IThere are two major concerns underlying this ‘population collapse’ fear.
1 Tabou concerns that caucasions are going extinct as compared to other races with a higher fertility. This is the replacement that frightens most.
2 Politicians are afraid that the Ponzi schemes on which their economic and social support system are based will collapse soon. (2nd generation of investors can only support former generation when there is sustained growth rate). Social security is an example. Hence this myopic vision of ‘open borders’ based on body count which is just a cultural catastrophy disguised as ‘diversity enrichment’.
We have to face reality and let those Ponzi schemes collapse without adding social unrest on top of it, just to blame the new comers for being who they are and not meeting economist expectations.
Global population keeps increasing every second in number. We’re fortunate that virthrate is in decline. Do you know what happens when bacteria keep growing at an exponential rate in a finite environment? They disappear killed by their own waste.
We’re consuming in 6 months what Nature is supposed to renew in a year. And this timeframe keeps shrinking. This is a rate we should alarmed about.
To some extent for some groups, but issues and jobs will just shift.
The increase of the population is causing unemployment, not technology. The labor force is higher than in the early century despite massive robotization of tasks. The increase in the population due to healthcare, peace and safety measures is just higher than what is needed to feed, clean, dress, move, secure and entertain humanity.
Technology is manufactured and raise many issues that need human labor.
AI is full of promises but it will not meet current insane expectations.
The introduction of automation in drug discovery ( robotization, kits etc..) didn’t lessen the workforce in the pharmaceutical industry. It didn’t increase the number of first in class drugs on the market as well. Budget increased dramatically though and scientists sometimes became dumber ( they just take whatever artefacts is given by the machines, don’t know anymore about reagents etc and are overwhelmed by the avalanche of data. They just take numbers and don’t take the time to extract more information from the data they collect. I’ve seen many funny things happening in this area. But expectations were high, and people were forecastin g similar outcomes than AI is generating.
AI and robots are good support. Speed, yield, reproducibility, accuracy, reliability are greater than what humans can provide. But what humans will do with those will define the outcome. Fear is not justified.
@ashcoat@iraseorita Labor will never be free. It’s a service. Robots may change the nature of a work, but will not replace labor. It will displce it like laundey machines and so on. The fear is unjustified, we’ll have a transition towards a different way of life.
I agree. But it makes people busy, guve them a social status, colleagues and an income.
We have to imagine something tht can just alleviates the burden of repetitive tasks that are obviously for robots.
Maybe people could be granted or purchase a robot that they would lease to a company for such job qnd they’ll be responsible for the maintenance of the robot. A kind of avatar.
‘Whales returned to the ocean about 50 million years ago, making one of the most famous evolutionary U-turns in history. Their ancestors were four-legged, dog-toothed land mammals that waded into the water to hunt, eventually adapting entirely to marine life over roughly 10 million years’
Only when milk achieved that level of fatness was the survival in water fully granted.
@adharshkumar_ai@cb_doge He knew it was possible because of physics.
But the fly convinced she can get through the glass of my window should give up and try another way.