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Billionaire Jack Ma, long an outspoken advocate for China's extreme work culture, says that people should be able to work just 12 hours a week with the benefits of artificial intelligence.
People could work as little as three days a week, four hours a day with the help of technology advances and a reform in education systems, the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai Thursday. He spoke on-stage with Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. who is building manufacturing facilities in the city.
[...] Just this year, Ma endorsed the China tech sector's infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine, so common it earned the moniker 996. In one blog post, China's richest man this year dismissed people who expect a typical eight-hour office lifestyle, defying a growing popular backlash.
"I don't worry about jobs," Ma said on Thursday, making an optimistic case that AI will help humans rather than just eliminate their work. "Computers only have chips, men have the heart. It's the heart where the wisdom comes from."
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(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday October 14 2019, @04:51PM (1 child)
Wait, so the guy who thinks the cpu and internet have provided *no reason whatsoever* for shorter work days, thinks that *the next* advance is going to be the one that makes it happen. The skynet one. Superintelligent computers made by superintelligent sociopathic plutocrats is going to find a way to straighten this all out.
ffs take this rich tyrant's money already, it is either making him completely blind or he is a psychopath getting off on the lucy/charliebrown football trick on an epic scale.
And tell him I said that. I want to hear his response. I know the chinese are listening, they send people to take pictures of me at the train station when I post here about what confuscious might say about their organ harvesting and other genocidal operations. I never thought anyone would make nazis look a little less monstrous, but the Xi the Pooh and his elite cult of aristorcratic pretend-communist pseudo-mystics have accomplished it quite nicely.
Their shameful place in the history books is secured, to the extent they are not the only ones left to write them, which we have at least some reason to expect is their actual long game.
Which they likely have in common with other sad fanatical cults bent on reclaiming former glory by any diabolic means necessary.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 14 2019, @11:21PM
Well, there's a slight problem with that [wikipedia.org]: you'll need to ask the paramount leader [wikipedia.org] Xi for permission first, he has dibs when he decides it needs to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0