I'd be terrified if that thing showed up at my door.

Technological unemployment is only going to get worse without a plan to support the people being replaced by automation. They can't just 'get another job'. As long as the benefits of this stuff only goes to shareholders, it can fuck off.

Amazon sent my next door neighbour a photograph of my back garden indicating they delivered the package. In the photo you can see my door with the obviously wrong house number.

Happens, I'd bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor's package and accidentally grabbed yours. It's easy to make a mistake here and there when you're delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.

I imagine they will scale back robot design and just throw from the truck.

That is still better for both the environment and safety than everyone going to the store seperately in their own car. (Transit or walking of course are still better yet).

There is always going to be jobs. Else, there is nobody who's buying products from Amazon. It's a self-regulating system. New jobs will be created when old ones die out. Just think of the millions of workers doing manual sewing that got replaced by mechanical sewing machines. Or all the farmers and oxes that got replaced by tractors.

It's called structural change. And I don't see why it's a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.

Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind's future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.

If i see a humanoid robot delivering a package i will throw bricks at it and then pee on it, in the way a 3 year old would during a tantrum.

Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot'ed

a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped "beyond repair" and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.

Also, like... if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.

Otherwise, riots would be justified.

It's called structural change. And I don't see why it's a bad thing. We would still be plowing our fields with ox and cart if we had denied every technological unemployment in the past.

Delivery jobs are the most ungrateful and exhausting low-paying jobs. And you want humans to keep doing them for the rest of mankind's future? Pretty grim future in my opinion.

The solution is UBI

It's not that we don't want robots doing it - honestly that'd be pretty cool. It's that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

What you just described is humans causing the issue, drone delivery would absolutely solve your problem.

I imagine a post-scarcity world where all basic needs are met for everyone on the planet without question, and with minimal need for human labour, and that more as technical overseers. People would be free to work as much or as little as they want at whatever they want for their own betterment, or the betterment of the world, or do nothing at all if they want, or whatever. Is that too much to ask?

Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot'ed

a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped "beyond repair" and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.

Also, like... if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.

Otherwise, riots would be justified.

No. I don't want them to starve when they get replaced by robots, which is the current plan, apparently.