Even as a casual follower of robotics I don't see this - there is no "man" keeping robotic advancement down. Go down to your local hacker space and talk to the robotics guy, there's always at least one of them.
Funny, cause you just used the counter-argument on your own. Trust people to do the right thing? That's exactly what you're doing when you have a government. Who else would run the government then? Robots? Angels? Robot-Angels? People run the government. People who you trust to do the right thing, while they wield…
I can't watch videos at work but the "robots do all the work" future has been predicted as 20 years in the future for the last 60 years. I'm being optimistic when I say this might be true for the 22nd century. We need to get out of the "flying car future" mindset - my prediction for the future: computers will be as…
So uhh... what's the part you're disagreeing with me on? Sounds like we're on the same page. Cause I think we both know the situation you described is just not gonna happen. It's gonna take some kind of rainbow robot angel for that to happen. Since we don't live in a world with awesome sci-fi mythological beings, we better…
LOL That's even funnier, because you ALSO just used the counter-argument on your own! That's exactly what you're doing when you have NO government or a powerless government. I lend my power to another man with my vote, but I can take it away from him as well. But if you remove that power from me than I am nothing but a…
Greevar: I don't think discarding money altogether would be a good solution, but your motivation video and a sci fi book i read a while ago (For us, the living - Robert Heinlein) give rise to an idea where everyone is granted a basic income that is enough to be able to live in a reasonable situation. So you don't have to…
Well no, the point I was making is that either way you twist it, BOTH of our arguments are about trusting people to do the right thing. You were saying that we would have to trust people in the absence of government, which would mean that we don't have to fall back on that if there's a government there. I'm merely trying…