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treistoday at 5:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

>The construction worker it replaces isn't going to start managing a team of robots construction robots

Some of them will. You've slashed construction labor cost to 5% of what it was before. With that and a similar reduction throughout the supply chain means we're going to start building a lot more stuff.


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galactushonortoday at 7:05 PM

For which poor unemployed people who just got laid off due to AI are the Robots building house for? More abstractly, for whom are we creating are these productivity miracles and surplus for. Does a rich person suddenly need a million iPhones for himself and himself alone?

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rglullistoday at 5:21 PM

Labor costs are not the limiting factor on production.

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