Comment by nradov
4 years ago
People keep claiming that automation is coming for most jobs, and yet we still don't have reliable, affordable robots that can do basic tasks like cooking a decent hamburger or stocking store shelves or snaking a plugged toilet. This belief in major automation advances is more like a religion than something grounded in hard science. Sure automation will gradually increase over time but it's going to be a long, slow grind.
A huge amount of automation goes into cooking a decent hamburger, stocking store shelves, and snaking a toilet, mind you.
I'm not sure id consider those basic, either. A toddler couldn't do any of them