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Not a particularly realistic view of automation. Real automation is productivity tooling that turns semi skilled labor into unskilled labor, at vastly fewer hea
by oneoff786 5y ago
Not a particularly realistic view of automation. Real automation is productivity tooling that turns semi skilled labor into unskilled labor, at vastly fewer heads. Most tasks have some last mile task that still requires someone with a pulse to be there.
Like store clerks used to be fairly high skill jobs. If there’s truly no need for lower tier labor we will enter a never before seen economic inflection point, and a race to remove labor costs at every point in the system, because you’ve implicitly suggested we have achieved generally intelligent, physically present ai