Showing posts with label Robotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robotics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

15: Robots

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Friday, March 21, 2025

21: Robotics

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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Kalkiism: A Radical Vision for the Future Economy



Kalkiism: A Radical Vision for the Future Economy

In an age where robotics and artificial intelligence are rapidly transforming the global workforce, a groundbreaking economic philosophy is emerging to ensure humanity reaps the benefits of these immense productivity gains. Kalkiism, as outlined in the book The Kalkiist Manifesto, proposes a revolutionary system that challenges conventional economic norms and envisions a world built on equality, fairness, and human dignity.

What Is Kalkiism?

Kalkiism reimagines the economic structure by replacing money with time as the universal unit of value. In this system:

  • All jobs earn the same hourly wage measured in time units (seconds, minutes, hours).
  • Purchases are made using these time units, creating a standardized, equitable value system.
  • Everyone has a job, including traditionally undervalued roles like caregiving and homemaking.

The idea is simple yet transformative: when you work eight hours, you earn eight hours. This approach eliminates disparities in wages, elevates all forms of labor to equal status, and ensures that the economy values contributions based on time rather than monetary worth.

The Role of Technology

Kalkiism recognizes that advancements in robotics and AI have unlocked unprecedented productivity potential. These technologies can handle repetitive, hazardous, or high-efficiency tasks, freeing human workers to focus on creative, social, and meaningful roles. Kalkiism leverages this shift by:

  • Reducing reliance on long working hours.
  • Ensuring the equitable distribution of AI-generated wealth and productivity gains.
  • Emphasizing the importance of human labor in areas where technology cannot replicate empathy, care, and creativity.


Why Nepal?

The Manifesto suggests launching Kalkiism as a pilot project in Nepal. This small yet diverse nation provides an ideal testing ground for such a system due to its:

  • Manageable population size.
  • Existing challenges with economic disparity.
  • Rich cultural emphasis on community and cooperation.

Starting small allows for iterative improvements and the development of scalable strategies before introducing Kalkiism on a global stage.

The Potential Benefits

Kalkiism offers a range of advantages that address some of today’s most pressing economic and social issues:

  1. Social Equity: By removing monetary disparities, Kalkiism eliminates the gap between high-paying and low-paying jobs.
  2. Recognition of Unpaid Work: Domestic and caregiving roles, often overlooked in traditional economies, are fully integrated and valued.
  3. Simplified Economy: Time replaces complex monetary systems, reducing corruption and inefficiency.
  4. Productivity and Fairness: Robotics and AI maximize production, ensuring everyone’s basic needs are met while maintaining fairness.

Challenges to Address

Despite its promise, Kalkiism raises several questions and challenges:

  1. Value of Specialized Labor: Professions requiring extensive training, like medicine or engineering, may need additional incentives to attract skilled individuals.
  2. Global Integration: Transitioning from a money-based global economy to a time-based one will require significant coordination and collaboration.
  3. Resource Allocation: Managing the distribution of scarce or high-demand resources could be complex without monetary pricing mechanisms.
  4. Innovation Incentives: Without monetary rewards, encouraging entrepreneurship and technological advancement might be difficult.


Open Questions

Kalkiism opens the door to intriguing possibilities, but some crucial questions remain:

  • How will overconsumption or hoarding be addressed when goods are priced solely in time units?
  • What systems will ensure meaningful societal contributions from all participants?
  • How will international trade function under a time-based economic model?

The Vision Ahead

Kalkiism is more than an economic system; it is a call to rethink the way we value human effort and creativity in the age of automation. By aligning economic rewards with time—a resource every individual has equally—it aims to build a world where fairness, equality, and opportunity prevail.

As the pilot project in Nepal unfolds, the global community will watch closely to see if Kalkiism can deliver on its promises. Could this radical vision be the key to a fair and prosperous future? Only time will tell.






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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

19: Robotics

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Friday, November 15, 2019

Neil Sahota, Andrew Yang And The Creative Destruction Of Jobs By Robots And AI

Neil Sahota argues that, yes, jobs will be destroyed, but many more and higher quality jobs will be created. That jobs will be destroyed is much talked about. But that new jobs will be created is not much talked about. Neil's take is much-needed optimism in an otherwise gloom and doom mood swing.


Thanks To Robots, Humans Are Finally In Demand the most employable people in the future will be those who act like … well, people........ there is one area where A.I. is going to be very slow to surpass human intelligence: The Arts. That’s why we now talk about STEAM. ....... the importance of developing “soft skills” to thrive in a future in which robots can do tedious work once reserved for mankind. “We should be emphasizing problem-solving, leadership, creativity, collaboration, and, of course deploying emotional intelligence” ....... “We created an assembly-line system meant to churn out assembly-line workers” ...... “The bell rings, you move to where the schedule puts you, the bell rings again, you do as you’re told. Everyone gets processed in the same way, and at the end of the line you emerge with a certificate of quality.” ...... Automatons, while adept at taking orders, are not valued for their critical thinking abilities. ........ there are many robots capable of doing repetitive tasks, from stocking warehouses to dispensing prescriptions. ....... So, what can’t robots do? .... They cannot think. They cannot feel, dream, or imagine. And there are many theorists who suggest they never will...........

