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@SKleefeld

I think most more normal people like the idea of building something lasting and respected, so to the degree this happens it's because leadership isn't functioning as intended.

You know who might know a lot about how to make sandwiches faster?

The guy who makes dozens of them a day.

But if you work at these companies you'd never tell them because they'd just cut your hours if they even bothered to listen and didn't somehow penalize you for being disruptive or complaining.

If I ran a company I'd want everyone who worked their to brag about their job. This can happen.

The way that some "business leaders" seem to think, especially their behavior around AI makes me wonder if they are totally disinterested in building a powerful and persistent organization.

For all the talk of "team members" and "sandwich artists" there are a lot of companies that aren't organized as collective projects at all.

What I think they find even more difficult? the notion that all employees can have good ideas and their input can be valuable.

Thinking about how the human staff of any organization is an extension of their presence in the world. Consider 100 employees, reasonably happy with their job. That's 100 people who will notice things that might hurt the company, organically promote it's reach, come up with new ideas for future projects.

When some of the staff dislike their jobs less because you treat them poorly that shrinks. When you contract the work out? it shrinks more. When you replace them with AI it becomes a pinpoint.

@drahardja

This is how you roll up to intimidate the other teams at the robotics meet.

@Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly @notoriousiptg @stuartyeates @Quantensalat

Ants are out here already living with the reproductive tech of The Culture.

@CowboyWho

After all of those who fought and died so they wouldn’t have to?

Walking around NYC and I must warn you all that the baggy jean is trying to come back. And those “boot cuts” too.

Ima buy some cowboy boots.

@troy_frizzell @TheGreatLlama

Many jobs that are called "low skilled" aren't and you find it out if you've ever heard a rich person whine and complain and literally cry about how their new housekeeper isn't as good as the old one.

Housekeeping is an absurdly complex job.

@troy_frizzell @TheGreatLlama

I think about how our building has a doorman on duty all of the time. Most of the time they are just sitting at the desk buzzing people in and reading the paper.

Why not have a robot do it?

Nine million reasons. I think about the time my neighbor was having a stroke and how the doorman helped us get her to the ambulance, how they notice a stranger how they alerted the roofing workers when the fire alarm went off... Do I really need to explain this

@T3Z

Lil pink nose!

@troy_frizzell @TheGreatLlama

Or if you are someone who hires and pays for people to do a job that you think of as "just standing around" not understanding the skill and full range of work the PEOPLE you employ do to keep your business making money.

So you see no reason why a human-shaped thing couldn't replace all those pesky people who do things like point out dangerous conditions, or respond to unexpected problems...

@sahqon @TheGreatLlama

I don't really get the desire to reproduce human walking, but without a flexible ankle and foot it's not gonna happen.

@sahqon @TheGreatLlama

Our legs are a lot more than just stiff sections connected by joints.

We might think of the knee as a hinge, but it can also rotate ... ankles and hip are even more complex and responsive.

@sahqon @TheGreatLlama

Walking on two legs is incredibly complex and requires many motors and servos, or whatever kind of motion control you choose to give fine-grained enough options. Then there is the responsiveness and programing ...

Systems complex enough to reproduce it well have many moving parts and points of failure... so they aren't durable.

@khleedril @TheGreatLlama

That might be the better case... I'm thinking they want to put them in nursing homes.

And then one day you'll hear about someone who died, but the robots didn't notice and kept piling pills and food on their tray for days.

@TheGreatLlama

They make me think of the wire "comfort mother" from those old unethical experiments with baby chimps.

*shudder*

@TheGreatLlama

There is something kind of unseemly about it putting "looking person shaped" over taking advantage of the things that machine can do better than a human while not being human shaped.

@dlakelan @TheGreatLlama

You're right that's a bicep. WHY

@OskarImKeller @lowqualityfacts

WHAT