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Would a washing machine count as a robot?
by sdfin 7y ago
Would a washing machine count as a robot?
- sokoloff 7y agoDepending on how defined, it could easily include: a self-service elevator, 3D printers, CNC mills and lathes, a farm combine, automobile service lifts, farm irrigation, power tools, construction equipment, pneumatic tools, power screwdrivers, a dishwasher, an automated telephone exchange, internal combustion engines [or even steam engines for that matter], intermodal container systems, an IVR, spreadsheets, word processors, microwave ovens, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge trimmers, automated boilers, sous vide circulators, any web-based order lookup system, automated parcel sortation machines, possibly all of e-commerce... It seems insane to me that we’d seek to tax productivity improvements in order to encourage maximizing the amount of human labor required to accomplish a given outcome. “Spoons Not Shovels!” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
- paulpauper 7y ago|It is a terrible idea. I dunno how someone who is considered smart like bill gates would endorse it.