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Incompleteness in job markets will always exist

Replacing human labor does not equate to replacing humans. I’m arguing that humans will always need other humans. And for that reason, there’s always need for human work. This is sort of “Gödel’s incompleteness theorem”; that new innovations always yield new work tasks, job positions, and stuff for people to do. I’m basing this on historical precedence: during industrialization (starting…

Automatic Analytics: Considerations for Building User-Oriented Data Analytics Systems

This is an unpublished exploratory study we wrote with Professor Jim Jansen for Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS2018), held in Doha, Qatar. Change of landscape: For a long time, automation has been invading the field of marketing. Examples of marketing automation include the various scripts, rules, and software solutions that optimize pay-per-click spending, machine learning techniques utilized in…

Why human services are needed for world peace

The bot can be boss, as long as we have jobs. Why are human services the future of our economy? (And, therefore, an absolute requirement for world peace [1].) For three reasons: They do not pollute or waste material resources (or tend to do so with significantly less degree than material consumption) Exponential growth of population absolutely requires more human labor…