velocicopter

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   by velocicopter 15y ago

   >An extreme example to illustrate the point: if you eat a random plant and drop dead, I'm not going to look for an explanation, I'm going to avoid eating that plant until I can prove that your death was caused by another factor. Even if
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   by velocicopter 15y ago

   No explanation is given why any supplement is unhealthy. That's the first thing. Secondly, the context in which this occurs is that various government agencies and professional guilds want to prohibit the sale of supplements, or impose ridi
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   by velocicopter 15y ago

   Tools can't reliably fetch sandwiches: 'My usual.' or 'ham salad, easy on the mayo.' Then the robot has to cross the street, queue at the sandwich store, discover that they're fresh out of mayo, or whatever, and has to decide what to do nex
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   by velocicopter 15y ago

   The moment we make a robot capable of reliably fetching a sandwich it will no longer be ethical for us to order it around (at least, not without paying a salary).
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   by velocicopter 15y ago

   There seems to be an assumption here that ecosystems are friendly places but they really aren't. Nature does not know best. The vast majority all species in history have been wiped out by their natural environments, many by their own genes