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"Who wants to buy that?"... really? Elon Musk is trying very hard to produce robots and failing... imagine if it had access to a tech that solved all the hard

• sothatsit 1y ago
  The cost, complexity, and logistics of genetically engineering millions of people, and raising them, is astronomical. That's not to mention the level of backlash someone would receive for this would be unbelievable. This genuinely feels like something people would go to war over. It just doesn't make sense. It is much cheaper and easier to just pay already-living people to work for you, instead of waiting decades and spending millions of dollars genetically engineering and raising each person, just in the hope that they then decide to work for you. That's just ridiculous. The appeal of robotics is that the robots cost $30,000, you can build them on an assembly line, and they do not have emotions so will happily complete repetitive tasks over and over again all day and night. Comparing that to the cost of raising children, genetically engineering them, and coercing them into working for you is just insane. The maths do not work out at all, never mind the fact that it would require a logistical marvel to actually make this happen, and you would require immense amounts of power to not be stopped. From every single angle this just doesn't make any sense at all.