Unlike during the previous era, the coming automation age will prize human attributes like never before.

........ rather than being a zero-sum scourge upon the workforce, the rise of A.I. promises to tilt the nature of work in wonderfully positive, unprecedented ways....... we’re at the dawn of a new vocational reality. Today’s workforce stands to benefit not by taking orders or fulfilling rote tasks, but by doing what makes us uniquely human. .........

creativity is the most important skill for thriving in the 21st century



Andrew Yang: Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job Self-driving trucks will be great for the G.D.P. They’ll be terrible for millions of truck drivers.......... most factory job losses from 2000 to 2010 were caused by automation ........ 88 percent of factory job losses from 2000 to 2010 were caused by automation. ....... Automation doesn’t just affect millions of factory workers and truck drivers. Bookkeepers, journalists, retail and food service workers, office clerks, call center employees and even teachers also face the threat of being replaced by machines.......... 83 percent of jobs paying less than $20 per hour could have substantial parts of their work given over to automation....... Around five million manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2000, with automation being a main factor. Many of those jobs were in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Iowa — states that swung to Donald Trump in 2016. ...... about half of the Michigan workers who left the labor force may have filed for disability and many might never get off it, as the rate at which people come off disability benefits is extremely low. We then saw surges in suicides and drug overdoses to the point where life expectancy has either declined or stayed flat for three years in a row, something that hasn’t happened since the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918......... ....stock market prices don’t mean much to the 78 percent of workers in this country who are living paycheck to paycheck or the 40 percent of workers who are a $400 bill away from financial crisis ........ Human-centered capitalism would ensure that people are more important than money and that markets exist to serve our common goals and values....... four in 10 people in the United States live with unhealthy air or that nearly three in five adults with mental illness do not get treated..........

Our G.D.P. is over $20 trillion, and yet the average American is struggling.

..... A millennial has only a 50-50 chance of doing better than their parents. For someone born in the 1940s, the likelihood was 90 percent. The American dream is dying by the numbers.


For Andrew Yang, New Hampshire is a "homecoming" and a big bet At the very top of every New Hampshire stump speech, presidential candidate Andrew Yang notes his somewhat tenuous connection to the state: "How many of you know I went to high school in New Hampshire?" ..... "When I first showed up here in New Hampshire, I was like, does that count?" Yang chuckled to college students at Plymouth State University. "They were like, 'Oh yeah, that counts.'" ...... While other 2020 contenders have slashed New Hampshire based staff and travel in favor of Iowa, Yang has spent more days campaigning in the Granite State than any other presidential candidate this year, with more than 70 appearances in 2019 alone. He placed a "mid-six figure" television ad buy in the state on Thursday, rolling out two new spots. ........ ....Last month, the political upstart rendered a bold declaration about his campaign to nearly one hundred witnesses in a packed coffeehouse: "If this does not come out of New Hampshire, it dies." ....... Conversations with half a dozen of Yang's high school friends reveal a rebellious teen, albeit the kind that still aces exams and arrives early to Glee Club. "Andy" was "low-key funny," wore a black trench coat, and openly hated school. ...... "James Dean was like a rebel without a cause, right? He didn't give a s***," high school friend and close confidant Fiona Singer says. "He's a rebel with a cause, for sure. The free-thinking kind." ...... Hat sales have raised $1.2 million for the campaign, accounting for approximately 8% of all fundraising revenue........ "To give you an order of magnitude, you're looking at something like 60,000 voters would put you in the top 2 or 3, in all likelihood, in New Hampshire," he said recently at a rally in Boston........ "If we get 60,000 people on board with our message in New Hampshire, then imagine the headlines in February of 2020."



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Friday, September 13, 2019

UBI Blog Post Twitter Marketing

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Robotic Surgery




Singularity might or might not happen, but what will happen along the way is pretty amazing.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Outrunner

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Robotic Compatriots

Official photographic portrait of US President...
Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Next Wave of Factory Robots
Ever since General Motors first put “Unimate” on an assembly line in 1961, most manufacturing robots have worked in isolation, caged off from human workers. Now a new breed of more flexible robot is being developed to work more closely with people.
Human beings were never supposed to be alone. Robots were always supposed to work alongside them.

If robots are cheaper than the cheapest humans, and if they are to work alongside the expensive humans in America, then there is perhaps hope for manufacturing in America. Or so my man Obama thinks.


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