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Automation, AI, and the Coming Robot Uprising
from Find Your God (with Dan St. Germain) · #25
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4 minThe group riffs on Ray's mundane resolutions (cleaning his hat), then spirals into a rant about automation and AI eliminating jobs, government pacifying the masses with pills, and predictions of coming unrest and violence against the rich.
- 12:09Tim's New Year's resolution is to stop ruining his shirts with sweat stains and food.
- 12:37Heat ray has the most doable resolutions, like cleaning a hat or scrubbing a part of yourself.
- 13:07White House reported that automation and AI could eliminate 50% of white and blue collar jobs.
- 13:30Tim suggests the government is waiting for robots to replace workers before putting people in FEMA camps.
- 13:51Driverless cars will put truck drivers, cab drivers, and Uber drivers out of work.
- 14:15The rich don't understand that once millions of people are on the street, they'll start dragging people out of Park Avenue and killing them.
- 14:42Wealthy people have been giving everyone Xanax and Prozac for 30 years because they know what's coming.
- 15:01Tim jokes the podcast turned into three lunatics ranting in total agreement within five minutes, abandoning jokes entirely.
- 15:12People should find a god and give themselves to a real movement instead of just posting on Facebook and watching ISIS videos.
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