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Excellent! Humans can then spend their time on other activities, rather than get bogged down in the mundane.


Other activites such as the sublime pursuit of truth and beauty . . . aka mathematics ;-)


Not going to happen as long as the society we live in has this big of a hard on for capitalism and working yourself to the bone is seen as a virtue. Every time there’s a productivity boost, the newly gained free time is immediately consumed by more work. It’s a sick version of Parkinson’s law where work is infinite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law




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