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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Watch "Colony" on USA.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2017 - 09:50pm PT
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Marx wrote very eloquently about it ... shhhh, don't let anyone know...
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Fat is the enemy! No, wait a minute, fat's cool - sugar is the enemy!
We've known the truth all along - we just needed to believe it. Simple enough. We're really good at figuring out the truth, even when we don't believe that truth. Now that we're experts at divining the retrospective truth, it should be easy for us to teach the computers how to do it.
Computers! We may or may not be saying something (or have said something in the past) that we're going to learn is true in the future. We might have written it down as fiction. Just do the math, and tell us which ones we're going to learn are true in the future, and we'll believe you. I promise.
But ouch! Don't step on my toes! And sugar tastes good.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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rbord: Retrospect is easy, and we learn our lessons in foresight from fiction.
Sarcasm doesn't come through this medium. Is that what you were going for?
Those who've stood for the importance of the humanities argue that moral lessons can be communicated and learned through exposure to the liberal arts. It's unclear to me that they do.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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some folks are more worried about MX Robots.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan, Former USSR
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Apr 16, 2017 - 09:22pm PT
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we the silicon valley slaves created the biggest disasters in human kind ever .
No we, our children and grandchildren have to pay the karma .
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 17, 2017 - 07:18am PT
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Technology and job displacement have been with us since the dawn of civilization and will continue unabated until. Inevitably, the human race is displaced.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 17, 2017 - 07:28am PT
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Inevitably, the human race is displaced.
No such thing will ever happen nor can it ever happen.
Every living entity has a fail safe system in place within.
The ridiculous stoopid modern scientists can't seem to find it with their stoopid limited defective instruments that are built buy their own defectives selves.
Thus defect will only see defect ultimately and never the complete whole .....
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 17, 2017 - 07:41am PT
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Dinosaurs had a 160 million year reign that ended 60 million years ago....very unlikely that humans will replicate that.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Apr 18, 2017 - 08:07am PT
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In the discussion about disrupting the norms, I can't help but notice that those cheering the loudest for human replacement technologies are software developers.
Perhaps they see themselves as exempt from their own actions.
But if any job can be automated by algorithms and AI, surely the rote transcribing of code would be a natural.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Apr 18, 2017 - 08:26am PT
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Homo sapiens is done for,
Probably should be put on the endangered species list.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Apr 18, 2017 - 12:15pm PT
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Did this just slip through unnoticed or have I been slacking in my supertopo reading?
Fast forward to 1:02
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Apr 18, 2017 - 02:32pm PT
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Good topic, Ed. It will wake up some and confirm reality for others. I have a good friend, a head hunter actually, that told me 10 years ago people will be replaced/displaced by technology. The middle class will disappear. Seems like this thread confirms this somewhat.
As technology continues to progress people will need to learn to "reinvent" themselves if they want to earn an income. The evolution of the job market will be interesting to observe. And Ghost, the grandchild and the shoes.....hopefully they will figure out how to earn enough to buy them.
What will the future hold? I have no idea. I do know that it will be nothing like the past. Words like insecure, temporary, precarious, unsure as well as adventurous and new opportunity come to mind.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Apr 18, 2017 - 05:54pm PT
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the kids are all right and they're going to adapt and carry on no matter what. That's what humans do.
But the humans must want to adapt. One can't sit around and lament the loss of a bygone industry. Well they can, but it doesn't solve anything.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 18, 2017 - 05:58pm PT
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Modern people with their technology is the way to future are insane.
They create all this technology and then simultaneously need to get away from it to get their sanity back.
Stoopid modern materialists .....
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Apr 18, 2017 - 09:23pm PT
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Yeah.. Technology will be a tool used against the masses to help the privaledged.. like the joke about the world's smartest man , Henry Kissenger , jumping out of the crashing airliner with a back-pack on thinking it was a parachute...
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Apr 18, 2017 - 09:57pm PT
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When humanity is ruled by machines and we become their servants, I hold hope that somewhere in the world is a seventeen year old savant with a network connection and a keyboard thinking to himself, "I can hack that.".
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