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What a meaningless metric. Number of discrete robots is not a measurement of productivity, labor, task throughput or anything like that. Also the regular yada

• pydry 1y ago
  It's not supposed to be scientifically meaningful it's a reprinted press release that is supposed to spin a narrative that makes Amazon workers feel insecure about their jobs and investors feel confident that those wages will shortly be converted into dividends. You can tell what the Wall Street Journal's true feelings are about automation by reading an article about retirement and dividing the number of times they use the term "AI" by the number of times they use the phrase "demographic/retirement crisis" e.g. in https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/blackrock-larry-fink-annual-letter-8484e68e https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/blackrock-larry-fink-a...
  • baggachipz 1y ago
    "Robots don't take bathroom breaks, so you shouldn't either. If you're lucky, we'll let you work for a little while more until we can replace you with something cheaper. Now, back to work!"
• bryanlarsen 1y ago
  There are hundreds of computers in every car. We all know that this number has little correlation with human replacement. Robot is a term with such a wide range of capabilities that a simple count is meaningless. Just like a tiny 4 bit micro that monitors a single sensor isn't comparable to a computer running a large LLM.
• m463 1y ago
  I wonder if there are more shelves than humans?