by evilgenius » Tue 06 Mar 2018, 14:52:13
If America is about to be exposed, it'll probably be as AI so thoroughly infiltrates what people have come to know as the workplace over a rapid period of time. Advances are coming very soon not just behind the wheel, which is where many people work today, but in the professions. Soon, people may contemplate the use of the law in a manner they never could before, as AI makes it more plain to us - revealing more quickly what our options are. We wouldn't need so many lawyers, though. AI could ravage the executive suite as much as replace the repetitive tasks we understand computers are good at doing. As capitalists, we may not be ready for the coming redefinition. For all of the refutations of Marx that capitalism has proffered, none of them has truly dissuaded us from seeing some inherent value to labor, other than its impact upon how many widgets can be manufactured. Capitalists seem to believe in a labor theory of value, even though they can easily discredit it. We need it to help us distinguish between classes, for one thing. There are types of labor for which the establishment has spent a lot of money acquiring the knowledge of how to do which those who have paid that price will not have found themselves longing for such a removal of their protective barrier to entry than what AI is about to wreak upon them. All of this is going to happen over a fairly short time.