"replace things that were done by humans" isn't a loss by itself, if it frees up human labour to do other things.
If human replaced by AI can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss but not necessarily AI's fault.
Doesn't apply to all situations, but "replace things that were done by humans" in arts can absolutely be a loss by itself. Making graphics/speech/video a commodity doesn't replace designers, voice actors, or directors, but we've definitely see it can directly harm them and the people that enjoy their work.
> can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss
I feel like this misses the point a bit - lost income/sustainability for artists is obviously a big issue we'll be facing, but looking for a performance indicator in an artistic endeavour doesn't really get you anywhere. There's more ways to value a painting than "what the market would pay" and "potential heat output as firewood", right?
How do you feel about replacing general labor, period, and doing so for a class that no longer maintains a semblance of a social safety net? Do you think there's a difference between displacing one profession and displacing most professions at once?
Do you people ever step out of the abstract and think about the actual context you're living in?
I will gladly pay taxes directed for retraining artists, but I will not pay to listen to Wil Wheaton narrate another book badly when my computer can do it better.
I mentioned typists, you abstracted it to “most professions at once”, and you give me a hard time for being too abstract?
I agree with your criticism, just not sure you understand who you were criticizing. But I hope you can think about actual context and see if that tempers what seems like a pretty emotional take on AI.
Not sure if you realise that the social credit system is commonly misinterpreted ? It's just a similar financial credit score system in the west. Theres nothing in place that remotely looks like that episode of black mirror.
Because they are not going to spend it on things that's going to help them improve skills and finding jobs, they'll stuck as homeless forever.
Like when world bank lend money to country that are bankrupted, they ask them to take the money for reform and try to improve their economy, same should happen here.
But if the traffic to SO is reduced significantly because of Google, there will be a death spiral. There wouldn't be a site to go and ask new questions, and even if the site is still there, nobody will bother to answer. The core problem is that the people who create the new knowledge (the answer writers) and the people who aggregate the knowledge (StackOverflow) will not get any concrete return for their efforts, since they are cut out of the consumption loop.
You don't need to be a big business like SO to provide this service. The death spiral would only make sense for a business with demands for growth out pacing the market, so they exit. or who has an operation which is too expensive vs the ad revenue.
But that doesn't mean other businesses can't fill that reduced role more efficiently.
You need to be a place that people go to ask and answer these questions. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are if you don’t exist because the people answering the questions don’t go to you in the first place. You’re right that there’s another means in which a business can fill this, but I don’t think it’ll be stack overflow.
1-way communication device are used in cheating all the time, it involves of someone that's really good at exams taking the same test, sneak out to the toilet and tell them the answers.
My licensing exam was computer adaptive. We were wanded, turned pockets inside out, videoed. You couldn't eat, take jackets on our off or anything. Lots of rules around how you sat at the table. These must be a fair bit lower tech for the cheating to work. You could wear earplugs and earmuf style sound suppression which I did. Wouldn't be super difficult to have audio in -> but I don't think it would have done much good.
It was done regularly in my highschool in the 2000s, there'd be two or three versions of the test and they'd be distributed randomly. We'd know which one we got because of a label in the corner, which was also how they used the right key for grading.
It'd surprise me if such a simple mitigation wasn't done for more important exams...
Medical licensing exams in the US are randomized within the same sitting, even having two examiners in the same room receiving entirely different questions (not just random question ordering).
I've had plenty of professional and academic exams with multiple different versions of the exam with the questions scrambled. I think almost all of my Bachelor level science courses were provided in that way, as well as multiple Bar exams.
Bluetooth range on headsets is pretty mediocre though. Especially when blocked by body parts. I've never done an exam where the toilets were within Bluetooth range.
I grow up in Beijing and I have to say this is not accurate but statement like this surely is eye-catching in western media...
My view on this is that the old generation just don't have the habit and common courtesy of living in cities, they lived in poor rural areas for many years before come to the city.
Things like queueing, keep voice down was simply not needed outside of city, The young generation is much better at these, though still have plenty of space to improve!
> According to the Post, square dancing has its roots in the Cultural Revolution, particularly the great link-up of 1965 and the educated youth campaign in 1969. The damas are of middle age because square dancing links back to these moments of their youth when collectivism was an important social value in China.
I agree that the 60s has a link to this collective activity, but I believe they do it now to exercise and socialise, it's not a power move or anything. The Chinese society are ashamed of that period, and a power move like that will back fire.
Another part in play could be the Confucius culture, some stubborn elders would expect respect from youngsters even though they are the annoying kid.
I don't know Xi's intentions, but there is a lot of rhetoric from him about restoring China's 'natural place' as the world's leader as viewed through hundreds of years ago.
This reminds me a plot in "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", where the Taichi master asks the student how much he remembered what was shown to him, and keeps doing it until he "remembers nothing", that's when he has fully learned Taichi.
