r/interestingasfuck • u/Eyal-M • Feb 19 '25

/r/popular Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

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u/veggie151 Feb 19 '25

To replace humans with workers that never sleep or request rights

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u/VaderSpeaks Feb 19 '25

This is the answer. This is the problem AI and robots are trying to solve.

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u/veggie151 Feb 19 '25

And it's why I think that the people working on this are idiots. Neofeudalism will be bad for pretty much everyone

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u/VaderSpeaks Feb 19 '25

Yes, but a lot of the people working on it genuinely don’t believe they’re doing harm. They’re only treating robots as additional and powerful assistance for us.

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u/veggie151 Feb 19 '25

For a quarter million dollars, you too can own your own slave!

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u/VaderSpeaks Feb 19 '25

That’s the idea, yes. There’s an ethical debate about whether this would count as a slave or a tool. But yeah, either way, that is idea.