Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
What is the endgame here? People are supposed to buy these? To do what?
The took the fabric off a mechanical device to reveal it was a mechanical device. Disturbing?
To do what?
Chores and other stuff we don’t/can’t do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many decade+ old encyclopedias with “future tech” chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.
Except regular people will struggle to afford food out whilst these will be cleaning rich people’s yachts.
Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%. There’s probably going to be a point when a suzuki swift (geo metro for americans) equivalent of a robot will come along.
Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%.
That’s exactly what it means. Even a geo metro is a garbage machine destroying the planet that’s completely unaffordable for most of humanity.
I’d buy one if it would help fight off ice agents.
Pretty sure ICE can afford to but thousands/millions of these while we have Alexa speakers.
I read ice giants and thought I’d missed a headline today
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Robots will do everything slaves used to d without pay
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
And what will the “slaves” do? They gonna get their own robot and drive around in flying cars? jfc.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The lower-class will either go chronically online or go get educated and get a non-replaceable job