Thought Experiment: Robots for Everyone! - a video essay
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Let’s imagine a world where there are as many robots as there are people. The thought experiment reveals something about the economy whether we get personal robot servants or not. Setting aside dramatic robot horror stories (Will Smith's I robot, Terminator, BlinkyTM), let’s focus on a far more likely problem. Let's consider what functional, useful (non-terminator) robot technology does. But let’s focus on who it does it FOR and who it does it TO.
Further Reading:
The Internet Con, by Cory Doctorow.
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Cory Doctorow’s blog post about FTC and outlawing noncompetes:
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FTC lawsuit:
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DoJ Lawsuit:
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A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need. Monthly Review. by Gregg Shotwell.
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Footage sources:
Brett Adcock talks about this scenario on the ARK Invest podcast. “The Future of Human-like Robots with Figure AI’s Brett Adcock”
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Electro the Smoking Robot at the 1939 New York World's Fair from “The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair” Public Domain via Wikipedia.
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2001 A Space Odyssey (1975) trailer
The Jetsons Episode 1 (1962)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Terminator (1989) trailer
I, Robot (2004) trailer
BlinkyTM (2011 • Blinky™ )
Wall-E (2008) trailer
Comics created with MidJourney and ChatGPT/Dall-E and Photoshop/Firefly.
This -- "Let's consider what [...] technology does but focus on who it does it for and who it does it to". Allocation of robots is a direct analogy to allocation of resources.
I suspect this is the kind of thought experiment that should be performed in a fume hood.
love the new video's dude. i lost track of the iron battery hope it went well
Thanks! It's a change, for sure. The last iteration of the iron battery has been submitted to a journal; I'll make a video about it when it gets out of peer review
this dude rocks!
I'd be happy with a robot capable of doing housekeeping... no more than that is necessary. Go on...
There is a B style sci fi series called "Dark Matter". In terms of human interaction with advanced robots, it was exactly as I expect. Simply it can be awesome for humanity or deadly and this depends solely on WHO is creating and developing them. Today its corporations developing robots and AI and profits from driving this development (as in the series). My concerns are today, robotics helps corporations grow and profit and adds no value to humans or their lives now or in the foreseeable future. People like Yuval Noah Harari speak on this and the value of residual humans post the commercialisation period and gives a telling insight into the corporate mind from an insider. In short, I think the path of robotics will be beneficial to the upper 10% of society and the rest will get left behind. We will be "the useless class" (his words). My argument is that corporations are the programmers and have little to no interest beyond there own survival. Its not their good intentions or for the advancement of the human race that drives development. As corporations find cheaper, better and more efficient ways to exist and survive human labour will be redundant. If today you think your government will care for you when we hit the tipping point, I believe you are seriously mistaken. There is also a interesting narrative in the series on human social issues in the series - Interesting only if you consider the application and possibilities. I think in the next 10-20 years, those our children will experience will be feudalistic and I'm not sure that can change.
The capitalist model is over or it's going to be a very disturbing scenario.
8:38 The army's new M7 actually was built for the fancy new .277 Fury cartridge. Made by the same company that built the rifle, Sig Saur.
That's neat. I read in "The Internet Con" that the policy of an open standard for ammunition started in the civil war and has continued since. It seems like that is a good example of an open standard helping a product get developed.