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Great read. This kind of reminds me of auto manufacturing. It's almost unintuitive how difficult, expensive & error prone paneling is. Also painting. Stamping
by dalbasal 5y ago
Great read.
This kind of reminds me of auto manufacturing. It's almost unintuitive how difficult, expensive & error prone paneling is. Also painting. Stamping out panels, painting and installing them is a very hard job to do with robotics. Most of the space, treasure and expertise invested into an auto factory is panel related. The "possible, but perpetually difficult" space can be a deep valley for robotics, it seems.
...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction.
- waynesonfire 5y agolol.. and we're talking about AI replacing humans next year so come get your basic income check.
- failuser 5y agoAI replacing humans as workers will not result in basic income. It will result either eradication of non-ruling classes or humanity itself.
- dalbasal 5y agoMaybe it'll be like that cow that wants to be eaten. Don't count your evil crow chicks before they've hatched.
- exporectomy 5y agoHistorically, most people were farmers. That got automated, and yea, I guess the non-ruling classes were eradicated in the sense that we stopped having serfs and slaves and everyone became more powerful, could own land, etc. It was good news, not bad.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> ...And bricklaying, while conspicuous and important, is still just one job in construction. My understanding is that bricklaying is a bottleneck. You can do things before bricklaying, and things after, but not really at the same time.
- ptha 5y agoI think Tesla had a lot off issues when trying to automate as much as possible, possibly trying to push the envelope too much at the beginning. Last year they've started installing "Giga Presses" - the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world, in order to reduce parts and increase automaton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press#Tesla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press#Tesla