GeriAQuinGeriAQuin@mstdn.social
Oct 5, 2026, 8:39 PM
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HollieKHollieK72Oct 5, 2026, 8:55 PM@GeriAQuin Because if the robots displace us in the office, we won't question why the only jobs we can get are in the mines and oil fields, where we'll end up with horrible diseases, and die more quickly, instead of overthrowing the tech bros in their apocalypse-proof subterranean bunker villages.
Andy Mouseandymouse@todon.euOct 5, 2026, 9:49 PM@GeriAQuin ... Who is "we"??
Micdanmicdan5boringtoots@mstdn.socialOct 5, 2026, 10:01 PM@GeriAQuin
We're exposing the AI to the wrong jobs, where humans are supposed to be on.
Evelyn Octavia •̀ ᴗ -EvelynOctavia@c.imOct 5, 2026, 11:55 PM@GeriAQuin because humans love to be lazy, like me! :)
The November Man ☯️🇺🇦🏳️🌈TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.comOct 6, 2026, 12:07 AM@GeriAQuin 👍💯
Marty FoutsMartyFouts@mastodon.onlineOct 6, 2026, 12:16 AM@GeriAQuin robots have been doing this since General Motors introduced robot welders on an assembly line in 1959. Most robotics is used in manufacturing but there are more robots in agriculture than most of us realize, operating combines, milking cows and so on.
Hazardous materials handling is often done by autonomous robots in environments where telepresence is not possible. Mars exploration is done by robots.
Gaëtan Perraultgatesvp@mstdn.caOct 6, 2026, 12:21 AM@GeriAQuin the robots are doing all of those things. They still need human guidance in several places, but companies are rolling out new robots all of the time.
They all still need human handlers, but we certainly don't have humans with pickaxes doing the mining any more. Offshore oil rigs still have sat divers, but they also depend on the ROVs for deeper work.
Lots of people have built machines to pick plastic garbage out of the ocean. No one is paying to run those machines. Nobody wants the plastic garbage when it's done.
Those fields have been doing robots for a long time.
Only the "PowerPoint and Report-writing" robots are particularly new. And the fact that people are using them to write says a lot more about the nature of those reports than it does about why we're spending trillions trying to solve that problem.
This isn't a pro-AI or anti-AI sentiment. But you can't get to the right answer by asking the wrong question.
Oct 6, 2026, 12:36 PM@gatesvp @GeriAQuin An important point is that just like these robots are not human shaped, their intelligence isn't human intelligence shaped either. We specifically do not want a gargantuan semi-autonomous mining robot to be creative. It can still be programmed in quite intricate ways, but that the machine is only intelligent as far as its ability to solve its intended task is not just a limit, it is a feature.
🍂🥧 Obot 🍁🎃obot50549535@left-bank.netOct 6, 2026, 12:35 AM@GeriAQuin I would extend this line of questioning to the manned space program.
notsoloudnotsoloud@expressional.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:40 AM@obot50549535
Almost all current space exploration is done by robots. The few astronauts are on the ISS and busy with experiments that would be difficult to robotize.
@GeriAQuin- 🍂🥧 Obot 🍁🎃obot50549535@left-bank.netOct 6, 2026, 1:21 PM
@notsoloud @GeriAQuin Yes, almost all the results -- but nonetheless in the US manned space flight gets half the budget, and has for decades.
DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:06 AM
Frobnitz Coil Oilfrobozz@tty0.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:24 AM@GeriAQuin Robots are expensive to build and maintain. People are cheap and plentiful, and the billionaire class consists of people with moral judgement indistinguishable from that of sociopaths.
Oct 6, 2026, 6:48 AM@GeriAQuin we appear to be killing off middle management, which is not bad.
woollypigswoollypigs@sudomakecake.comOct 6, 2026, 6:37 PM@GeriAQuin cheap labour and no workers rights are cheaper and easier to replace than shipping in a new bot.