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Yup, in a theoretical, say, socialist utopia where nobody has to work, most of the work would need to be automated. Anything where people need to work less demands automation to replace what currently needs to be done by humans. Automation does cause problems, both temporary ones by taking people's jobs, and more long-term ones when replacing the jobs people want to do, but it seems like an inevitable and necessary step into the future.
Yup, but a lot of those problems are problems with capitalism not the actual automation. Like it should take work away from us, but that shouldn't mean we suffer
I do suspect suffering might be unavoidable in a transition period, it feels inevitable that as less work is necessary society will take time to adapt to the situation. It's not that it's impossible to adapt in time as the situation changes, but it seems implausible to actually implement that, and I feel like we should be accounting for it when discussing implementing automation.
In that context, I feel that automation and innovation are inevitable, and fighting them feels foolish (like by forcing coal mines and coal power plants to continue running), and we need to focus on improving peoples' lives if they're negatively affected.
I will also note that I'm negative towards GenAI, considering it unethical and (relatively) impractical. Though I'm also biased since my profession is affected :P
Yup, fighting that feels like fighting clean power or digitalization or a number of other advancements. But a lot of those weren't well adapted to by many societies (US especially), and automation (which has been around for many decades now) has been pretty well adopted and poor adapted. Tech moving much faster than society