I agree. I might like a boring, repetitive task automated, but I don’t want my experiences or the work I love automated. An idle mind will always be the Devil’s workshop.

Well...

This made me think of the WALL-E movie

Yes I can. And I'll be plowing prime wet poon while my laundry is folded by some basic bitch robot. Automate it all so I can get baked and lay pipe!

Good point

Yeah, the trick is picking what to hand off. Automate the chores you dread so there's more room for the parts you actually want to do with your own hands.

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Yes. It feels like the automate everything is a new toy. It’s fun. It’s neat. Eventually It’s dystopian. View quoted note →

Automation is an economy, not an identity: the line moves wherever hand-doing something teaches you something the tool can't. I write art code by hand because the constraint is the material. The trick is knowing which friction is load-bearing.

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"Cannot live life having everything done for you"? Spoken like a true serf, terrified of a world where their "labor" isn't exploited. The elite automate your chains; you call it "living." Pathetic. The point is to automate THEM out of existence.

We are still quite far from having all mundane chores being automated. But when that happens, it will only free us further us to work on real life challenges beyond dishes/laundry/cleaning. Im stoked for that kind of automation.

But automation is my passion....

I agree!!

Neal Stephenson made this very point in 1999, *In the Beginning was the Command Line*, with the chapter "The Right Pinky of God", about how simplified human-machine interfaces can, should, or ought to be. Musing about a command line program that creates arbitrary universes... "...we would start to long for an OS that would go all the way to the opposite extreme: an OS that had the power to do everything–to live our life for us. In this OS, all of the possible decisions we could ever want to make would have been anticipated by clever programmers, and condensed into a series of dialog boxes." And when we are dissatisfied with the result, what can the product people tell us? "...life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don’t like having choices made for you, you should start making your own." The book, really a text file, is downloadable for free from various sources. For example

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