What Happens If Robots Automate The World? - John Danaher - #291
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03/06/21
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John Danaher is an author and a lecturer at the National University of Ireland.
Having a job is valorised in modern society. But if our jobs are taken over by robots, will we find a sense of purpose in other things outside of work, or are we just going to lead meaningless lives?
Expect to learn why technological unemployment might be desirable, what a cyborg utopia might look like, why John thinks losing work might not result in loss of purpose, the risks of sacrificing human values in pursuit of utopia and much more...
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Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.
Signalling is something everyone is doing all of the time. We are constantly leaking information about ourselves and our motives, but most of that information is involuntary.
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