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I’m sure for _some_ people there’s _some_ truth to what you say. Why fold clothes? Because they take up less room when you fold them. Why have a home kitchen?

I’m sure for _some_ people there’s _some_ truth to what you say. Why fold clothes? Because they take up less room when you fold them. Why have a home kitchen? Because some people actually enjoy cooking at home. I think the bigger point here is a robot that conforms to the way humans work. You seem to be implying that if we just had better focused processes, we could do away with some vestiges of our old way of living, which seems to be the exact opposite point of building an AGI robot.

jacobr1 2y ago
Like the old (apocryphal?) saying from Ford that if they asked the customers what they want, they would have requested a faster horse. You can find similar statements people have found from old "man on the street" TV interviews about mobile phones. You have people saying they can use them to call a friend to ask for directions. Or call to ask if a store is open, or if they have an item in stock. Or to make last minute dinner reservations. Turns out they didn't really need to want to "call" to do these things, that was just the previous tech-generation way to get that info and having a mobile app works much better in (many) cases. Home robotics is going to enable us to reconsider other patterns, that still serve the same outcome. Some will be worse, some better, but on net things will settle out over time. Even more radical, why keep the same clothes at all? If you can 3d print exactly what you want on demand, with perfect fit, and recycle it after wear, do you even need laundry? Maybe what you need is instead of a closet is some kind of 3d imager of your body / fabrication room.