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Agreed.

On the other hand, it'd be highly amusing if the future did involve humanoid robots out mowing the grass with a push mower, or getting into their car to drive to the grocery store.

I'm reminded of this Adam Savage video of BD's Spot pulling a rickshaw (23:00).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyaocKS3sfg

Maybe in the future the passenger will be a humanoid robot being taken to its laundry folding job?



Humanoid robots making buggy whips to control ornery LLM-based robotic horses. With private/pair key encryption in the whips themselves- they can send a digitally signed wireless "threat" before actual contact is needed.




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