Marxists and the Automation Fantasy

  1. mel
    mel
    Sometimes I worry that Marxist dreams about the future of production and the abolition of work as we know it will all fall apart due to one, potentially insurmountable, obstacle.

    The problem of AI and automation is one which is of particular interest to me (as a Computer Scientist and Philosopher), and it seems to me that we may find the problems posed by certain necessary tasks simply insurmountably difficult to automate. Things which should, by all marks, be relatively simple tasks to automate prove to be problematic at stages we've never anticipated having problems. What if these dreams of automatons doing the work we don't wish upon ourselves never come true, can the future of socialism withstand such a blow?
  2. ÑóẊîöʼn
    ÑóẊîöʼn
    There are no processes that I know of that cannot be reduced to an algorithm, and I suspect that none exist.
  3. grok
    grok
    First of all: this is not a problem -- because people will WANT to work, regardless. As biological social entities, human beings will not likely give up ALL work -- because useful, interesting work is just that: interesting.

    Second: you don't seem to be grasping the nature of just exactly what the likes of Complexity/Chaos Theory is all about...