What prevents a robot from turning a wrench and pulling out the old BEV battery and installing a new one?
Why couldn't a robot install HVAC ducting the same way TBMs build tunnels?
Roto-rooter could be replaced by little robots that crawl the sewer and slither into the sewer drain and chop up the tree roots.

https://underthehardhat.org/ai...

Correction: for now, we have Antarctica... in a couple years, not so sure.

Only 98%?
Easy, we don't. We starve and die.

Which brings up the big question: with AI running the factories and cranking out metric boatloads of new iPhones or MacBooks... who's going to buy them?

Hehe... that's rsilvergun posting as their AC alter-ego... they claim it's a troll stalking them.
What troll has an index of every post a person has made?

Had to look that up.
I don't see what bible verses have to do with rallying tech workers against AI.

Exactly.

Although, it'd sure be nice if buying GTA6 came with a physical copy of the game that could be played offline for as long as the disc I bought worked.
I'd settle for downloading the game as a file I can burn to a disc or two.

And, that's what's at issue, here.
You click But It Now or purchase the game/software at a store... are you, in fact, long-term renting the game for $85 or are you buying a copy of the game? If you are buying a copy of the game, do you not have an expectation that you can play that game or use that software next year or the year after that?

And, this doesn't even get into making a copy for your own private use in case the bought disc gets scratched or eaten by the dog.

So, the disc copy of Myst on my shelf (and, I do own the shelf) isn't my copy of the game?
Bet it'd be infuriating to blow the money to buy GTAV, get it home, and find that they shut down the activation and download server, wouldn't it.

But, that PS2 disc will just work, even after Sony goes bankrupt and their servers are sold for scrap and we had to shut the internet down to stop AI.

Sure, the disc-copy of Windows I bought is mostly just the license, but the disc still works even after they shut the activation server down.

Say: I go to the store (whatever store it is), and buy GTA6 for $80 or whatever it'll cost (haven't bought a new game since Diablo II expansion was new).
The difference is I buy it (as in, the way we used to buy games, where that physical copy just worked, and once they got to the online activation thing, there was typically a way to activate it off-line) to what we have today (I "buy the game for the physical copy price, but am in fact _renting_ it long-term until such time the company deems the game 'old enough' and flips the switch).

If I'm not buying a copy of the game to use for as long as the disc still works (even if it has to be multiple discs), then I am in fact, not _buying_ it... I am merely renting it long term, and when I pay money for it, that should be stated plainly and clearly (and, I don't want an $80 empty jewel case... couldn't I just take a slip of paper to the register and fill out a thing at the register (to get the activation code on the receipt or maybe have the receipt contain a code you enter on the website and they send you a letter with the activation code _(and, either one includes the preset game deactivation/shut down date)_.

Did your purchasing a copy of Myst give you _only_ a license to play only a copy that works until Broderbund and/or Cyan says that license key only works for 1.5 years _or_ when they decide it won't work anymore?
No, it didn't. You had the physical disc, and a license key (I know Diablo II worked like follows): you install the game from disc(s) (either after inputting your key, or you'd have to input the key when loading the game for the first time); and even if you didn't have internet, the game would verify the key offline and work just fine.

When I buy a copy of GTA7 or whatever, I expect a disc that lets me install the game and play it, and when the harddrive fails I can replace the drive and reinstall from the disc and keep playing.

That's the issue... ownership is owning a copy of the game VS a license to use it until some determined time. This is like a longer-term FlexPlay business model.
If you're gonna shut the server down in two years, maybe the game shouldn't cost $100, and what do you need an empty DVD case for?

And, what if you don't have the $$$ in your account... overdraft? Bounced payment? Now you're really screwed.

And, that is why you never enable auto-payments... because you hand over the control.

Not to mention that not everyone qualifies or will make it through even basic training.

But, if you make it a dischargeable debt, you might as well just print pallets more money with nothing to back it... oh, wait... the US has been doing that for decades, hasn't it?
Carry on, nothing new here.

You can only cram so many students into AI Programming 101, though... and, once everyone has a degree in that program, then might as well be nobody has a degree in anything because there won't be 300 million jobs in AI Programming (or whatever will be left for jobs once the AI dust settles).

That's the truth... had that exact thing happen at Electrolux (regarding how you gained attendance points back).