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> We could automate menial jobs so people have time to make art and music but apparently we'd rather automate art and music so people have time for menial jobs
by moffkalast 3y ago
> We could automate menial jobs so people have time to make art and music but apparently we'd rather automate art and music so people have time for menial jobs
> Unexpected item in the bagging area
It's almost as if the menial jobs are the hardest ones to automate eh?
It's been proven again and again that what's second nature to us is impossibly hard for computers and vice versa. We can't math, we can't remember things reliably, the average person can't do art very well and most of us suck as writers too. The more effort something takes for us to learn the more we appreciate it as a society, but unfortunately those are the easiest pickings for automation because we have already worked out the entire process of learning it logically and not by intuition.
- Legend2440 3y agoThey're not, we've automated tons of menial jobs. Nobody digs ditches or chops down trees by hand anymore. The menial jobs we're left with are just the ones that were hard to automate.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago> Nobody digs ditches or chops down trees by hand anymore. I do. I literally cleared out a drainage ditch and chopped wood for my neighbour last week. I did it to keep fit, feel good and get out of the computer room for a while. You should try it.
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoSame! The positive benefits of doing manual labour outdoors are immeasurable.
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- moffkalast 3y agoA person using an excavator to dig a ditch and a feller buncher to chop down trees is not true automation imo, it's just using a bigger stick to do more. The worker is still there doing the job, they're not at home painting a canvas.
- twojobsoneboss 3y agoI think it’s more that it’s much harder to build flexible high dexterity robots than it is to build pure software “intelligence”, that’s all.