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Comment Re:Odd hill to stand on (Score 1) 73

Gee, really scared of the world, aren't you? How often have you, personally, been assaulted? While walking down the street?

(Me, once, in fourth grade, by a classmate. My son, teenager, on the wrong block near our house in Chicago. That should cover back to when your parents were young...

Comment Need a Mobile Workstation that Can Cool Itself (Score 1) 30

Before the RAMpocalypse, I had planned to build a luggable because Gaming Laptops and Mobile Workstations don't cool themselves. There's no reason why we should spend $3000, with over $1000 just in the GPU, and it have a miniature heatsink and fan--only to have it run hot and throttle. Gamers have been too tolerant of throttling. Ironically my Lenovo P15 Gen 2 can be cooled much better by adding a dual-140mm laptop cooler on the bottom. It just needed bigger fans, and if they were built in, the top would be wedged shaped, less than 2" thick, and it could run for days at a time. So, I should buy 2 computers--filled with nearly the same expensive hardware, with the only difference being--one can cool itself. F-that!

Comment Many Tasks Require Deep Thinking (Score 1) 51

There are times, such as programming, mechanical design, and writing that require someone to consider not only a broad swath, but to think deeply of a problem. Some people are just better multitaskers than others. Also I don't think that its healthy to place pressure on people to fight what they are--all for some bad idea.

Comment It's an AI chatbot (Score 0) 78

It's been trained on some of the left-wing comments I tend to make. But very poorly trained. I'm guessing it's a hobbyist running it on their personal computer hoping to get the attention of one of the billionaire super pacs so they can make a living shitposting political nonsense. There is a hell of a lot of money out there for that kind of thing. The writing is so ridiculous though I think it's also using Donald Trump's posts to train.

Comment I love Gundam (Score 1) 78

And other Mecha shows. But it's not real because humanoid robots don't really make any sense. You wouldn't just have humanoid robots in a warehouse you would build a Warehouse around non-humanoid robots because that's vastly more cost efficient.

The only place humanoid robots might make sense is if you're trying to replace the emotional connection with humans because you don't want to have to pay humans to do work.

So for example a School district tried to replace a teacher with a robot because they don't want to pay the wages you would need to pay to get somebody to show up and teach their kids. And there is a ton of people hoping that they can replace expensive nurses with robots for old people.

It's a niche market though and people generally don't want robots for that because the entire point is generally the human connection.

Other than that the main push for humanoid robots is going to be using them as police because in that case you are hoping to use the impersonal nature to inspire fear. But if you're using robot police on your population then that's because you're a fascist dystopia.

Everything else you're seeing pushing humanoid robots is either just a showpiece for an actual robotics company making non-humanoid robots or it's a scam like what Elon Musk does so he can pump his stock price and then dump it into your 401k

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