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The horror of getting stuck with a cheaper and better robot!
by jonknee 11y ago
The horror of getting stuck with a cheaper and better robot!
- enraged_camel 11y ago>>cheaper and better Those two adjectives don't often belong together.
- hasenj 11y agoReally? Today's computers are cheaper and better than computers were in the eighties.
- enraged_camel 11y agoYou are missing the context. Advancements in computer technology were a result of research and development, not someone ruthlessly cutting costs.
- stickfigure 11y agoThese are symbiotic. The research and development pays off because somebody else is willing to ruthlessly buy the new, cheaper/better option instead of the safe traditional choice. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers which gave way to microcomputers which gave way to laptops and now to mobiles.
- threatofrain 11y agoThere are many tasks that machines do today that humans will never outcompete again, and they do it at a superior intersection of benefits and costs. Using a heuristic like that is too lazy and brittle here.