IMAGINE THAT 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?

Well...probably fuck and fight and fuck up the world. But seriously, can we cut the alarmist subtitle that gets de-alarmed in the opening paragraphs.

This article seems like a text version of Human's Need Not Apply, the video that went massively viral last summer and sparked crazy controversy all over my facebook feed (do NOT tell creatives and liberal arts kids a robot can do their job!) This subject is always an interesting path of thought to go down and I'm glad this got posted simply for rezzeJ's comment. I enjoy taking short walks down this path but refuse to go too deep. The reality is, we have no idea how this is going to play out. We will have more and more robots. We will have AI. We probably won't refer to either of those things using those words though.

Maybe I should read more books on the subject, as I consciously and subconsciously think about Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect whenever considering this subject. (cc mhr) This is proven by the fact my opening sentence of this comment is violence and sex – same as the opening chapters of Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. We can consider all the infinite possibilities of what will happen as we evolve, but all that does is ensure that that consideration is not the right one. Typically, I am confident in my assumption that human's primal nature will survive in some format and that sex and violence will persevere. However, Japan has stopped having sex and it's only getting worse, so not even that is a safe assumption.

We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can.

That's about where I stand as well, although I am not as eager or welcoming of our new overlords. But evolution is evolution and we should probably just evolve into robots already. We probably need to cut back on every decision we make being marred by religion first though. That's only going to hinder our evolution and give me a fat headache in the process.