They are demonic. The business practices are pure evil… And the dolls themselves are unsettling, like a furbee or something, but that’s neither here nor there

No, this is charcoal. If you leave the stove on low enough that the contents don’t reach flashpoint, you basically burn the ingredients without fire

And that gives you lumps of carbon with the rest burned away

Yeah, well, searching things is impossible these days, and after clicking around for a while I found one that looked similar.

I did read an article about one, went to their page and it was listed as $8k, I looked up the specs and it looked like it could pick up about 20lbs and has a weak but reasonable grip, and it made an impact. Then I saw video of someone recording one running down a sidewalk - it was a cell phone recording, but the robot was controlled by someone filming a demo in public

I don’t really care if you take me at my word or not, the price factor to me means more because it means every robotics program in the world will be able to play with them.

But again, this isn’t the core of my argument at all, but by the time I was looking up links I was kinda getting bored with this. I like to argue over ideas, it’s a field I’m following closely with so much happening and we’re just too far apart to make this constructive.

I think it’s inevitable because capitalism, capitalism loves to treat people like replaceable cogs.

These would be literal replaceable cogs that never rest, don’t have rights, don’t need to account for safety concerns, and don’t have any of the other messy human bits

And even if we managed to suddenly outgrow capitalism, being able to have robots making robots in space would be a huge game changer

I see one for $43k on there, I don’t see any for $200k on that site

But that’s kinda irrelevant, as is how much Amazon’s robots cost. The point is how quickly robotics is advancing

There’s so many companies making these that I can’t find the one I saw weeks ago. They’re being tested in real world conditions. There’s a million groups playing with these things, trying to get them to do more and more tasks

And think of what full automation would look like… It would be a bunch of factory equipment like it is now. The automatons just need to carry and place stuff between stations, maybe slot things together and screw them in. That’s not that high a bar

I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable if society doesn’t collapse this decade

Did you not convert from yuan or something lol?

I know I half assed those links, but your numbers are an order of magnitude off lmao

Yeah ok

Amazon delivery robots

$8k robot

No… I’ve never seen those before. That’s not what I’m talking about at all, I also think the Tesla robots piloted by humans are probably going nowhere, for the record

Want to run failed startups past me some more? I gave you examples of humanoid robots being tested in real world conditions

Lmao… That’s a wild take. Boston dynamics has been steadily improving this whole time, they were the first to really crack bipedal locamotion. Not just walking, running and flipping. Carrying loads. Kipping back up to their feet

You can, right now, for $8k buy a humanoid robot that can run, and be controlled to do whatever else. That’s insane

And you can get shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially. These exist and are for sale

Amazon is currently field testing humanoid robots that deliver packages from the truck to the door.

Your knowledge is very dated, friend.

No, I’m talking about automonous humanoid robots specifically. The rollers and shelf bots have been around for years

NVidia also just released a big suite of tools to train AI for robotics, it’s basically a huge physics sandbox where you can train and test models at scale before real world testing

Boston dynamics and others are currently writing/lobbying regulations for bipedal robots so that they can meet safety requirements - current safety standards require an emergency shutoff switch, but bipedal robots fall over if they don’t balance, which isn’t particularly safe

This is happening, and quickly. None of them have the dexterity to machine parts, but the range of tasks they can do is rapidly expanding

I mean you might be right, but I imagine the martyr thing could go either way

Just putting myself in their shoes, it probably won’t feel nice having their dad constantly praised for doing what they saw him die doing

Plus, Charlie Kirk was more hated than loved. There’s no putting them so deep in a bubble that they aren’t confronted with that fact

Kids tend to either follow or reject their parents beliefs… I’m not sure what this kind of trauma does to that, but I’ll bet it’ll make it more extreme

I do too… But I wouldn’t say they don’t stand a chance

Their dad got shot while encouraging gun violence. That might instill some strong opinions in them

The kind of strong opinions that will likely be buried and come out later in therapy

But it could go either way

I don’t know what to tell you, other than it’s already happening. Once the first robot builds a second, it’s over. You can buy one that can physically do light tasks for $8k, this summer Amazon started using robots for deliveries and has been using them for packaging for longer

It’s not science fiction, it’s now an engineering problem, one that is progressing quickly

And if the machines are the ones building new parts, that, like many other things, goes out the window. They can even recycle and refurbish parts

Hey, yeah…I forgot they never actually fixed the Tik Tok situation over here

Political violence is a symptom, not a cause

We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment

And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways

The overhead on the robot is mostly maintenance, which is a humanoid skill. If the robots can maintain each other, or build each other, someone just won capitalism

Of course we do, we can accept it or not.

Choices don’t always change reality, but they always change us

I did not know that… That sucks

And I wasn’t being ironic either. I hope his ill gotten gains are enough for his kids to be ok… The damage he did collecting it will never equal what he squirreled away, but hopefully it at least is enough for his kids to grow up with food and therapists