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Great read.

This kind of reminds me of auto manufacturing. It's almost unintuitive how difficult, expensive & error prone paneling is. Also painting. Stamping out panels, painting and installing them is a very hard job to do with robotics. Most of the space, treasure and expertise invested into an auto factory is panel related. The "possible, but perpetually difficult" space can be a deep valley for robotics, it seems.

...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction.




> ...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction.

My understanding is that bricklaying is a bottleneck. You can do things before bricklaying, and things after, but not really at the same time.


I think Tesla had a lot off issues when trying to automate as much as possible, possibly trying to push the envelope too much at the beginning.

Last year they've started installing "Giga Presses" - the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world, in order to reduce parts and increase automaton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press#Tesla


lol.. and we're talking about AI replacing humans next year so come get your basic income check.


AI replacing humans as workers will not result in basic income. It will result either eradication of non-ruling classes or humanity itself.


Historically, most people were farmers. That got automated, and yea, I guess the non-ruling classes were eradicated in the sense that we stopped having serfs and slaves and everyone became more powerful, could own land, etc. It was good news, not bad.


Maybe it'll be like that cow that wants to be eaten. Don't count your evil crow chicks before they've hatched.




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