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I am pretty sure this type of robot would save so much relationships.

I work for IBM and they just announced Tuesday we’d be going back to the office three days a week starting March 6. Yes that’s less that two weeks notice.

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Well, they should go right ahead and hire people at low COL locations if that works out. Most companies will not go outside the country for that, because if they could, they already would have.. A lot of contracts require US citizens working on it.

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I hate how Google dictates how people are forced to design their websites and pages... and then they will only put 5 results on the first page. They're making people jump through hoops for nothing. SEO is bullshit.

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> Its like Covid, you dont count all deaths, you count excess deaths.

Alright, what amount of these are you trying to label as "climate disasters" and how many more are you trying to label as "weather disasters", if that's what you're trying to get at? Or are you just trying to dismiss the increase of these events due to climate change?

Job elimination/ replacements are fine and have always been a part of history, the thing that is new will be the rate of job eliminations.

When this rate exceeds attrition you ruin people’s lives (locally this has proven true). I fear this coming change will be many orders faster than attrition

I disagree. I've been using AI for as many things as I can think of and 50% I get the time I get the same results without having to scroll through garbage.

Yeah but this applies to everything really.

Manufacturing solar panels and processing metals require electricity on Earth as well.

Nevertheless it’s simply a matter of a one time investment of energy getting you a solar cell that will repay it over time.

From the article

>Ever since the ESA commissioned ClearSpace's first project, ClearSpace-1 in 2019, the company has been on a mission to clear space junk.
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>The mission consists of a giant four-armed robotic spacecraft that can grab space debris. Once the debris is captured, the spacecraft will send it down toward Earth, where it is expected to burn up in the atmosphere.
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>While the initial plan was to launch ClearSpace-1 in 2025, the tentative year of launch has been moved to 2026, following the recent review. The mission's primary target will be the upper stage of the VEga Secondary Payload Adapter (VESPA) which was launched by the ESA rocket in 2013.

Lol right? You hate your job? Fuckin get a new one. That’s the way it’s been past, present and futurology.

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He said a lease, you did a loan, but he’s wrong?? K.

There are already experimental automated grocery warehouses where robots put together orders.

I’m convinced that this tech will replace most grocery shopping eventually, but it will take longer than a decade just to build out the warehouses and that is after the concept is proven and refined enough to be economically viable.

There’s a saying: “The future is here, it’s just not equally distributed yet.”

Basically, the lag between proof of concept and general availability is usually longer than you would expect. Most people aren’t as eager for change as the average person in this sub.

My guess is around 10% of people in rich countries will have access to automated grocery shopping in 10 years, and it will be the norm in 20 years.

Yes specially the fact that the Jetsons are elite Zillionaires living on skyscrapers on top of all the pollution.

And we are bellow in the dumps.

I mean I do think cheap electric commuter cars are coming. Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, ford Focus, etc but electric versions

That's factoring in the government subsidy in many states on EVs, so it's plausible

Yup, I work in financial services. They gave us a big bullshit story about how we had to be “physically present” with each other for the magic to happen. Then they promptly started adding team members who are in other states. Oh it’s fine. They will be in their local office for our team in office days. Just not physically present with us. What an absolute load of hypocritical bullshit.

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Grocery stores with heavy delivery and pickup (think Kroger in major metros) are starting to move that function to fulfillment warehouses which are much easier to automate than picking a retail store.

I don't think you understand what a lease is if you think that's a subscription model. Maybe more of Hardware or an Appliance as a Service assuming the maintenance is rolled in, but it certainly is not a subscription based model.

If our society wasn't structured such that people have to work to live, machines automating away menial jobs would be universally heralded as a good thing. It's a shame we aren't ready for technology like this.