Sure, here's a direct answer:

Even after the mechanical loom was created, figuring out the next most important problem to work on was a job that humans did.

Unless you believe there's some hard limit on AI intelligence that will constrain it below the intelligence of a particular earthbound hairless ape, then eventually AI will be perfectly sufficient and probably better at figuring out the next most important problem to work on.

Ta-da, humans are completely removed from the value chain. Neither the loom nor the tractor could not do such a thing.

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tengbretson 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That assumes that a value-judgement can be optimally made with intelligence alone.

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estearum 6 hours ago | parent [-]

In every sense that economically matters (i.e. in every sense that will actually attract the resources required to realize such a determination), it can be.

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LocalH 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The problem is that the economic matters are not the only relevant issues, and I would argue they're not the most important ones either

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estearum 5 hours ago | parent [-]

When it comes to what actually gets encoded into reality, it certainly is the most salient factor

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LocalH 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That truly does speak to the problems we have in modern society.

The biggest issue we face today is the incessant nature of economists to try to reshape reality to match economic theory, and not the other way around

	▲	estearum 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think this is a problem with economists. It's a problem with incentives and the systems we use to balance those incentives. You have it totally backwards lol. You can remove the economists or even the word "economy" and nothing would change about actual reality.