Quote from: giantdragon on March 02, 2014, 03:13:52 PM

Quote from: Rassah on March 02, 2014, 06:19:11 AM

If these machines are capable of replacing us, then why would they care about us or do anything to keep our species going?

It is nearly impossible to predict how AI development will go, but my personal opinion is that autonomous robots and software capable to replace ~50% of workforce will appear much earlier than self-aware ("thinking") machines.

Quote from: Rassah on March 02, 2014, 06:19:11 AM

Where would a guaranteed income come from?

If you have read my posts you probably know that I prefer another solution rather than unconditional income. Address this question to it's supporters.

Quote from: Rassah on March 02, 2014, 06:19:11 AM

He was saying that the tech unemployment problem is only something that happens in a socialist system, and can't happen in a capitalist system. Thus, there is no solution for tech unemployment in a capitalist system, because such a thing simply can't happen in that system.

Technological unemployment can appear only in capitalist system. In the variant of socialism with planned economy it is impossible in principle!

@thedarklight, please post summary of your idea.

Abstract

The ideas presented in this paper developed in response to help resolve some of the problems which will result from technological unemployment. We believe that as machines become more intelligent and work currently done by human beings become automated there will be a sharp increase in the unemployment rate as humans are laid off to be replaced by intelligent machines. We believe that intelligent machines can be leveraged to provide a basic dividend to a decentralized pseudo-anonymous group of owners as a means of providing an axillary safety-net which cannot be shut down by any government or corporation.

http://darkai.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Resilience-Project-Whitepaper-Draft-3c.pdf

My unfinished whitepaper provides an outline for a solution to technological unemployment. The whitepaper could use some editing, can be improved upon in the details, but it shows that you can have basic income under a pure capitalist system. No one has to use the government to take anything from anyone else. The government is merely bypassed in favor of technology which makes everything so cheap that the cost of living goes down.

Capital assets in the form of dividend paying stocks for instance can provide basic income. You do not need to tax the rich to feed the poor because economic growth can pay enough in dividends to provide basic income to entire cities or entire countries. I hope to show that you can use the levers of capitalism even easier than you can use the levers of government and without any confrontation because you decide how to distribute your shares.