The problem is that your roadmap requires things that don't exist yet or only exist at prohibitive prices, and it's not knowable how much time or money you will need to solve either one. So a concrete roadmap is impossible.

Advanced robotics would need to become quite cheap for them to become more affordable and convenient than a minimum-wage employee. And physical fields like materials engineering are known for moving quite slowly and at their own pace, so I'm not sure how much automation could help there.

That's the last barrier we have right now that prevents the total obsolescence (and therefore destruction) of the common worker.

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jrowen an hour ago | parent [-]

Our starting assumption was "Imagine I give you for free the perfect trash picking robot control AI software." If AI can deliver that, why can't it figure out how to take a Boston Dynamics dog, design it for trash picking, and optimize manufacturing costs?

	▲	robotresearcher an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Two different answers: 1. The discussion setup where you imagine a counterfactual is given by magic does not entail that magic can do any other thing you choose. “Imagine I give you $100, what do you spend it on?” “A McClaren, since you could have given me $300K” 2. Taking your question directly: because these are not closely related problems.