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Re:Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs by shpongled on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:02PM (#19903352)
>Luckily, I'm in med school now so I don't have to worry about being taken advantage of in that way

Lol.

It's not that the motivation isn't there to get robots to do the bitchwork in science, it's that the money isn't there in an academic setting.

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Re:Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs by yhoneycomb on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:06PM (#19903387)
I think we mean the same thing but we're expressing it differently!

What I meant was - the motivation isn't there because you can just get people to do your bitchwork for way less than it would cost to invest in a robot.

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