, methinks. Given how fast the tech is exploding, it's vital that we bring down the costs of essentials first. Food, drink & basic consumables. This will soften the blow of any and every commotion that happens as a result of high unemployment. We need the robots asap. The displacement of white collar workers will leak into blue collar jobs. People will chase manual jobs if their survival gets on the line. The robots may be too primitive to steal your trade job, but the junior dev that just lost his is not.

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