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it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

Behold a printer that actually works: www.amazon.com.au/Brother-HL-L...

Or a dryer that folds fitted sheets.

Doesn't that act involve four dimensional geometry?

No, see, that’s the thing that actually will end the world

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

I live for the day when someone writes in an obituary "____ passed away after a long battle with the wireless printer"

best I can do is a Brother laser jet that only prints five boobed Alf images

I would settle for a better spelling and grammar check - like the one my standard issue one I had before the AI one magically appeared on my devices and is so bad I can’t write on a device without getting mad

My working theory is that the reason it’s all “AI! Crypto! Simgularity!” Is because everything about actually being a body in a world of matter is tacit (ie material properties), taken care of by infrastructure (water, sewage, HVAC…), gendered (food, clothes…), or someone else’s problem (pollution).

Also because those things are Hard

It's also why they keep insisting the tech is good at doing the things it's terrible at and don't think at all about the things it does that it is actually good at, since all of that is kinda boring and of minimal use to people who don't already possess a robust creative skillset.

It just makes me so mad. There are so many cool possibilities, and instead we have this shit. Like, there are cool possibilities that you can ask current AI to do, but they foolishly did not design it for THOSE so it's a crapshoot whether it will work and thus it cannot be trusted.

So the fact you have like a 50/50 shot at something usable makes it not worth the environmental cost. Give me a fucking AI that will do my laundry and dishes, cowards.

Even in terms of AI that still does data work vs physical labor. We could EASILY have an AI with a primary purpose of processing and organizing a lot of information very quickly. It would still need a LLM of sorts to properly parse an explanation of the task, and to format the answer well.

Right, you should have that. I personally don't mind laundry or dishes - I want one that'll do ALL my windows, inside and out, on its own, with no intervention whatsoever from me.