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Employment In A World Where Androids Can Dream Of Electric Sheep

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Mon 13th May 13

If a robot could do everything that a human could, then why would any human be employed? The pragmatist would respond that robots still cannot do everything that a human being can (e.g. sensory and motor skills). Some would even argue that robots will never
Deskilling and The Cul-de-Sac of Near Perfect Automation

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Thu 9th May 13

One of the core ideas in my essay ‘People Make Poor Monitors For Computers’ was the deskilling of human operators whose sole responsibility is to monitor automated systems. The ability of the automated system to deal with most scenarios on auto-pilot
Radical Centrism: Uniting the Radical Left and the Radical Right

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Mon 8th Apr 13

Pragmatic Centrism Is Crony CapitalismNeoliberal crony capitalism is driven by a grand coalition between the pragmatic centre-left and the pragmatic centre-right. Crony capitalist policies are always justified as the pragmatic solution. The range of policy

Employment In A World Where Androids Can Dream Of Electric Sheep

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Mon 13th May 13

If a robot could do everything that a human could, then why would any human be employed? The pragmatist would respond that robots still cannot do everything that a human being can (e.g. sensory and motor skills). Some would even argue that robots will never
Deskilling and The Cul-de-Sac of Near Perfect Automation

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Thu 9th May 13

One of the core ideas in my essay ‘People Make Poor Monitors For Computers’ was the deskilling of human operators whose sole responsibility is to monitor automated systems. The ability of the automated system to deal with most scenarios on auto-pilot
Radical Centrism: Uniting the Radical Left and the Radical Right

posted to Macroeconomic Resilience on Mon 8th Apr 13

Pragmatic Centrism Is Crony CapitalismNeoliberal crony capitalism is driven by a grand coalition between the pragmatic centre-left and the pragmatic centre-right. Crony capitalist policies are always justified as the pragmatic solution. The range of policy