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The lady who drove a Mercedes to pick up food vouchers.
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RE: The lady who drove a Mercedes to pick up food vouchers.
(July 22, 2014 at 9:03 pm)Heywood Wrote: A human needs quite a bit more than rice, eggs, and vegetables. A human needs rice, eggs, and vegetables for their spouse and children too. As well as a house and car and clothes.....and entertainment, medical care, toilet facilities....etc. There is much more that goes into sustaining a human being than you initially think.

All a robot needs energy and maintenance.
All he says....all....lol.....and the desinger, and the r/d budget, and a maintenace bay, and a tech, and his family, and his house, and his car - And the people who work on his car and his......we could go on and on. Robots aren't islands any more than a man might be. I'd be willing to wager, as cool as it would be, that we won't require field laborers by the time we figure out how to make a robotic one. Field laborers are a very specific tool. Bit like designing a robot to work a halyard on a ship of the line - in 2014.

On a more sober note. I don't have to buy the field workers productivity upfront - in the way I would have to pay for the productivity of a robot upfront. That's why, for me, they would have to work better than a standard hammer- all other parameters being equal. I suppose that it;s an easier metric to meet in other occupations - where the gate is human speed, or productivity over time (a robot doesn't sleep) - but ag is actually gated by the biology of the crops. No amount of working faster will make the crops grow faster - and I can already plow an entire county under with time to spare with nothing more than a tractor. That 5 acre marker is subsistence farming with a stick out of a mud hut and no electricity (like the good 'ole days)..lol. Hell, if I were still in florida it would be hut optional.
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RE: The lady who drove a Mercedes to pick up food vouchers. - by The Grand Nudger - July 22, 2014 at 10:14 pm

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