Comment on Man crushed to death by robot that mistook him for a box of vegetables

• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have no numbers to back me up, so this isn’t going to be a hill I die on, but I feel like even though we produce more than we did in that time frame, we use robots significantly more than we used to, as well, so there are less humans to be harmed.

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  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You didn’t need me to back you up. Looks like you handled it on your own.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t disagree with there, but the safety issues should be improved before scaling up more.

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The first to fall to the robot uprising will be the first honored in Valhalla.

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    • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What safety issues? It’s less than 2 people per year, I guarantee you that way more people are killed in manufacturing due to other reasons.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My dude, more people die from constipation every year in the US than they do from robots. Like, two orders of magnitude more people. Industrial robots are way more common than you think, all this statistic means is that robots are MUCH safer than, say, lathes, hand drills, hammers, god forbid ladders, stubbing your toe…

      What is the point of this? More people starve to death every year because a robot took their job than are directly harmed bybsaid robot.

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• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re right, in a vacuum the death toll would be much higher.

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