Why It's Good That Robots Will Take Your Job

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A handful of high-tech firms in New York City are building machines that will one day become our secretaries, surgeons, and maids. Reason TV Contributor Naomi Brockwell visited three of these companies to find out how their products could change our relationship to machines. Will robots ultimately take all the jobs?

The companies we visited are Honeybee Robotics, which makes machines

for NASA, and the aerospace, medical, energy, and mining industries; Robotbase, which is developing a personal robot called "Maya;" and Bond, which has produced a machine that can mimic a users' handwriting.

About 4 minutes.

Shot, produced, and edited by Jim Epstein; hosted by Naomi Brockwell.

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[Florida Man]

How ironic. The first two post about bots are from bots.

[Rhywun]

Fist must be the prototype. Explains a lot.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What's a synonym for prototype?

[woodNfish]

synonyms: original, first example/model, master, mold, template, framework, mock-up, pattern, sample; design, guide, blueprint

[Florida Man]

Also I did some home automation stuff this past weekend. Love it. Now the wife doesn't drive me crazy asking if the lights are on, door is locked, or if the garage is closed.

[Zeb]

I solve those problems by not caring about the lights and never locking anything.

I'm not what you'd call an early adopter of technology.

[Zeb]

Fortunately, my wife's OCD doesn't include worrying about those sorts of things.

[The Last American Hero]

Hopefully, it does include ensuring your needs are satisfied.

[Dweebston]

Sexist.

[Florida Man]

I never worry about that stuff myself, but I love gadgets and doing house projects.

[Puddin' Stick]

I'd like to do that myself? what system did you choose?

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[AlmightyJB]

Whens someone going to invent a decent spellcheck

[Zeb]

I'm going to say no. There will always be jobs. Even if they are nothing that we would consider job-like today. People need jobs. Or work, anyway.

[Tony]

Why?

[Florida Man]

It is strongly correlated with happiness. People who feel they are productive and useful tend to have higher self esteem and lower rates of depression.

[Tony]

So let them be productive instead of spending most of their waking lives making money for someone they don't even know.

[Puddin' Stick]

So you're a tax protestor now?

[Contrarian P]

That's not how most people view their jobs, at least the ones who are happy. I realize it gives you some kind of moral cover for stealing people's money, but the reality is that most people believe that what they do is helpful to people and worthwhile to society, or is just enjoyable. Sure, some folks work for money only, but they tend to be miserable.

[Tony]

I must visit whatever planet you're on. Working for pleasure is a luxury probably far less than 1% of the population of this species has.

[Otisjay]

What a sad view of the world you have.

[MSimon]

I'm an engineer. I design robots. It IS a pleasure.

[Old Man With Candy]

I'm an engineer. I design robots. It IS a pleasure.

Good for you. Where's my sexbot?

[mauricegirodias]

Am I wrong for wanting to scream "why the hell didn't they check out Pittsburgh and Carnegie Freaking Mellon instead of NYC for Robotics?" 'Cuz I do want to scream that, actually.

/Go Ravens.

[Old Man With Candy]

Go Ravens

No Smith and Jones. Ouch. TS apparently off to SF?

[Dweebston]

Where in "most (happy) people believe that what they do is worthwhile or enjoyable" did you get "working for pleasure"? You refuse to cede anything without a vapid argument, don't you? Do your boyfriends enjoy bickering with you as much as you do with commenters here?

[woodNfish]

"I realize it gives you some kind of moral cover for stealing people's money,"

Huh? Who's manifesto have you been reading? If I make or sell a product or service that people want, how is that "cover for stealing" their money?

Also, most people work so they can eat and have shelter for themselves and their family. Happiness rarely has anything to do with it while necessity has everything to do with it. If they are able to get a little happiness or satisfaction from it that just makes it easier to do.

You are also wrong about people who work only for money. If they enjoy their job as well, it is just icing on the cake.

[Troy muy grande boner]

If by productive, you mean getting my first tier 10 tank in World of Tanks, then I'm on board. Otherwise, work is highly overrated.

