I am not saying that at all. In my essay, I wrote about the diversity of human societies in how they treat old people.
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Certain nomadic societies actually kill old women because their contributions are no longer relevant to a new terrain. They are a baggage.
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Engineers and technical workers, who need to spend a long time building something, they are equivalent to women in reproductive currency.
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Financial investors who can very quickly move their capital from one place to another are like men, who disperse semen facing fewer losses.
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My point is that a society where technology makes everything rapidly obsolete, it is similar to a nomadic society that kills old women.
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Replying to @vakibs
Except for the fact that it feeds these old women quite well.
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Technological unemployment is a real thing. In my opinion, with the current trajectory of machine learning as black boxes, it will increase.
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Of course it will. It will annihilate the current labor based mode of individual resource allocation. (And that is a good thing, IMHO.)
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I am not worried of people starving or dying of diseases. I hope (but don't completely trust) the social welfare state to take care of this.
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But what I am worried of is people losing their agency and their capacity to dream a different future. They will feel they are useless.
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We can give them computer games. If that is not enough, they can write computer games.
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Ludopathy first, then alcohol or other drugs, maybe, or pills. Remembering this via
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