Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 3: Transhumanism
and people get sick, need time off, need sleep, have a family life, private
time, a forty hour workweek, vacations, and often expect free weekends.
They also need to be paid. A robot can work twenty hours of the day with
few needs, besides occasional repairs and tune-ups. However, this is only
temporary because self-repairing robots are now being tested on the market.
Of course, there needs to be some kind of equilibrium in the world of
business. If most of the population is unemployed, they can’t feed the
corporations with money to buy their products, so the constant money flow
will stop, and everything will crash.
The Administrators have thought of that, too. The robots, with their
artificial intelligence, will not totally take over the market; there will still
be workers, although they will be forced to work more and more, side-byside
with robots. However, the fear of having a totally robot-controlled
market is a part of the initiation into the AI agenda. When Kurzweil was
asked about robots taking over the job market, he admitted that this might
be a problem in the beginning, but as soon as the world is under serious
reconstruction to serve the Singularity, there will be work for everybody.
In the meantime, to hold us over, we might need Government aid, he says.
Well, with all the current and future financial crises, this does not seem
feasible, but then again, the Administrators are busy working on crashing
the world economy so they can create a new form of world currency that
will supposedly work in the post Singularity world. Whatever happens in
this regard, I sense tough times ahead.
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