The last message Stephen Hawking posted to a public internet forum was an answer to a question in a Reddit AMA, querying how humanity will weather an age of technological unemployment.
Professor Hawking's answer said that there was no problem with robots taking jobs – only with the dividends from that robotic efficiency accruing solely to the capital classes thanks to market dynamics, rather than being broadly shared through redistributive state intervention.
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality
I'm not going to distribute any of my wealth to negroes
Luke Garcia
Steven Hawking dies after speaking out against capitalism. How ironic.
Xavier King
Funny that the only reason he lived long enough to speak out about capitalism was because he lived in a capitalistic society. Great at physics, not so much at economics.
Anthony Bell
Thanks Mr. Hollywood actor for your wise words
Alexander Morgan
So we distributes all this incredible wealth to everyone and retards, epileptics, psychopaths (ie a large percent of the white race and pretty much 99.9% of the other races will breed like rats in a race, a rat race to see who can bang out the most kids until there's 50 billion people on the planet.
Don't believe me?
Talk to a real beaner from Mexico, a construction worker or talk to a Filipino janitor in a hospital.
They'll be only to glad to tell you that they're the progenitors of a new magnificent dynasty that is springing from their loins even as we speak. Their entire mind, their entire imagination is consumed with this demented vision which would be comical if it weren't so fucking gawd awful.
No really I don't see the solution to the problem. Even National Socialism…I can just imagine the triump of National Socialism 150 years from now…hordes of Sikhs sporting swastikas living in endless rows of monster houses with big 6 wheeled Ford 250's in the driveway..
No, short of some incredible plague that will wipe the slate almost clean we are doomed to turn this planet into hell.
Christian Carter
He was annoying wasn't he?
I bet he smelled of raw shit.
Josiah Butler
Noggin' is a joggin'.
Isaac Lewis
The problem isn't capitalism. The problem is inferior races fucking it up with their commie tribalistic faggotry.
Ethan Mitchell
If you're in the transportation industry, get out now. Driverless taxis and semis will be the new norm within a few years and you just can't compete with that. It's true that most of us will eventually lose our jobs as AI improves, but you will lose yours relatively soon.
Nathaniel Turner
I'm not into politics at all. Can someone tell me how it's a negative to share all the stuff built by robots once everything is done by robots, even repair of robots. It doesn't sound like he meant taking things from you and giving them to someone else.
Cameron Ramirez
Stop identifying with massive corporations. It isn't your wealth getting redistributed. Besides if your problem is niggers lets kill all of the niggers AND redistribute the corporations wealth to ourselves!
Ian Martinez
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Cooper Roberts
This, Capitalism just like communism breaks people into meaning nothing except achieving a quota
Benjamin James
Russian bot creating contention no matter what
Kevin Morris
A man who works on nothing, owns nothing. Your money will from universal basic income and you will be enslaved to the state with their robotic armies.
Oliver Collins
DO YOU HAVE A DEEGREE IN ECONOMICS?!!?!! I DID NOT THINK SO, FUCKING SHIT WHEELS. Fucking chairtard thinks we're at the point where robots can do everything for us. Fucking the economy at this point isn't going to do shit, it's not like we have machines that design machines and fix machines with machines at every single facility in America. Fuck we still need humans to fix cars ffs. He wants everyone to live in a world where we sit in a chair and everything is done for us.
Dylan Mitchell
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Your argument is against black nationalism. And that ideology is deader than the white version.
Robots absolutely are the problem,they have been manufactured to replace the jobs of the working classes ever since the first auto machines started to appear and wages and quality of life for the masses has gone down.
where is the 3d print operator jobs or the grand organisation of voluntary work or sporting endeavours to make use of the free time we gained?
Robert Peterson
Any sustainable system would require the citizens to have self-control and consume responsibly. This is not going to happen. Not in capitalism, and definitely not in a wealth-redistributed robot utopia. The latter would only hasten our demise.
Zachary Richardson
Who do you think employs most of the people you know? Who do you think produces most of the products you use? Who do you think invests billions of dollars into R&D for innovation? Oh that’s right, massive corporations.
Lucas Wright
he was allucinating already, I see. But maybe theoretical physicists offer theoretical alternatives. When did redistributive state intervention not result in corruption in the short to medium run?
Adrian Taylor
Half of my net worth is in S&P500 you fucking nigger. If you want a piece of the cake, then how about you fucking pay for it like I did?
Carson Brown
Wealth is a tool. I have a toolbox, I don't expect the fucking thing to build me a car. If you're not using that capital you're just making someone else rich.
Noah Hughes
When I go to Hell I'll kick him out his fucking wheelchair. He went full retard for the Left within the last 5 years of his life
Jason Perez
What, like they already do in the west? Did he not see how many fat, drooling retards there are walking about? The one thing we don't need is yet more disposable income falling into the hands of the great unwashed. Less still do we need the retards being handed yet more bennies to breed and breed and breed some more. The moral imperative is to greatly reduce the numbers of Nietzschean last men. The great struggle of the coming years will be tackling our moral qualms about treating humanity as an organism to be improved, and enacting eugenic policies.
