FA_Q2
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There really is nothing to 'minimize' IMHO. They are coming and will likely make things much easier for people in general. The change in the economy is going to come well before lifelike robots are the norm. We are already seeing machines that are replacing highly skilled labor and doing it far more efficiently than people ever could. The largest employment sector at this time is transportation - an employment sector that will essentially become nonexistent within the next ten years. There is already a mechanical doctor out there that outperforms any family practitioner.Sometimes that 'adaptation' is pretty damned harsh, like when we adapted to the global ash cloud after the Toba eruption and the human race was nearly brought to extinction.Really nothing that can be done - technology will move forward and lifelike robots are coming. We will adapt as we always have adapted to previous technology.
The goal of most of this sort of discussion is how to minimize human losses and suffering, like the kind of suffering that most of us will experience in a jobless economy with 85% real U6 unemployment.
Yes, the transition is going to be painful as the last one was (the industrial revolution) but it will leave us far better off. As the last one did as well.