>>14310570Agreed. I operate various CNC manufacturing machines for my job which can make parts that used to take months to manually machine/finish in a day. That's surprising to me though. Are you being serious about raw material? Like I'm thinking of the limiting factors here. Is it not that a human being can only operate so much machinery per day to extract that material and the wage you have to pay them makes most material cost prohibitive?
I wrote up my whole schizo post a while back on /diy/ and got exactly as many replies as I deserved but it's 4am here now. I'd love to tell you about it though hopefully it's slow enough so I can come back and write it up in the morning.
You know that Boston dynamics video where he has the box and he keeps having to pick it up? VERY basically I'm imagining a world where we have good enough AI image interpretation that it can perceive its surroundings. Then it iterates physics simulations to determine what movements it needs to make to complete a certain task. Take mining for example. It has a pickaxe, walks down the mine, sees the hematite or whatever, whacks away and brings that rock back up to the surface. Obviously that would be HORRENDOUSLY inefficient but in PRINCIPLE some guy WAS doing that back in the 1800s. You just have to give it tracks, articulated arm with a drill and mineral scanner and a big bucket idk lol you get the point. Same with the next guy up the supply chain, just replace him with a robot. Okay I'm getting really tired now and this is getting incoherent srry. The way I see it is the only reason we don't have robots doing everything is:
A) Programming to do the task (aka cost to pay programmer)
B) Cost of robot+maintenance and labor being cheap (aka not enough robots automating material extraction and assembly)
C) Unreliability (aka shit programmer)
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>>14310560Because my life is a shell and opiates are the only thing that gives me joy but I'd lose my job if I let it get out of control via tolly