[Juice]

There will always be jobs.

There may be things with which people occupy themselves, but they won't necessarily be "jobs". There will likely be a time in the future where people won't need to work for pay, but there will still be opportunities to do so. The next economic system will be as different to the present one as the present one is to medieval feudalism.

[SIV]

Robot food trucks

[Fist of Etiquette]

The robots won't take over dick. I have a plan.

[waffles]

You mendacious silicon twat. Prove you aren't a robot! Prove it!

[Florida Man]

Don't we have to give him an unsolvable problem or some bullshit to make his head explode?

[waffles]

He's proven resilient. I fear the only measure we have to fight the Fist is spoiling the endings of his favorite entertainment.

[Florida Man]

Fisting porn?

[Fist of Etiquette]

We all know how that ends.

[Florida Man]

Yes. Anal fissure.

[Dweebston]

Great name for a band. You should write that down, Steve.

[Charles Easterly]

"Don't we have to give him an unsolvable problem or some bullshit to make his head explode?"

Evidently, when the robots are ready to take complete control, when no human or group of humans nor mortally limited countermeasures are able to stop them, and the robots need not be concerned with exposing their readiness, they will post here first - many minutes before Fist. Then will his or her head explode in an "all too late" realization of utter defeat.

Fist's plans to save the Richards of the world from robot control notwithstanding.

[The Last American Hero]

Hey, lay off. He got a 94 percent on the human purity test.

[Troy muy grande boner]

What about robotic dicks? Like the DoomCock??

[Zeb]

The other thing is, robots are expensive. As long as there are lots of people willing to work for low wages, a lot of stuff won't be automated. Robot's aren't going to take our jobs just to be annoying. Of course there are examples, like fast food, where people want to get paid more than they are worth and they probably will lose their jobs to robots.

[mad.casual]

Robot's aren't going to take our jobs just to be annoying.

The problem isn't robots taking our jobs to be annoying, the problem is dickheads taking and/or pricing us out of our jobs and giving them to robots.

[creech]

Ah for the future. My grandson's robot can scream for robot kids to "get off my lawn" while he is freed up to trade insults with our trolls' grandkids here on reason hit & run version 27.0, where editing will finally be provided.

[Charles Easterly]

"... on reason hit & run version 27.0, where editing will finally be provided."

Perhaps we'll see flying cars first.

[Suthenboy]

I don't remember who posted it, but the most important development in this field was the implantation of the bionic eye.

They were able to successfully hardwire the thing into the guy's retina and he can use it to see.

A new world is upon us. I am thinking right around the corner is spinal cord repair, mechanical body part replacements/enhancements, a brain for Tony and shreek, etc.

[Florida Man]

I just went to an anesthesia conference and they had future of tech in healthcare. They have a device that can reconnect a severed spinal cord. The last hurtle is power supply, the prototype has an external power supply. The other big thing is implants. We already have beep brain stimulators, pacemakers, etc, but there will be a ton more of implants for other diseases like obesity and Alzheimer's. Cool stuff if the FDA doesn't fuck it up.

[Libertarian]

Cool stuff if the FDA doesn't fuck it up.

HAHHAHAHAHA!!

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I hate the FDA. There is a muscle relaxant reversal agent called sugammadex that is approved in Europe. The FDA shut it down because of a single skin reaction in the final trials in the US. 1 reaction that wasn't even linked definitively to the drug. And people wonder why healthcare is so expensive.

[Dweebston]

We're all looking for sugar mama.

[Juice]

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[DesigNate]

a brain for Tony and shreek,

That, sir, is a bridge too far.

[Michael Ejercito]

Okasy, suppose you can replace a retina, which essentially transforms light into whatever the fuck nerve signals are.

How the fuck do we make mechanical analogues of an iris? or a lens?

[UnCivilServant]

Those are, in fact, easier than the nerve interface - because we had them on cameras decades ago. They're called - irises and lenses.

[Libertarian]

Forgive me if I'm not clutching my pearls. I'm old enough to remember the consensus that robots doing all of our work for us was a GOOD thing.

[Rayson]

You must have been around long
before terminator films.

[The Bad Captain Madly]

That was before people realized that nobody's gonna pay them when robots are doing their work.

[Tony]

It is a good thing, and inevitable, so we need to make sure we have a solid socialist welfare state in place. You can yell at the robots for not living up to the Puritan work ethic when they break, if you absolutely can't rid yourself of that reflex.

[Florida Man]

I don't know if it is really a welfare system if we achieve a post scarcity economy. I'm also curious if the population will increase because people don't have to worry about the cost of raising kids or if it will decrease because there is less need for a work force.

[mad.casual]

post scarcity economy

I'm beginning to loathe this phrase. It reminds me of every dorm-room discussion where a couple of half-lit bulbs look around and see people they consider to be idiots and conclude natural selection has been defeated and evolution is a relic.

Socialism in an effort to reach the post-scarcity economy is how we defeat the robots. They can tear each other apart to make ever increasing numbers of bureaucrat bots that do nothing except hinder the progress and productivity of humans and workerbots alike.

Even post-scarcity, someone's going to have to keep track of unfathomably abundant hills of beans.

[Juice]

There's no such thing as post-scarcity. There is no limit to human wants. Also, there will be the laws of thermodynamics to deal with and energy will always be limited. BUT, there will be a time when no one really wants for food, shelter, clothing, and whatnot. But, how will that come about? Will it be a centralized bureaucracy doling out goods? Hell no. People have tried that and it fails every time. I don't know what it'll look like, but it won't be a socialist state.

[Michael Ejercito]

There will be no restraints on normal sex. In fact, more people will breed at earlier ages.

[fish]

......so we need to make sure we have a solid socialist welfare state in place.

So in addition to difficulty finding work to maintain yourself you want to turn it a dystopian political nightmare state too?!?!

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a solid socialist welfare state

No, please, stop. I can't take anymore.

[Dweebston]

so we need to make sure we have a solid socialist welfare state in placeOr in fewer words, not the broken transfer schemes we're saddled with.

[Dweebston]

But we can guarantee your ilk will do their damndest to ensure the prosperous post-automated world will never come about, precisely because you've so much riding on union jobs and poverty.

Progressivism: spreading poverty along with the work.

[OldMexican]

Re: Tony,

It is a good thing, and inevitable, so we need to make sure we have a solid socialist welfare state in place.

Let's spend the robots' future now! In the long run, we're all dead.

[Mongo]

The thing I fear most is half robot/half machine.

[AlmightyJB]

Fear not

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.....Helfer.jpg

[Mongo]

Uff da.

[Chumby]

I for one embrace our future robot overlords.

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How about replacing cops with robots? then that would exclude the possibility of racial; bias, civil rights violations, etc.?

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[Slocum]

Stop worrying -- it's not going to happen any time soon. Robots can do some impressive things, and yet they remain quite stupid. Look at the Amazon "Kiva" robots -- impressive and yet very limited. They remain too dumb to pluck an item out of a bin and pack it in a box, so the robot has to move the entire shelving module across the the warehouse to a human who picks the item, and then the robot has to put the entire shelf back. In this 'automated' warehouse, the robots are still just brainless gofers and the humans provide the critical brains/visual abilities/manual dexterity.

[Dweebston]

You'll be among the first against the wall after the robot revolution.

[nailzer]

That's what the world needs, ED 209 like the one from "Robocop"

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You think Lois `s posting is nice... on Sunday I bought Jaguar E-type since getting a cheque for $9279 this last 5 weeks and more than ten thousand last month . it's definitely the nicest-job Ive ever had . I began this seven months/ago and straight away was bringing home minimum $79, per-hr .
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[kamka]

Step by step we are moving towards future without writing, reading, cooking by our own hands and so on. Robots will be everywhere, they will replace almost all physical workers, each pupil and student will attend only remote classes. However, I still wonder what will become with the countries of the third world though minions service has already provided their opinion. Needless to say, rather controversial.

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