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Re:The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if ever... by pixl97 on Monday June 10, 2024 @10:08AM (#40633858)
>is an inability to tell which projects are easy and which are hard

https://xkcd.com/1425/

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Re:The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if ever... by dagw on Monday June 10, 2024 @10:35AM (#40634093)
Of course the funny things with that cartoon is that today the 'hard' task is just as easy as 'easy' task, if not easier. Which I guess only goes to show that not only is it hard to tell what is easy and what is hard, it is equally hard to tell which 'hard' tasks will remain hard and which will become trivial in a few years time.
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Re:The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if ever... by krisoft on Monday June 10, 2024 @10:41AM (#40634154)
> it is equally hard to tell which 'hard' tasks will remain hard and which will become trivial in a few years time.

The comic was published in 2014. That is 10 years ago as I'm writing this. Maybe it is just that Ponytail got the research team and the five years she asked for. :)

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