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Re:Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback? by kmmlng on Thursday January 23, 2025 @06:57AM (#42803147)
> humans are infinitely better for this purpose and way cheaper to produce.

Most of the western world is having demographic issues. We are having trouble getting people to reproduce in sufficient numbers to keep our societies going. This is an ugly trajectory to be on because you have an increasingly big group of old people who need to be supported by an increasingly small number of young people.

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Re:Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback? by portaouflop on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:02PM (#42805708)
I would argue it’s still easier to solve this problem than to build a general purpose robot that has even 1/3 of the capability of a human
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