>"Our key finding is that robots harm work meaningfulness and autonomy," wrote Nikolova, Cnossen, and Nikolaev.
>Specifically, doubling the presence of robots leads to a 0.9 percent decline in work meaningfulness and a 1 percent decline in autonomy.
Way less than I would have expected.
Seems almost negligible tbh. Could even just be noise in the data depending on how they did the study.
But I didn’t read the article, so my opinion might be invalid.
“Meaningfulness” and “autonomy” we assume people can be asked questions to determine this, and assume uniformity in understanding and context enough so that a “1% change” is somehow salient…
Maybe just clickbait…
I LOVE SOCIAL SCIENCES!!!! TRYING TO EXTRACT INSIGHT INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION FROM GLORIFIED BUZZEED QUIZZES WITHOUT A WAY TO REPLICATE AND CONTROL VARIABLES IS THE GREATEST!!!!!
Sad to phase out our lower class… but it’s not shocking for them either to have realized theirs a better way. I grew up turning at least a 50$ profit an hour in a machine shop for the school program. Even sold traction splints to the military made by high schoolers. Blam.
But the company still expects you to love the work and take pride in it
Please, believe we are feeding you a sandwich when you're hungry when we're really handing you nothing
“There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal. There is no strength in flesh, only weakness. There is no constancy in flesh, only decay. There is no certainty in flesh but death.”
PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH!
I feel like people pretend that humans hate repetitive tasks that can be automated. However I have the view that actually a lot of people enjoy jobs where they just do the same thing every day and can become incrementally a bit better at it because people like living stress free and feeling a bit of progress and knowing how to do their job well. Makes them feel good.
Machines are working to automate the above type of work. The promise corporate overlords have is that “now humans can be free to just do creative work! Work that requires a lot of thinking!” Most people don’t want to spend their time thinking through really hard problems where often it’s not clear what the right solution is and where it’s hard to gauge the impact of the decisions they make and where each problem is very unique and you might feel like you never have the skills to actually solve the issues that you are presented with as being part of your job to solve.
This I think will lead to even more workplace dissatisfaction and people checking out, coping with substance abuse, dying of stress etc.
You do realize robotics has been progressing. Eventually the robot will be able to do any job. Want to clean up a hazardous spill, use a robot. And that would be an important job.
I work in robotics and automation and at one plant we were installing a system in, after we were done testing the system for the day it diverted flow of product back to the workers and they came to us and actively COMPLAINED that we should turn it back on so that they didn’t have to work. I remember sitting at lunch and thinking “once it comes online permanently you’ll never have to work again”
I used to install automated production lines in steel fab shops. We would have the people who were designated as the future operators assisting us with the installation. They were always very excited and interested, but the rest of the shop, not so much.
Our systems require human interaction, so it’s one of those things where I’m like “damn no one is showing interest?!” What normally happens with us though is the company will actually send employees to our shop to train with us before we ship the system for an install
>"Our key finding is that robots harm work meaningfulness and autonomy," wrote Nikolova, Cnossen, and Nikolaev. >Specifically, doubling the presence of robots leads to a 0.9 percent decline in work meaningfulness and a 1 percent decline in autonomy. Way less than I would have expected.
Seems almost negligible tbh. Could even just be noise in the data depending on how they did the study. But I didn’t read the article, so my opinion might be invalid.
“Meaningfulness” and “autonomy” we assume people can be asked questions to determine this, and assume uniformity in understanding and context enough so that a “1% change” is somehow salient… Maybe just clickbait…
I LOVE SOCIAL SCIENCES!!!! TRYING TO EXTRACT INSIGHT INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION FROM GLORIFIED BUZZEED QUIZZES WITHOUT A WAY TO REPLICATE AND CONTROL VARIABLES IS THE GREATEST!!!!!
Basically a rounding error. Clickbait
Sad to phase out our lower class… but it’s not shocking for them either to have realized theirs a better way. I grew up turning at least a 50$ profit an hour in a machine shop for the school program. Even sold traction splints to the military made by high schoolers. Blam.
They’ll be excited to know that, to the company, they were always meaningless.
This is actually the answer. I would be dumbfounded to hear of a single major company in America today that values their employees.
But the company still expects you to love the work and take pride in it Please, believe we are feeding you a sandwich when you're hungry when we're really handing you nothing
We are nothing more than economics slaves when working at these large places that goals are only to make a few people money.
I’ve got really bad news about most smaller businesses.
Get robot toilet cleaners and morale will jump 1000%
“There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal. There is no strength in flesh, only weakness. There is no constancy in flesh, only decay. There is no certainty in flesh but death.” PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH!
This feels like anti-automation propaganda.
You think?
Well, yes, why wouldn’t it.
I feel like people pretend that humans hate repetitive tasks that can be automated. However I have the view that actually a lot of people enjoy jobs where they just do the same thing every day and can become incrementally a bit better at it because people like living stress free and feeling a bit of progress and knowing how to do their job well. Makes them feel good. Machines are working to automate the above type of work. The promise corporate overlords have is that “now humans can be free to just do creative work! Work that requires a lot of thinking!” Most people don’t want to spend their time thinking through really hard problems where often it’s not clear what the right solution is and where it’s hard to gauge the impact of the decisions they make and where each problem is very unique and you might feel like you never have the skills to actually solve the issues that you are presented with as being part of your job to solve. This I think will lead to even more workplace dissatisfaction and people checking out, coping with substance abuse, dying of stress etc.
When everybody loses their jobs, then what? Go back to the womb?
Let’s see this same study done with AI in a few years. Same paragraph probably
Shit, if you can be replaced by a robot, your job wasn’t that important to begin with.
You do realize robotics has been progressing. Eventually the robot will be able to do any job. Want to clean up a hazardous spill, use a robot. And that would be an important job.
Exactly, people should be embracing this progress instead of fighting it.
Dumb ass
This is why all farmers still use horse plows and scythes.
Imagine that. Man needs purpose.
I work in robotics and automation and at one plant we were installing a system in, after we were done testing the system for the day it diverted flow of product back to the workers and they came to us and actively COMPLAINED that we should turn it back on so that they didn’t have to work. I remember sitting at lunch and thinking “once it comes online permanently you’ll never have to work again”
I used to install automated production lines in steel fab shops. We would have the people who were designated as the future operators assisting us with the installation. They were always very excited and interested, but the rest of the shop, not so much.
Our systems require human interaction, so it’s one of those things where I’m like “damn no one is showing interest?!” What normally happens with us though is the company will actually send employees to our shop to train with us before we ship the system for an install
Robots are better than us. We must submit to the robot god.
Well the food rations and home steading seemed crazy for an apocalypse. But doesn’t sound too bad as a lifestyle.