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Personally it's the part where some rich dude in SV tells me he's building what sci fi says will save us time to focus on real things

The irony and complete disconnection from the reality of 99% of people is quite mind blowing indeed



This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected?

The last few years of tech have been full of keynotes with AI that can make art, AI that can send heartfelt messages for you, AI to make music, etc - All things people actually like to do and want to do.

This is a $500/mo robot that can do household chores so you don’t have to. Many people in America (estimated >10%) spend a few hundred a month already on actually hiring cleaners to visit their house and clean biweekly. This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on.

This is a luxury, but it’s a top-25th percentile luxury not top 0.1%.


> This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected?

> This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on.

It's a robot that will be mostly remote controlled by a wage slave to pick up your dirty socks, this is black mirror tier, not startrek tier.




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