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What’s missing is the “camera” panning down to show that road is made of poor men, but that fits because many of them are functionally invisible.

This really wouldn’t be that hard to do, CNC machines are essentially step motors on rails holding a tool head. Old (pre-them just being big inkjets) plotters were basically a 2 axis CNC with a tool head that would retrieve, move, lower, raise and replace specially designed pens. My high school had one, a pretty large format one. So you could already pretty trivially have AI gen sketches drawn with actual pens on actual paper if you go find an old plotter, and a CNC painting machine would be about 80% the same thing.

The harder part by far would be building software to convert a JPEG into instructions to paint with and have it look good.

I’ve dropped most formatting, now I have to drop spellcheck to not be routinely accused of being a bot?

The weird right-wing conspiracy nutters feel the same way about Fauci. It’s wild how obsessed they are with Fauci needing to be punished for a mix of unspecified and entirely invented crimes. Second only to Obama in that department.

Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.

It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.

I mean, teaching is probably the least well fit a task could be for an AI robot, but I’m honestly not surprised at all at a sex doll company working on a project for building AI powered robots for use cases where human-like interaction is important. It’s going to fail for teaching applications, but for say customer service or retail…

Sex doll companies are far more experienced at wrapping a decently realistic looking human form around some mechanisms than the sort of people who normally build bipedal robots. Building “skins” to wrap around bipedal robot frames to make them easier to anthropomorphize for customer facing jobs seems like a logical direction to expand into for a sex doll company looking to diversify. Teaching is just…very the wrong application of this.

Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

I’m going to assume this thing would run a model locally because the alternative would be insane, especially if you’re doing it to reduce the costs relative to hiring a teacher. And if it’s running a local model, then it’s at worst speed running climate change as much as a similarly-long gaming session.

Which is probably the future of embodied AI in practical situations - running a local model in an appropriately designed robot body to the task domain at hand. If for no other reason than because in real applications you’re not going to want response time relying on network turnaround for any important task, or most tasks that involve interacting with the physical world in general.

Or they owned a farm, and 7 or 8 of those kids are already doing significant amounts of farm labor to earn their food. The economics of having tons of kids is radically different when they go from being a cost to a profit in 8ish years instead of from a cost to not a budget item in hopefully 22 if you’re lucky.

The US school calendar was based on the realities of this. So was the election schedule, voting on a Tuesday aligns neatly with the schedules of farmers bringing goods to the nearest town for market.

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The folks who have large numbers of kids typically start handing off childcare duties to the older ones as soon as they’re physically capable of doing those tasks. Especially the girls - usually these sorts of families don’t want boys doing child care unless there are no girls, but the boys start getting used for labor around the same age.

tell that to any woman in the use asking to be sterilized, crazy the hoops you have to jump through

That’s entirely about finding the right doctor. I’ve known men who were refused a vasectomy because “you’ll want kids later and it isn’t always reversible” and were asked to get a consent form signed by their wife. Both are things that are common “hoops” women go through when trying to get a conservative doctor to do a hysterectomy or tubal ligation.

My wife actually brought me with her to the doctor’s appointment where she asked for her hysterectomy “just in case” and the doctor asked why she brought me with her and I kind of sheepishly answered “moral support.” She had seen every other gyno in the area and had problems with all of them, ranging from ignoring her issues to doing a uterine biopsy using a kevorkian punch (look it up, it’s designed to be inserted, and then essentially a metal claw on the business end gouges out a piece of tissue to sample) with no pain relief of any kind on the grounds that “it’s less painful than childbirth”. Most of them were women (including the one that did the uterine biopsy), the one who did her hysterectomy was one of the only men.

There is no profit generation in the industry.

That’s because we’re in relatively early R&D and are trying to speedrun things in a way we generally don’t with most tech. To compare to tech you understand and are familiar with, where we’re at currently would be equivalent to like the internet in the late 80s/early 90s, except we’ve all seen how that went and everyone wants to be the Amazon, Microsoft or Google of the AI market when it moves from high R&D and little to no profit to becoming a mainstream part of everyday life.

That transition point will probably be when bipedal robots that can do most tasks as well as a human while running a local model get cheap enough to be sold as industrial equipment. It’s why Asian labs (especially Chinese ones) keep showing off bipedal robots doing tasks that require either significant agility or fine motor skills involving predicting where body parts are (like doing needlepoint without being able to see it’s hands or doing dance routines).

For any kind of industrial facility I’ve always felt like whosoever is most directly responsible for the safety and negative externalities of the facility should be required to live in the area most affected by them.

You responsible for safety at a chemical plant, our ass gets to live wherever will be most hit by a spill of whatever your most deadly product or reagent is.

You responsible for a data center, you get to live where the water and power issues are most felt.

I mean he said it in the song “Now get in the pit and try to love someone” - you can’t get much deeper in the pit than Trump.

I would assume it’s the one with the nonsense words they hired him to perform at the alternative half time show because the guy doing the real halftime show wasn’t singing in proper English.

This one: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/57/

You’re thinking of this one: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858686749/

Nobody much paid attention to that one until recently, after all he hadn’t been relevant at all for twenty years.

The cause of the cultural behavior usually has a purpose though.

Yeah, but not necessarily one that is still relevant or even ever actually worked towards whatever goal there originally was. Cultural inertia is like that.

So it probably at some point had a purpose, but that purpose (whatever it was) might or might not apply any more or even be total nonsense.

Except it’s almost certainly technically possible. Like I can guarantee you that human level intelligence is possible in a volume of less than 2L of hardware and running on just a few W of power. The idea that human level intelligence cannot be exceeded without needing to match those space, power, or materials restrictions is kind of absurd.

We’re not deleting the old copies. You’ll always be able to go and rewatch the original versions of these works.

…yet. Remember, you’ll own nothing and be happy with it. Or else.

I still find it amusing that the first time Amazon stripped people of a book they had purchased and remotely instructed all Kindle devices to delete already downloaded copies was a version of 1984. Couldn’t have been more fitting if they tried.

Obligatory Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw