One way of thinking about productivity: the ability to increase the total amount of resources available though your labor.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
But even though *average* productivity increases with complexity, the composition is not uniform. Many people are rendered *unproductive*.
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Modern farm labor is so unproductive that the primary focus of competition is limiting the resources you need to survive.
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We realize education & training will not save us from obsolescence post-singularity, but somehow they are the answer now.
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@sarahdoingthing "we" is different in those two examples1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@drethelin Easier to pretend fake solutions work when you, yourself, are not in the affected class?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing I meant more that almost no one cares about or believes in the singularity1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing even low level automation singularity is not really a concept for most people1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@drethelin which is funny because it's all around us
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@sarahdoingthing sorry I wasn't listening I was busy getting a very specific soda out of this touch screen enabled dispenser0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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