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jarvelov | 7 years ago

With those options then Net influencer or Instagram model surely? When the task of picking berries can be automated the manual labor should be shifted to other activities.

Naturally one might argue that it would be better for society where it so that people put in their hours into other fields than those that seek to profit on people's vanity.

However, when the option is what would essentially be meaningless work when compared to a machine performing the same task, then for me at least I would prefer people to be Net influencers or Instagram models.

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stephengillie|7 years ago

If only we could automate the attribute of "being a human". Alas, as I often say, "as long as humans exist, there will be a demand for other humans to explain things to them". Thus a machine picks the berries while a human explains their feelings about the berries.

Could not the human do both, and take the job back from the robots?

durkie|7 years ago

Have you picked berries for hours on end? It's terrible work.