James Johnson
What the hell are you even talking about? I OWN a small piece of 500 largest publicly traded companies in the US. I am absolutely, positively entitled to my fair share of the dividends.
Adrian Scott
No, communism is the problem. Stephen Hawkings may have been a good computer programmer but he makes one damn awful economist.
Julian Howard
Yeah, but nobody cares about Stephen Hawking, because he was so stupid that he never learned how to walk or talk.
more of your 'communism this', 'communism that' bullshit……….
good dammit
Jonathan Hill
OMG here we go again, huh?
more of your 'capitalism this',
'capitalism that' bullshit……….
god dammit
Julian Martin
HOW TO TURN GIRLS OFF:
use the words 'national socialism'
Jace Green
OMG here we go again, huh?
more of your 'socialism this', 'socialism that' bullshit……….
god dammit
…I suppose you plan on doing this all day, huh?….
(you should find a hobby)
Julian Wood
TRUST ME :
if you guys had girlfriends, you wouldn't have any time to sit around boring the shit out of people with your political opinions.
And not so coincidentally, if you didn't sit around boring the shit out of people with your political opinions, you might actually get a girlfriend….
See how that works?
Jayden Cook
I happen to be lucy. I'm retired and my wife died. Don't want no stinking old woman living with and nagging me either. So whats your excuse?
Alexander Foster
The Mighty Stephen Hawkins is a Fucking Quake Master
Brody Williams
The world already is a paradise, provided YOU are a person that matters. Hamburgers are delicious, I love access to cheap tasty burgers, but of course, to the cow this is not a paradise. For the wealthiest members of society, healthcare is affordable, food and housing is cheap, security enforces law, and of course, labor is cheap and easy to get. Plebs are born and indoctrinated by tv to be fucking tools. It's all working exactly as intended. If people are not cattle waiting to be exploited then maybe they should stop behaving like stupid cattle?
Luis Clark
lol @ you getting colon cancer & diverticulitis eventually
Jack Collins
So, 'lucy' means homosexual ?
Matthew Lopez
(you probably bored her to death with your political opinions)
Nathaniel Mitchell
This left-leaning attitude was unusual for the weirdo
Nah, she didn't care what my political opinions were, she didn't get into any of that. Never voted. Died of cancer due to extremely bad diet (which I tried to warn her of, but she was too stubborn to listen, "gotta have my diet coke!") so whatever.
Jaxon Rivera
THREE QUESTIONS:
1: who gives a fuck?
2: why doesn't anybody ever focus on how Hawking urinated or defecated?
3: fuck yourself
(okay, so it was two questions)
Levi Ortiz
I really don't care to know the second. Nor do I care about this cripple either.
We have lost one of the greatest minds humanity has ever known.
And while that truth cannot be ignored, we should also temper it with the reality of all the great man accomplished. Given two years to live in 1963 he spent the next five and a half decades revolutionizing astrophysics, bringing a love of science to the masses, and living a full and rewarding life.
It is the greatest honor in my life that I was given the opportunity to meet and perform for Professor Hawking. Through trials and hardships I cannot imagine he managed to nourish an impish sense of humor and a perpetual love of life.
I cannot claim to have known him well, but in as much as I knew him at all I think I can fairly say that he would not want us to be sad at this time. So, while we should mourn his passing, we must also celebrate his life. A remarkable life that defied all odds and meant so much to so many.
Not exactly. We might call that left today, but in a world where we end up gold plating automation, even down to service industry, what's left for humans to do? It's applying political motive to a simple observation.
Carter Cooper
Hi my name is Stephen and I recognize the universe in each and everyone of you, Have you ever though about how a vinyl record is like a star system? on the outside it seems set and constant but if a large dense mass like a black hole or a 1987 Ford Econoline moves though the solo systems vinyl record it might be changed forever. Ask you your best questions, I was Newton chair and my DJ friend just flew me here to this show. I paid for the ticket in cash. yours Stephen
we need birth control and abortion. then all scarcity problems are resolved.
Ryder Roberts
Spotted the yid
Robert Nelson
That's what the robots who hacked his Speak n Say said.
Jace Myers
Well, if I buy cheap shitty burgers and then can't get real medical treatment because all I have is social security because I actually bought the joke that socialism and government work for the average citizen, then yes, pls lol @ my cancer ridden ass. This is basically a description of the boomer lifestyle; boomers are the perfect slave/cattle race. I feel like the point I was trying to make has been lost….
Connor Fisher
thanks
for
asking
….and YES, 'aint we lucky we got 'em?'…..
Samuel Lopez
For some reason, don't ask me why, ive been intentionally driving my wife crazy for the past four days, singing the GOOD TIMES Theme Song, and whenever I get to the 3rd line, (Temporary Layoffs) I just keep repeating it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
In the future there will a few with massive concentrated global wealth and everyone else their slaves either directly or indirectly…kind of how it's now but even more concentrated. I don't feel optimistic about the future. I will not bring descendants into this world so they'll end up slaves one day. Fuck humanity.
Mason Mitchell
i've definitely read these comments before. LARPing in here
Blake Peterson
Amazing how someone so intelligent in some fields could be so unbelievably cucked in others, isn't it?
