Automating labor is not going to move billions of tonnes of earth required to mine increasingly degraded ore grades of critical industrial minerals.
People need to stop with this 'abundance' gaslighting.
Without breakthroughs in material science, there will be no 'abundance'. Just mass resource inflation as people start consuming more because robots can manufacture anywhere.
AI based automation is surfacing the real bottlenecks that there is no getting around.
Stop pretending this will all be magically solved.
It won't be solved until it's solved. And so far, despite all these trillions being invested, we haven't seen any breakthroughs.
Hopium is not a solution.
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