# Automating the Existential Crisis and God Delusion By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2024-12-22 Within the next 10 years, 40% of occupations will likely be eliminated via automation and robots. The technology to deploy these robots already exists. It just so happens that they cost more than the people. Additionally, these robots have suffered from clunky and overly complicated programming interfaces to have them perform tasks. With LLMs acting as a natural language interface and edge computing becoming more cost-effective, it is only a matter of time until these hurdles are overcome. Then, it's just a matter of market economics. Soon, one will walk into most restaurants and never interact with someone working there. Why would you? A robot could easily take the information about your party and direct you to a table. A small computer on the table could verbally take your order, monitor the level of your drink to automatically bring you a refill without you asking, and entertain you with trivia or engaging stories. A simple robot could wheel out your order when it is ready and place it in front of you without ever bumping into you or anything around it. Humanoid robots work tirelessly in the kitchen to prepare your meal to French cuisine standards, as the most outstanding chefs have trained them. This is mostly possible today and will certainly occur within our lifetime. What happens to the millions of people who do this job today? True conservatives are quick to sound the alarm. Progressives point to the history of technological innovation and highlight that new jobs are always created as a result. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle, but this round of technological advancement will bring about yet another round of humans having to redefine their value and value systems. Work was almost always with our hands. Then, knowledge work emerged. Robots and AI will largely take both types of work away from us. What is left? Intention and wisdom. These robots and AI entities do nothing on their own. We must set them in motion. We must be mindful and wise about what we tell these things to do. While it has always been a part of work, we've never existed in a world where so much physical and intellectual shaping power existed without any pushback. If one tells a human to do something, they will likely push back, ask why, and do a subpar job of it. In the future, this pushback and poor execution won't happen. They'll do it perfectly as intended and commanded with zero fucks given. Prepare oneself for a bimodal era of deep existential crisis and overwhelming delusions of being a god. If one looks closely, one will see it has already begun. #### Related Items [[Work]] [[Artificial Intelligence]] [[Robots]] [[Automation]] [[Future]] [[Existential]] [[Delusions]] [[Wisdom]]