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The only job robot can't do is politician.


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Turns out the only jobs robots can't take are the ones where humans are specialized, such as cleaning staircases.

That really depends on how the robot has been programmed. It's quite likely that robots in office-type settings will have political aspects to their decision making, at least to the extent that bits of corporate policy have been embedded.

That's what robots are for.

Yes.

A human can do a job a robot is incapable of doing.


That's sending a human to do a robot's job.

If there was one task I would say that robots are uniquely unsuited to perform, it would be this.

People to repair, direct, and organize the robots.

I mean, it's kind of a laughable example. Because we don't have humanoid robots today that can do anything meaningful in society, at any kind of meaningful scale. Without that, we are a far cry from having humanoid robots that can literally do everything.


I'm a little confused by this comment. What is your definition of robotic?

Robots also don't play favorites or office politics. If there is a more efficent/better way, it will do it. Even better when it is allowed to re-calculate with new parameters.

An autonomous robot is just a NPC in the real world.

So it's your ambition in life to do a robot's job?

That's what robots are for!

robots with humans in the loop!

most robots are quite capable, but the AI isn't there


Naah, that's what robots are for.

Of course they're robots. Just not autonomous robots.

Robots need to be programmed.

I get to program the robot. Therefore my job cannot be taken.

Until a general purpose robot that can do all the things a human can do is developed and can be more cheaply deployed than a human, a human's gonna do it instead.

If it's doing useful work it's a machine, if not it's a robot
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