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RE: AI: Drifting away from life

in #science6 years ago

I remember a similar conversation cropping up on G+ some time ago. A similar question was explored (on what people would do when AIs took over their jobs). Some people in creative endeavours felt that they were pretty safe as there was a firm belief that no matter how good AI got they would never, ever compare to a human. I personally didn't care if AIs became sentient and cogniscient and masterful novel writers and movie makers, I would go ahead telling stories because I like doing it XD

Assuming not too much else changes (we can still live in a house and pursue whatever interests and activities) there's so much stuff we would love to be doing instead of this "working for a living" crap. But that's us, can only speculate how people in general would deal with it. But yeh it's hard ot know how things are going to be if/when that occurs :)

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Assuming not too much else changes (we can still live in a house and pursue whatever interests and activities) there's so much stuff we would love to be doing instead of this "working for a living" crap.

Working for a living sucks but, so does doing nothing for a life, in my opinion. I would have absolutely no trouble finding things to do with my life I find rewarding however, I predict people overestimate their own abilities to do so.

When transitioning to homeschooling from traditional schooling, a period of deschooling usually happens:

In a practical context, it refers to the mental process a person goes through after being removed from a formal schooling environment, when the "school mindset" is eroded over time. Deschooling may refer to the time period it takes for children removed from school to adjust to learning in an unstructured environment.

or in a nutshell "relax and don't do much for a little while". I don't have any experience with this as none of my kids ever went to school, I have heard/read recommendations of 1 month for every year the child has been at school. Guess some would take more or less time depending on the person. It doesn't seem too far a stretch that any given adult used to a 9-5 office job with possible insane overtime who suddenly gets dropped would undergo a similar process. If the rough guideline of 1 month for each year spent in the workforce is applied it wouldn't be too surprising for some people to spend a year or so being a lazy mass consumer before finally getting around to doing all of those things that they said they wanted to do :)