[throwaway999888]

I agree. We have a come a long way already, and I would personally prefer that we do our best to not screw up what we already have. That includes global warming, unleashing Strong AI, and so on.

It might suck to actually have to work, even as much as 40 hours a week or more in this day and age and with the productivity increases we've seen. But I don't think work itself is that horrible that I would bet my leisure on some AI that consumes the known Universe making and collecting stamps.

[pgodzin]

Your work may not be that horrible, but I'm sure there are a ton of people with either dangerous or incredibly monotonous jobs that could be automated would disagree with you.

[throwaway999888]

I don't believe that you would need Strong AI to automate away dangerous parts of jobs. Or the monotonous parts.