[chipsy]

A lot of our inability to automate comes down to not being able to operate at a big enough scope. For example, all commuter transportation problems are ultimately caused by having too many people, too distant from one another. But we can't simply move them closer together for a variety of reasons, and so we have to think about trip planning instead. But we could also reduce the need to make trips and reduce the average length of each trip.

The future is going to be full of complicated thoughts like this - problems to which automation can solve some things but policy and design solves others. We'll have to be really good philosophers to avoid catastrophic error.