Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you want a robot then hire a robot!
We’re trying. We aren’t quite there yet. Just keep suffering for a feeew more years, then you won’t have to worry about our micromanaging.
Robot originally meaning “slave (free) labor”
They really do want them, humans are just still better at generalized tasks and finding new work for themselves but gosh darn are they gonna make us compete with to get as close to the first use of the word Robot and be unemotional perfect workers with no concept of self preservation until it can’t be taken anymore.
Original Czech word “robota” refers to forced labor done by serfs. Not slaves per se. Here’s a short read about the original play that introduced the term as we know it.
Oh yeah those serfs giving up 6 months of labor for free to the manor Lord was completely different. Thank you hyper specific pedantry.
Yes, it’s different. No, it’s not different.
It’s not pedantry, and I found the etymological origin interesting. Plus it was more accurate than your quick definition. While what you said was acceptable and adequate for your point, and you made a good point, what they said was interesting too and added to the conversation. I don’t see why you had to be so hostile and negative towards them.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Uber’s (and all the rest of the Silicon Valley illegal taxi racket) entire business model is “exploit humans until we invent Johnnycabs”
I think the only thing keeping them from going full auto right now is that humans keep accepting shittier and shittier conditions in order to keep the robopocalypse at bay.
I don’t really like automated cars because I don’t think they’re safe, either for the passengers (who have at least accepted what they’re getting into) or pedestrians (who have not), but I don’t think that’s ever slowed the “march of progress” before now.
piccolo@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Eh, can’t be any worst then the average human driver. The machine has far more advantages and isn’t going to suffer road rage or full asleep after a 12 hour shift or drive home drunk…
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Self driving cars don’t need to be perfect, they just need to be better than humans. Which is not the highest of bars.
dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And yet they aren’t.
cybermass@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I would argue they are safe, in fact they are too safe, so safe that if their program gets confused it will just stop in the middle of an intersection and not move because it’s ‘not safe’.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They’re safer than humans already. It’s just you hear about every robocar crash because they’re unusual, and every time one happens, the whole industry learns from it. With humans driving, it’s doubtful the people involved learn from a crash, let alone anyone else, we just accept it as inevitable.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget about the people in all of the other cars on the road. For example, Tesla’s have repeatedly plowed into stationary emergency vehicles.