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		eru on Aug 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Martin Ford Asks: Will Automation Lead to Economic... Jobs won't be hard to automate because they require superior abstract intelligence. The machines will have covered that pretty soon. Some will be hard to automate, because they are fuzzy and depend on interacting with human beings. It's harder for a robot to cut your hair and put on make up like you direct it to, than to play chess.

Zaak on Aug 20, 2011 [–]

That just moves the problem into the future. What happens when we can build a machine with the mental abilities of a human being for the price of a supercomputer? Then what happens when it falls to the price of a smartphone?

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