I know this won’t affect the stock price (which will keep pumping anyway), but who’s going to buy the robots? There’ll be some enthusiasts sure, but most people actually need cars and will take out a loan to get these. The people that actually need these robots (assuming they even worked in the first place) would be people that need help around the house, and realistically most of them can’t afford this thing. So do we see a repeat of the parking lots filled with cyber trucks, but with robots instead? Or do they just give them out to influencers and con enough rich assholes into buying them to make it work (probably not gonna happen lol).
There’s no way Tesla robots will ever be good enough to do anything useful like house chores or whatever. MAYBE if he sells them with a subscription and it’s actually just some dude in East Asia controlling the robot. But then most people wouldn’t want them because now you’re paying random servants from around the world to hop into your house to serve you.
Actually as I was typing this I realized that is exactly the kind of disgusting bullshit that Tesla owners would love. “Oh yes see it’s not slavery because these people get to stay in their country and their homes and make a wage to be my servant! That means I’m fueling underserved economies! I’m saving the world with my Tesla Servant! Global economics! Together Musk is lifting people out of poverty!”
Fuck these are going to be wildly successful for all the wrong reasons aren’t they.
Oh yeah to be clear I don’t think they’ll work autonomously either. But you’re 100% right that all the wrong people are going to be able to pay Elon a monthly fee to have a servant from another country around the house.
Spending $100k to buy a surveillance robot servant remotely piloted by a child in Bangladesh is simply the price one must pay to not allow a poor into one’s house. If you saw the documentary Parasite, you’d know why we must take these security measures
Black Mirror episode where “Pesla” announces a sexbot but it can’t nail the AI so they have to hire out of work software engineers to operate the bots with VR rigs.
Yet another subject where I have zero faith in Musk’s knowledge or experience
If we all gave ourselves the Men-In-Black mind eraser flash he’d be the first to use science and logic to re-invent guys who think the female orgasm is a myth, starting with himself.
Huge lots full of inert robots is pretty peak cyberpunk. I doubt these things could hold a gun, so I expect there’ll just be a high density explosive module (with recurring subscription) and they’ll use them as shock troops for riot dispersal.
Rich people import foreign workers to be their hyper-exploited social reproduction labourers. If all the foreign workers that do their social reproduction for them are being deported by ICE, they will need robots. (This assumes the robots will ever function, which they won’t, or that they are intended to function someday, which they aren’t)
I know this won’t affect the stock price (which will keep pumping anyway), but who’s going to buy the robots? There’ll be some enthusiasts sure, but most people actually need cars and will take out a loan to get these. The people that actually need these robots (assuming they even worked in the first place) would be people that need help around the house, and realistically most of them can’t afford this thing. So do we see a repeat of the parking lots filled with cyber trucks, but with robots instead? Or do they just give them out to influencers and con enough rich assholes into buying them to make it work (probably not gonna happen lol).
There’s no way Tesla robots will ever be good enough to do anything useful like house chores or whatever. MAYBE if he sells them with a subscription and it’s actually just some dude in East Asia controlling the robot. But then most people wouldn’t want them because now you’re paying random servants from around the world to hop into your house to serve you.
Actually as I was typing this I realized that is exactly the kind of disgusting bullshit that Tesla owners would love. “Oh yes see it’s not slavery because these people get to stay in their country and their homes and make a wage to be my servant! That means I’m fueling underserved economies! I’m saving the world with my Tesla Servant! Global economics! Together Musk is lifting people out of poverty!”
Fuck these are going to be wildly successful for all the wrong reasons aren’t they.
Oh yeah to be clear I don’t think they’ll work autonomously either. But you’re 100% right that all the wrong people are going to be able to pay Elon a monthly fee to have a servant from another country around the house.
Spending $100k to buy a surveillance robot servant remotely piloted by a child in Bangladesh is simply the price one must pay to not allow a poor into one’s house. If you saw the documentary Parasite, you’d know why we must take these security measures
Why don’t they put the children inside the robot and just have it shock them if they disobey?
Plausible deniability
Humanoid robots are a scam to inflate stock prices.
for more info I’ll refer to
this: A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos | MIT Technology Review
and this: The Automation Trap: What Robots Are Really Selling
just like all the other scams to inflate stock prices
if only people would remember valuation ≠ value more often 😮💨
The robots will be used for military purposes since the $1 trillion budget has to go somewhere.
idk, The Market is not looking pleased at the moment, at least in the short term.
The market will come around once Tesla announces that the robots will have a pussy.
Black Mirror episode where “Pesla” announces a sexbot but it can’t nail the AI so they have to hire out of work software engineers to operate the bots with VR rigs.
The robot you’ve bought is actually just a guy in a costume.
That’s probably something that could get some VC funding with a hip name and an app.
Is that gay?
depends on what the costume is
That says so much about society.
The Dawn of the Furries is at hand!
Yet another subject where I have zero faith in Musk’s knowledge or experience
If we all gave ourselves the Men-In-Black mind eraser flash he’d be the first to use science and logic to re-invent guys who think the female orgasm is a myth, starting with himself.
Huge lots full of inert robots is pretty peak cyberpunk. I doubt these things could hold a gun, so I expect there’ll just be a high density explosive module (with recurring subscription) and they’ll use them as shock troops for riot dispersal.
Rich people import foreign workers to be their hyper-exploited social reproduction labourers. If all the foreign workers that do their social reproduction for them are being deported by ICE, they will need robots. (This assumes the robots will ever function, which they won’t, or that they are intended to function someday, which they aren’t)
the deported people can control the “robots” from CECOT