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Not all of the humans will lose the ability to think.

Some will, however, think of how to do evil.

Right now we are destroying the biosphere so some men can live lives in excess of kings.

AI is probably best seen as part of that trend, because it is magnifying it.

The humans who can think are oppressing the ones that don't, keeping them from learning to think and solving these problems.

Whether they do that with AI or not only changes how rapidly it happens, and how rapidly the climate runs away to the point that it destroys all modern civilizations.

It probably won't make humans extinct... but it will make all prior mishaps for humanity look like a sunday picnic.

The question is, what happens when you try to maintain it? Is it even feasible or do you just have to do the job over again? And can the world sustain every job being done over and over again with AI?

So your plan is to solve this problem within 40 years?

That's not a thing. A part that cheap that becomes a sticking point will be reverse engineered and reproduced... By the Chinese in fact. It will show up on AliExpress with all the thousands of other parts like that

I would hope that any AI would be on-device. I think anything else would be a show-stopper.

When you figure out how to get to the logical world, please LMK

The problem is, they are all scumbags.

"even if they do require it there's almost never any requirement that the installers **NOT** change it back to the default"

Ok, but we already knew these guys were incompetent at security...

No, I'm not an apple cuck.

Apple supports Trump all day. If you support Apple, so do you. But I don't, because I'm against child rape.

Oh look, you're either Nazis or ignorant how much willful support the NYT gave literal, actual Nazis

I mean, if it is lasers, the cat might chase it, and use up all nine immediately.

It's a trivial task that wastes one to two hours per person per month. For a four-person household, that's the better part of an entire person-day wasted every month. So it might be trivial, but that doesn't mean people want to do it.

No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.

That said, there's one very critical design consideration that Apple may not be thinking about, but that will make or break this as a product: upgradability. No one will tolerate throwing away a hundred pounds of e-waste to get the latest version every three years. People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy. This means a modular design, both at a hardware and software level:

• All of the parts should standardize on CANBus for control purposes and something faster like 10-gigabit multimode fiber for video delivery.
• The central core should be a large open space with adequate fans to ensure decades of upgrades.
• The central core should contain a computer in a box that has its own fans to vent into the larger enclosure, and any network switching if necessary should be a separate unit with separate fans. These should be user-replaceable if future design changes require updates.
• Cables should snake through conduit for easy replacement of large components like arms or head.
• Physical connection points (e.g. arm attachment) should be standardized up front and never changed.
• Upgrade units should include: battery (individually, external, quick swappable), cameras (individually), hands (individually), arms (separate from hands), legs (individually), head module (separate from cameras mounted on it), brain, network switch.
• Each of these individually upgradable units should be easy to detach and reattach with a minimum number of screws and zero small connectors or thin cables.
• To the maximum extent possible, each of these pieces should be easy to take apart for component-level repair.

And so on. The software should be designed under the assumption that new software versions should be compatible with older brain units to the maximum extent possible, for as long as possible (minimum 10 years), and that nothing more than a brain transplant should be required for backwards compatibility forever, so long as you are not using new features that require new versions of components (e.g. you might need an upgraded camera module for the eyes for some future feature, but that should block only that feature, and only until you swap the module).

In other words, for this to actually sell, it has to be built more like a Windows PC than a Mac. And this is why as much as I'd love to see the level of polish Apple would bring to something like this, I have my doubts about whether they can distance themselves from the hard-to-repair form-over-function design concepts that they are used to, and create something that behaves more like an appliance that people will pass down to their grandchildren when they die.

The NYT should just fucking fail, fuck them.

Real papers could charge for access. But only Nazis would pay the NYT.

Flock is potentially an enormously useful tool, but most cops aren't smart enough to use it correctly. That does make it a poorly designed tool, since they are apparently the primary target market. It's also too easily abused to be allowed to exist.