Comment by greggsy
5 days ago
The clothes folding is almost certainly a person.
This sort of menial task would likely be given to someone in a poorer part of the world, who ironically will be some of the first to master the first generation of remotely operated high tech robots.
The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.
> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots
If anything, robots will make rich people richer and their position more secure. Once again, you're hoping for a technological solution to non-technological problems
How? If something like that would happen robots would be disabled in 5 minutes.
Like how operating systems get disabled when someone launches a DDOS? :P
Even if robots do get disabled in just 5 minutes, 30 seconds of surprise is plenty for a coordinated decapitation strike (both literally and metaphorically) once enough of the leadership (national or business, take your pick) normalise having these around them, in their homes, preparing things for the next morning while the owners sleep.
Even on a small scale, some random hacker's going to turn one of these into "Mr Stabby the 100% Deniable Assassin". I'm fairly confident this prediction will be ignored until it happens, and moderately confident that when it does some newspaper will find this quotation and use it as their headline.
> 30 seconds of surprise is plenty for a coordinated decapitation strike.
Some guys in a mediterranean country are drooling right now...
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I feel like this is the sort of thing William Gibson should write...
There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less
>> Sleep Dealer depicts a dystopian future to explore ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants.[2] A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
Nice! Thanks!
... I mean not "nice" as in "all that sounds nice" . I mean "nice" as in "nice dystopia".
> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.
$7,999 a clanker. I can totally imagine hordes of poor people driving around in turret-equipped F-150s packed with robots in evil facemasks.
- Hey, bankster, hands upon the fucking wall!
If it were to get to that point, they are already inside your house, paid for by you.
I’m not sure you understand the comment
Upon re-reading it, yes, I apologize, got it wrong. An army of poor people remotely controlling an army of robots already implanted into rich houses would be fun.