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i am more of the view that it's impossible for LLMs to be used for automation myself

automation is: a machine does a series of steps when you press a button. if you press the button and the steps don't get done correctly that means the machine is broken and you fix it if the outcome of pressing the button is always "something different will happen than last time", not automation

also very often it is in fact virtuous to do tasks instead of having them automated for you. automating things can be virtuous, doing things manually can be virtuous, in general automation is the more potentially destructive thing

it's better to automate something you were tired of doing manually than to never have had to do it at all. everything is part of a process, one must be careful what one misses out on

Just because a machine can break that doesn’t mean the machine isn’t working up until it breaks AI bad, sure, but this is a pretty bizarre way to try to define automation as a way to “other” AI. Seems a lot more straightforward to just say that AI is bad because it hurts people and the planet