Rich People, Robots: Are we Effed?
- BottenFieldofDreams
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Re: Rich People, Robots: Are we Effed?
Jeff Bezos will be an interesting despot. He didn't build his company over the graveyard of the American dream, so much as he started burying the bodies underneath his business. He can afford to buy the ideas that have less than a percent of a chance of ever challenging him. But he also is fairly progressive. He owns the Washington Post, which is the only place to get news anymore.
I think he'll probably have us all living immobile, not drastically needy, but no way up and out lower-lower-middle-class-ish existences.
I think he'll probably have us all living immobile, not drastically needy, but no way up and out lower-lower-middle-class-ish existences.
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Just think of the rewards bonuses you could rack up if you got your mortgage through Amazon Prime Bank. Amazon Prime student loans? You kiddin me? Holy [expletive]!Michael wrote:Speaking as an Amazon prime member with their rewards credit card I welcome our new overlords.
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What's the better play? Start adding Amazon to non-secular Christmas songs, or replacing Jesus with Amazon in Christian Christmas songs?
Oh Amazon,
Oh Amazon,
How lovely art thy Prime Day.
25 percent off cell phone accessories
Kindle Fires adorn our Prime Trees
Oh Amazon,
Oh Amazon,
How lovely art thy Prime Day.
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Away, in a manger
no workplace filter to block
little lord Amazon
was there ready to be shopped
Oh Amazon,
Oh Amazon,
How lovely art thy Prime Day.
25 percent off cell phone accessories
Kindle Fires adorn our Prime Trees
Oh Amazon,
Oh Amazon,
How lovely art thy Prime Day.
----
Away, in a manger
no workplace filter to block
little lord Amazon
was there ready to be shopped
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https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/amaz ... etail.html
Amazon is really lapping the field in the race to see who values humans less and can make their inherent inefficiency obsolete. For the record, I will shop at these stores the first chance I get.
Amazon is really lapping the field in the race to see who values humans less and can make their inherent inefficiency obsolete. For the record, I will shop at these stores the first chance I get.
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Few kinks to work out still.
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I will open the door when you order more Kashi Go Lean.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/b ... oogle.com/
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/b ... oogle.com/
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https://www.technologyreview.com/the-do ... ss-models/Robots like the one created by ecoRobotix (shown above) will be able to roll through fields, using computer vision to target and spray individual weeds as they go. EcoRobotix claims its robo-brigade will decrease total herbicide use by a factor of 20. You might even be able to get a smaller Roomba-esque version for your home garden.
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How it’s done now: fearmongering.Gashouse wrote:https://www.technologyreview.com/the-do ... ss-models/Robots like the one created by ecoRobotix (shown above) will be able to roll through fields, using computer vision to target and spray individual weeds as they go. EcoRobotix claims its robo-brigade will decrease total herbicide use by a factor of 20. You might even be able to get a smaller Roomba-esque version for your home garden.
This isn’t an ag thread so I digress. At least the thought of these robots has been around publicly for over a decade. Personally I think they might need to make the robots able to pull weeds. Weeds are evolving faster then chemicals right now.
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This video is a year old. But it has a guy explaining how artificial intelligence and robots are likely to lead to mass layoffs. The guy also says that there is a good chance the economy stagnates in the future due to all this disruption. Then he goes on to explain how excited he is to get in on the investment opportunity that artificial intelligence and robots present. They are not even pretending any more that "a rising tide lifts all boats". He's very aware of the downsides of this stuff, but literally does not give on [expletive] about it because it could make him and his investor friends rich. All that downside is somebody else's problem.