I’ve decided that the third Industrial Revolution is a foregone conclusion, so I’ve pivoted to try to make it better for everybody, not just corporations and go

I’ve decided that the third Industrial Revolution is a foregone conclusion, so I’ve pivoted to try to make it better for everybody, not just corporations and governments. If we do it right, at least we will get a new washing machine* out of it. I also think our work will help to underpin safety, and that actually a big deal, because as it turns out safety isn’t a bolt-on. It must be something resembling character, or it will be discarded in the same way that humans set rules aside when the calculus seems to support doing so under the governing incentive framework. What I amo doing may slightly accelerate the process, but if I don’t succeed there is a much higher probability of having robots that are not generally useful to humans as a type, and will be completely captured by industry as subscription units, surveillance devices, and in general something that companies can use to harvest resources from you rather than a device you own that delivers all of it’s potential value to you as the owner. *silent killers of human misery since 1937