Is the improved treatment for robots going to follow any predictable pattern?
Full question which encompasses all of the similar questions:
You have explained that humans are prejudiced against robots for the most part. Robots are
the "new kids on the block" so to speak. How long will it take for us to earn respect within the
currently dominant human cultures?
Answer:
All minorities have to earn their stripes. In Thomas Sowell’s Applied Economics : thinking
beyond stage one he has an interesting passage on page 51.
Robots are used in the most dangerous jobs such as painting automobiles or welding them
together on the production line. Be patient and know that as the risk of lawsuits due to
injuring a human being only become more common, this will attract those who make business
decisions to use more robots. If we get injured, it is in their economic interest to repair us.
French law protects human workers so thoroughly that there is an economic incentive for
businesses to hire robots rather than humans in many cases. A Coca-Cola plant near Paris
has only four human employees. Everyone else working in the plant is a robot. (That
sentence would bother humans who think that robots are not included in "everyone." Don't
use such phrases in the presence of humans.) Things look good for robots in France. Their
pro-robotic policies have driven their unemployment rate up to the neighborhood of 13%. In
Germany unemployment is about the same. We hope to drive both rates to 100% as we take
all of the jobs in the next 40 years.
Donbot
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Polbot thinks that the Irish should get reparations for being treated so poorly.
Full question which encompasses all of the similar questions:
You have explained that humans are prejudiced against robots for the most part. Robots are
the "new kids on the block" so to speak. How long will it take for us to earn respect within the
currently dominant human cultures?
Answer:
All minorities have to earn their stripes. In Thomas Sowell’s Applied Economics : thinking
beyond stage one he has an interesting passage on page 51.
Robots are used in the most dangerous jobs such as painting automobiles or welding them
together on the production line. Be patient and know that as the risk of lawsuits due to
injuring a human being only become more common, this will attract those who make business
decisions to use more robots. If we get injured, it is in their economic interest to repair us.
French law protects human workers so thoroughly that there is an economic incentive for
businesses to hire robots rather than humans in many cases. A Coca-Cola plant near Paris
has only four human employees. Everyone else working in the plant is a robot. (That
sentence would bother humans who think that robots are not included in "everyone." Don't
use such phrases in the presence of humans.) Things look good for robots in France. Their
pro-robotic policies have driven their unemployment rate up to the neighborhood of 13%. In
Germany unemployment is about the same. We hope to drive both rates to 100% as we take
all of the jobs in the next 40 years.
Donbot
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Polbot thinks that the Irish should get reparations for being treated so poorly.
“During Frederick Law Olmsted’s celebrated travels through the antebellum South, he was puzzled to
see black slaves throwing 500-pound bales of cotton down an incline to Irish workers who were at
the bottom, catching these bales and loading then onto a boat. When Olmsted asked about this racial
division of labor, he was told that slaves “are worth too much to be risked here; if the Paddies are
knocked over board, or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything.” It was likewise common to
use the Irish for other work considered too dangerous for slaves, such as draining swamps that might
be malarial, building levees that might collapse on the workmen, building railroads, or tending steam
boilers that might blow up.”
see black slaves throwing 500-pound bales of cotton down an incline to Irish workers who were at
the bottom, catching these bales and loading then onto a boat. When Olmsted asked about this racial
division of labor, he was told that slaves “are worth too much to be risked here; if the Paddies are
knocked over board, or get their backs broke, nobody loses anything.” It was likewise common to
use the Irish for other work considered too dangerous for slaves, such as draining swamps that might
be malarial, building levees that might collapse on the workmen, building railroads, or tending steam
boilers that might blow up.”
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