Our Servants Will Do That for Us

joebuckwilliams

Hard disagree. Most normal people do not want to see others’ jobs automated unless it provides obvious benefits. Nobody likes self-checkout lines, but they’re “automated.” I like talking to interesting Uber drivers. Pharmacists though? Yeah replace them with face-ID prescription vending machines…

fellowniusmonk

The entire solipsism section rings incredibly false. > Thus when selling we emphasize human qualities like experience, reputation, trust, relationships, etc., and when buying we want cheap, fast, and convenient. False. Just obviously false. > We think of our own work as meaningful, but we think of most everyone else’s work in instrumental terms Also false! Every single line becomes drivel because the "truths" the author states in this section should start with "Some percentage of people", if it remotely wants to make grounded propositions. Who is this absolute misanthrope?

Arodex

Maybe someday people will rediscover Frank Herbert's other universe, the ConScientency, and realize how much forward thinking he was (again) with the idea of the "BuSab".

fwlr

Amusing to read the author saying “if you ask everyone on Earth what jobs they’d like to see automated, and take the union of that, it’s everything”, and then read the HN comments and see a worked example precisely demonstrating it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380336