Information Addiction

[Drareg]

Great quote.


Any job that does not require intuition and involves highly repetitive tasks may be replaced. Or rather such jobs may not be completely replaced but the existing workers may be given powerful tools that make them much more efficient hence less workers are required (thus jobs that require intuition may also be at risk). In general technology is not advancing quite as fast as the general public seems to believe (it is not exponential) due to a variety of factors. Also technological advancements are modulated by culture. Products that are too ahead of its time often fall on its face. Ray Peat said "the nature of science itself changed around the middle of the last century, becoming product and disease oriented", the same is true for modern day engineering. Engineering and especially software engineering does not simply strive for progress but rather for a buck. For this reason general technological advancement is greatly hindered by our culture. Jobs will only be replaced if it is culturally acceptable to do so.


That's a good idea. Though predicting the time a job will be replaced would be difficult as it depends almost entirely on culture. We have the technology to replace or greatly reduce the workforce in many, many jobs now. It is mostly cultural factors that hold technology back.

Great points.
Too many out of work and the consumer economy looses steam,don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

[Drareg]

This Claude Shannon quote is very good imo-
"One has the vague feeling that information and meaning may prove to be something like a pair of canonically conjugate variables in quantum theory,they being subject to some joint restriction that condemns a person to the sacrifice of the one as he insists on having the other".
Also know as the founder of information theory.

Reducing uncertainty with information but this differs per individual,per animal.
What uncertainty are you looking to reduce? Is this uncertainty influenced by culture?
It's possible to reduce uncertainty with misinformation adding further to the confusion,is misinformation within this reality the only way to reduce uncertainty in humans,what can we ever certain about?