The Type Of Robot To Make Ethical Automation More Simple And Efficient

In my previous work titled “The Ethical Automation Of Labor”, I discussed how we as a society could simply automate all of the labor that we possibly can, and evenly divide the remaining amount of “human labor” (that only humans can do) among all working people, while still paying full time wages, so that everyone only has to work 1–2 days a week, if that. It’s a pretty simple idea that most people would probably be on board with, and it makes sense. The question is: what type of automation would we want to use? Would we want to build a separate machine for each task (i.e. a machine designed for car repairs, a machine designed for farming, a machine designed for cooking, etc), or could we just build a simple “humanoid robot” that could be programmed to complete a wide variety of different tasks (i.e. “humanoid robot” software that could repair cars, farm, cook, etc), or a combination of the two? I’d say we’d probably be better off to use a combination of the two, but lean more towards the “humanoid robot” side.

There are pros and cons to both options, obviously. The “specialized machine” has the upside of being highly geared towards a specific type of task, and it would obviously be better at performing that specific task than the humanoid robot, but the downside is that it takes a whole bunch of extra time and energy to design and manufacture these “specialized machines”.

Let’s start with an example. Take automated farming for example: you can design “specialize…