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The upshot of this is that anyone will be able to order a couple of robot arms from China and then set them up in a garage, programming them with just text, like we do with LLMs now.

Time to think bigger.

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"Time to think bigger."

I want to strap robot arms to paralyzed people so they could walk around, pick up stuff, and climb buildings with them.

Climb buildings? ಠ_ಠ

Yes, sadly, not many places are wheelchair friendly.

Hopefully they invent some kind of sticky gripper instead of just smashing all the windows like Doctor Octopus.

it's called revenge climbing :-)

> Climb buildings? ಠ_ಠ

Doc Oc style.

you probably need robotic leg for walking. or better pony. but doing anything physically requires at least working torso.

> programming them with just text

Isn't programming just text anyway ?

I guess the question is where will they get the money to order those things?

The cost of robotics is coming down, check out Unitree. A couple of robot arms would cost about the same as a minimum wageworker for 1 year right now. But of course they can go virtually 24/7 so likely 1/3rd the cost

Not the OP, but I think you might have missed their point, which I think was: if robots take away people's jobs, how will said people afford robots.

Nobody is doing house chores for me or remaining 99% of population...

> remaining 99% of population...

Well in developing countries you can hire people to do house chores.

You sure about the 99%? A lot of middle class people in developing countries have part time house help

It's quite telling that these discussions often end up at conclusion that we are becoming a developing (or 3rd world) country again, and not Star Trek society.

Long term, humans are redundant and their inefficiency is just something that will be factored out of the system.

Weird, I thought the system existed for humans.

The system exists for capitalists, who are technically speaking humans.

At least until the autonomous corporations really take over.

Little did we know we already invented the paperclip maximizers

Or put a few 6 axis arms on a track that goes throughout a home and have an instant home assistants

Those tracks could be at the ceiling. Imagine a robot arm in a kitchen that is dangling from the ceiling. It could be helping when needed and disappear in a cupboard after that.

exactly exactly - I already want to buy one lol.

> Time to think bigger.

Ehh, no need - just let the LLM figure out what to build in your garage.

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