ASIMOV SAVE US (Automation & the Economy)

[Qalbert]

that acronym is some serious bullshit

[Stromgarde]

I've been on projects where acronym names have been picked out of a hat and then words picked for each letter as best they could.

[tyven]

I've been on projects where acronym names have been picked out of a hat and then words picked for each letter as best they could.

so what you're saying is you worked for the government

[Qalbert]

yeah but you could bullshit a better name than that
clever robotic organic processing system, or something that doesn't literally have the word crops in it

[Melena]

So sad that this hasn't been posted yet in reply.

[Cantih]

Just a rehash, nothing new.
But done by someone far better than me.

[archibaldcrane]

Have fun getting your jobs replaced while I'm editing reality shows suckas

/snowflakemodeengaged

/idiocracyiscoming

[BaneTheBrawler]

actually, as formulaic as reality TV is, i wouldn't be surprised if someone wrote some software to edit it automatically.

[quannum]

In the future Whoopie Goldberg is the only person with a job
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/qui...38_335_300.jpg

[archibaldcrane]

actually, as formulaic as reality TV is, i wouldn't be surprised if someone wrote some software to edit it automatically.

lol

[Cantih]

Well if you did something like Big Brother, with a moderately sized beta audience that has access to feeds from all the cameras and streamed through a web app.
It might be possible to have software put together a wide audience packaged episode by using the beta view metrics as a guide.
As tech improves, you could even have the dialog made computer readable with reliable ASR (whoops, there goes closed-caption workers too), and then use a Watson to identify relevant related scenes that are lead up things the beta viewers were keying in on but maybe didn't get as many views.

[Niiro]

Have a program to detect skin exposure and voice volume from video footage and splice together together any segments of video that contain a sufficient amount of either above a certain threshold.

It would have trouble detecting black cast members, but so do television producers, so it's a minor issue.

[quannum]

lol

reality tv show editing is just filtering input based on easy to learn/recognize rules.

[archibaldcrane]

lol

[ronin sparthos]

There's a special place in hell for Archi somewhere between Basketball Wives and Swamp Murders.

[BaneTheBrawler]

gonna go with "archi was being sarcastic" but since this is text and we can't tell FUCK YOU ARCHI. THEYRE GONNA WRITE SARCASM SOFTWARE TOO AND THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE

[CoreyX]

It's funny but you can see the effects of automation in FFXI's mini-world economy. Bots have gotten more and more advanced that they can do all the tedious farming, fishing, NPCing, Sparking, Cruoring, Reiving, whatever is profitable at the time, including multi-box bots for things like delve, essentially taking "jobs" per say away from people trying to do it the legit way, who would once slave away for hours every day to earn their scorpion harness, because small amounts of gil one character can make doing these things legitimately pales in comparison to everyone's bots doing it 24/7 (akin to corporations) and massively increasing the inflation so people remain "unemployed" and poor (in relative FFXI terms) while the rich botters stay rich and get richer, being able to further monopolize anything they want without worrying about the rest of the casual legit population. If FFXI had some weird system where you had to pay for your character's basic survival needs on a monthly basis with gil or they would "die" and be deleted from the server, you can bet people would be dying left and right without SE giving out gil welfare

[kuronosan]

It's funny but you can see the effects of automation in FFXI's mini-world economy. Bots have gotten more and more advanced that they can do all the tedious farming, fishing, NPCing, Sparking, Cruoring, Reiving, whatever is profitable at the time, including multi-box bots for things like delve, essentially taking "jobs" per say away from people trying to do it the legit way, who would once slave away for hours every day to earn their scorpion harness, because small amounts of gil one character can make doing these things legitimately pales in comparison to everyone's bots doing it 24/7 (akin to corporations) and massively increasing the inflation so people remain "unemployed" and poor (in relative FFXI terms) while the rich botters stay rich and get richer, being able to further monopolize anything they want without worrying about the rest of the casual legit population. If FFXI had some weird system where you had to pay for your character's basic survival needs on a monthly basis with gil or they would "die" and be deleted from the server, you can bet people would be dying left and right without SE giving out gil welfare

Get help.

[archibaldcrane]

gonna go with "archi was being sarcastic" but since this is text and we can't tell FUCK YOU ARCHI. THEYRE GONNA WRITE SARCASM SOFTWARE TOO AND THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE

A program that turns a hundred hours of often chaotic footage into an airable tv show? No, just no.

[Niiro]

Considering what passes for television nowadays....