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		throwanem on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say... Really? Humans are unparalleled when it comes to doing things in the physical world. An AI interested in doing things in the physical world could do much worse than to assemble a team of humans and give them a reason to want to accomplish the things it wants done.

srtjstjsj on July 13, 2017 [–]

unparalleled? the vast majority of physical work is done by machines. humans are the gods in the gaps

throwanem on July 13, 2017 | [–]

You're wrong about who does most of the work. But even if you weren't - who builds the machines?

che_shirecat on July 13, 2017 | | [–]

other machines. much more efficiently too. programming those machines is gap work

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