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Yes I suspect this too. Look at a small part, in a small area and you see positive. A lot of things are moving back home because of automation, devastating so
by aaron695 10y ago
Yes I suspect this too.
Look at a small part, in a small area and you see positive.
A lot of things are moving back home because of automation, devastating some countries.
Garment workers are about to be fucked. Robots are getting cheaper than cheap labour. So why not process it next door to the subsidized cotton.
But even from a selfish point of view, things currently at home are also going to be devastated.
One industries small renaissance at home is probably coupled with another's larger destruction.
- madengr 10y agoI'm wondering why garment production wasn't automated years ago.
- kasey_junk 10y agoLots of it is, but a big driver for why automating garment work being more costly than other kinds of automation is soft things, like cloth, are harder to deal with consistently than hard things like metal. It folds and distorts in shape in much less normal patterns, requiring more sophisticated algorithms.
- aaron695 10y agoIt's really hard http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-robotic-sewing-machine-could-throw-garment-workers-low-cost-countries-out http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-...
- Pica_soO 10y agoThere was a third worldwar when the replicator was invented. Gene Roddenbery warned us!
- visarga 10y agoActually I think we got a better chance of creating a self replicating factory than AGI. We have robots and materials, we just need to make the whole system 100% automated, and it's looking good with all the 3d printing and CNC innovations. Such a self replicating factory would be organized like a computer. It would have memory, which will be the storage space, and a data bus, which is the logistics system, and a CPU which is the collection of processing units (3d printers, cnc, ovens, presses, etc). We will program it with an API and define products like we define software, then the factory would compile it to production and actually produce it. When the factory is able to reproduce its own tools, it can create more of itself and jumpstart the process. You could also say it works like a cell or an organism - self reproducing, self healing, able to survive. We're self reproducing factories ourselves. It's the birth of a new life form, when robots don't need us to reproduce and repair themselves.
- nickpinkston 10y agoAt Plethora, we're working on a similar vision! Happy to hear your take and talk about ours. Email me if you'd like: nick@plethora.com