For me it’s as simple as charging robots the same income tax as an employee. In my work, we account 40% additional salary for “on costs”. These are typically the wrapper that goes around managing employee; employee benefits, welfare, pensions, continual professional development and professional services like HR to deal with employee issues.

Any business that goes all in on automation is already making a 40% cost saving versus us bags of mostly water.

It’s a shame we’ve spent since the mid-00s in western countries demonising people receiving benefits/welfare. By mid century I believe many people will be displaced from the workforce as professions become increasingly automation.

People left the fields to go to the factories in the Industrial Revolution but the ability to create an unlimited artificial workforce is a paradigm shift we have not seen.

We need to be preparing ourselves for large swathes of the world population not working and find meaning and purpose from other activities.

I’m sure that I’ll get replies that it will take time, the US, China etc. will be first… what about the developing world… yes they will be generationally behind the curve.

Why is it important? You think places like the US has civil unrest now when people are working three jobs with no healthcare to cover rent payments? Wait until your McDonald’s is nothing more than an automated burger and fries vending machine kitchen with one or two employees to clean up and there is mass unemployment.

Sponsored by Wind-eze gel caps.

”….pissing the night away…”

Edit: apparently one of you is not a Chumbawumba fan.

Mythbusters would find out for you. I miss that show.

This is in the context of horticulture but I guess the principle of the same for other disciplines.

https://www.thespruce.com/what-is-an-extension-office-5189448

Meth. They’re gonna do meth.

“There can be only one”

The battery.

ETO Gruppe are utilising a tamper proof ledger in their system. Each unit will be individually registered upon installation and should negate any issues with malicious actors. If it’s proven to work at scale then it could accelerate the adoption of a global standard for IOT enabled devices.

The problem car manufacturers are facing is they are trying to make the self driving systems better than us using the car as the single focal point.

ETO Gruppe in Germany are looking to solve this problem with a series of extremely low cost, durable sensor networks that are highly distributed and redundant.

You only need the car to be good enough for full autonomy on highways as complexities, relative to dense urban environments, are manageable. When you enter a complex urban area then the system will be supported by validated networks.

It’s signage and traffic management designed for computers not derived from sight (which cars are bad at discriminating). Here is a video from the article I linked to explaining the approach.

Sending you Nazi love friend.

And where did you get your textile / materials science engineering degree from? Or is this just on of your reckons?

I’d more likely trust Big Wool than a random Redditor.

https://www.woolmark.com/performance/

I don’t think any Darn Tough use cotton in there construction, I just randomly chose a dress sock and the composition is:

Materials: 63% Merino Wool 35% Nylon 2% Lycra Spandex

How much nylon and spandex is too much and what percentage of this should be changed to cotton?

Are you suggesting they also reduce the Merino wool content as well?

In the UK that type of people involved in aggressive charity fundraising have their own name, “Chuggers” or “Charity Muggers”.