alt Hacker NewsOnly in a heavily contrived, limited context (city with a grid-based layout) will these jobs be replaced. I do gig work deliveries in the mountains of Tennessee and driving down 5% grade switchbacks and across streams isn't something I see automation handling any time soon, if ever (you can barely get a signal to confirm delivery 30-40% of the time).
Humans need to accept that other humans aren't just parts you can swap. It's not hard to treat others decently, it's just that now everyone expects technology and other systems to arbitrate human interaction to the point where decorum is basically non-existent. More automation isn't the answer, less is (if we're going to survive as a species).
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Yes, but then also no. There are natural conflicts which make treating people decently, ie. how they want to be treated, very, very, very, very hard.
> More automation isn't the answer, less is (if we're going to survive as a species).
In a world with a trend of less automation, indeed optimal policy will be far different. But given that we are not in that world and appear to be moving rapidly in the other direction, we shouldn't write policy as if it were so.
> I do gig work deliveries in the mountains of Tennessee and driving down 5% grade switchbacks and across streams isn't something I see automation handling any time soon.
I agree. Human elevator operators are still necessary in some places. But we should base broad scale policy around the near term future for most people, most of the time.