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Elon Musk is telling them what they want to hear so they’ll go along with it.

Eugene Shalit (March 25, 1926 – June 12, 2026) leaves the Celebrity Dead Pool…

dissent555 had the goods.

Here’s the hurdle that I see – while a robot can perform almost every single task a human can perform, there are a couple of problems that will be hard to overcome. First, look at the many multiple layers involved in making a fried egg for breakfast:

Get pan, put oil in it, put it on stove, turn in stove, go to fridge, open it, find egg, pick it up, close fridge, go to stove, break egg into pan, time cooking, get plate, put egg on it, turn off stove, transport plate to table.

Think about the programming necessary, and the various forms of mechanical dexterity necessary. Any of them individually isn’t that hard. However putting them all into one unit? And then consider the flow charting for exceptions. Let’s start with the easy ones. For some reason the egg pan is not in the normal location. What should the robot do? Or what happens if it drops the egg in transporting it?

Now, breakfast is over; someone else please program the logic necessary to clean the kitchen and do the dishes.

Oh, and when that’s done please do the programming for the same unit to collect, wash, dry and fold the laundry. There’s a bonus for programming finding socks on the floor and correctly pairing them.

Too Long/Didn’t Read version: Jerusalem is on the horizon but the horizon is a lot farther away than it appears a first glance.

You can beat the nytimes.com paywall with F5 -> Ctrl-A -> Ctrl-C (quick before the paywall comes down!), then paste into your text editor.

It works at freepress too, I just found out.

How it works?
Simple really.
It doesn’t.
While wealth is not a zero sum game, resources are still finite.

And then, where is the joy in owning your Mclaren when everyone owns the same model in your tidy little pop up look alike houses neighborhood all provided by the kindly owners of the robot corporation for free?

This brings me back to my eternal desire to know…
In Rivendell, full of happy singing wonderful elves, who makes the beds every morning and cleans Elrond’s shitter?

@Durnedyankee — In Rivendell, the beds and shitters are enchanted. The beds make themselves, and the shitters are friction-free so everything slides away leaving no stains, and ends up in an enchanted vat where it turns into roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, and a nice burgundy.

@Uncle Al😁
I believe you are quoting from a “Mamdani for Mayor of Rivendell” campaign flyer, are you not?
Though it could be from any campaign promotional from the re-election campaigns for Prime Minister, President of the US, or governor of several of the totally fraud free blue states like California or Illinois.

So much magical goodness is truly infinite!