Robots 'could replace 250,000 UK public sector workers'

Because placebos don't prescribe themselves.

No, but you don't need any of that to prescribe placebos.

Come on nulli it's not that hard to get your head round, you've identified that placebos are underutilized, that we don't compare like with like but then you've got hung up on homeopathy, why are you still not comparing like with like? We can do placebos better and cheaper than homeopathy, so again i ask you, why are you so keen on homeopathy?

Although there is some evidence placebos work even when people know they are placebos, the full placebo effect arises from the charade that they are receiving treatment and that requires doctors (I don't think the BMA would stand for pretend doctors giving out pretend medicine). Likewise the successes of homeopathy are not due to the contents of the little phials of water but to the effect of the processes by which they are prescribed and created on the mind of the patient. If there was news that one of the big homeopathy suppliers had produced defective products you would have a genuine health crisis to deal with

that's like saying home computers shouldn't have been invented, to maintain the typewriter industry.

Predictions about machines taking over all the jobs have been around since like, the Ravelling Nancy. I don't see any need to slow the creation of automation just to save jobs; that's like saying home computers shouldn't have been invented, to maintain the typewriter industry.

I admire the Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company, one of China's largest manufacturers of manual typewriters. They make machines for a range of European language markets. They were set up in 2004. Yes, that is right. In 2004 someone thought that the future of written communication was the manual typewriter and decided to set up a business making them.

Yes.

But what will the 250k unemployed do?

Be unemployed


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That's fantastic!

**** dude how do you know this stuff?

Who the hell buys them though?

It's going to happen anyway to the majority of the population over the coming decades.

It could be fantastic, it could also be hell.

It's what we make of it


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I think if we collectively don't do something, it will be hell. But not in our lifetime, but maybe in our kids' it will start.

depends on global tax cooperation

I saw an amazing Horizon programme about placebo that showed that simply authoritatively telling people they are going to get better has a big effect, which is increased still further if they are given some pills and still more if something hi-tech looking is done, like a test and waving a gadget over them.

I think it depends on a lot more than just that.

Same thing happened to farming a hundred years ago. Then, nearly half the working population had to work on the land to produce enough food for the population. Now, its less than 5% because machines have replaced humans and animals and modern crops are much more productive and needs far fewer people to work it.

But we don't have millions of unemployed farmers because new industries and work have sprung up. Jobs that were unknown just a few years ago have become common place like digital media producers and fung shui practioners. Ex office workers will find new jobs.

It really isn't, if everyone taxes everything at the same rate there is no avoidance and universal income becomes a reality at the rate of pay to be very comfortable.


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