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Re:Learning Dexterity by hk__2 on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:27PM (#17648207)
> The solution is pretty easy though: Widespread enough ownership of robots.

"Get everybody rich" is a solution to a lot of problems, but it’s not easy.

> Making sure there are good open source versions of the robots should allow everyone to benefit from robot labor.

Open-sourcing is a great thing, but does it really reduce the cost of building a robot?

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Re:Learning Dexterity by BenoitEssiambre on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:33PM (#17656310)
Once robots are doing all the labor, and you have open source plans and code, the cost is only that of raw materials and energy.
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Re:Learning Dexterity by hk__2 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:11PM (#17656641)
> Once robots are doing all the labor, and you have open source plans and code, the cost is only that of raw materials and energy.

You still have to pay the people who write those open-source plans and code, plus the ones who build these robots (or the one who build the robots that build the robots), and the ones who sell it. Also, maintainance and updates costs.

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Re:Learning Dexterity by BenoitEssiambre on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:37PM (#17658632)
Not once robots are doing all the labor. You just ask your robot to do it, or maybe your friends' robot if you don't have your first robot yet.
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Re:Learning Dexterity by hk__2 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:01PM (#17667459)
With the current state of AI, the situation you’re describing won’t exist before a century, if it ever exists. You can’t call such thing an "easy" solution.
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