Philip Glass worked as a plumber into his 40s because composing music didn’t pay the bills.
Even this human is dumb. He started the conversion with the robot then acts like the robot is bothering him!
“Automating plumbing” sounds like a good way to literally enshittify your house.
Also, it doesn’t matter how many symphonies you compose if no one wants to listen to them.
I don’t know about other people, but me personally I don’t compose music for other people to hear, I do it for myself.
If plumbing was actually standard enough we could automate 90% of it. On good news art isn’t that much standard either so robots will go away soon.
We automated plumbing. It’s called plumbing.
Same deal for laundry, dishes, farming-- there’s so much stuff where human labor has been almost entirely eliminated, and people still bitch about the tiny remaining fraction. Ugh, you have to put the dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them, and then take them out? That’s bullshit. Where’s my robot maid!
“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.” Systems includes the robots as far as I am concerned.
I never heard that quote, where is it from?
Looks like it’s from the late great Michael Brooks
You betcha.
Systems include plumbing!
The first casualty of a good meal.
This is accurate. People are conflating plumbing, with the act of installing, and maintaining plumbing. It doesn’t help that the act of maintaining the plumbing (noun) is called plumbing (verb).
But people don’t want to have to hire a plumber to fix the plumbing when it is not doing what it is supposed to.
They want “AI” to do it. Except that such a thing would require advanced robotics more than “AI”. With advanced (and affordable) robotics, the plumber wouldn’t need to actually go to your house, they could just remotely control the plumber bot from the comfort of their home, or from a central office or something. The person that shows up with the bot can be little more than a minimum wage delivery driver. Deliver the bot, make sure it powers on, make sure nobody steals or destroys it, then pack it up and move on when it’s done. The highly paid plumbers never have to go anywhere, and can basically hop from one bot to the next. While they’re working on one job, a bot is already en route to their next job, and ready to go when they finish with the current job.
We’ve adapted art and communication to the Internet. We have not done the same for plumbing (the verb). So expecting something that you can’t even currently do with a computer, to now basically be done by AI, which is confined to the restrictions of a digital-only environment, is foolish at best.
Since we adapted communication and art to digital media already, it’s almost trivial to have that generated by “AI”.
We need to build a robot capable of the work before we can do anything more here.
The dishwasher (robot) is insufficiently subservient. That’s why you have to put LLMs in all the things. So it can say “That’s such a good idea! You are so clever for thinking of that” when you start it.
Ryedaft, founder of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Would you like me to help you with that?
This comic is clearly about the plumber occupation and about jobs as a whole and not simply a dishwasher.
I love putting dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them because every time I do I am reminded of the effort I’m saving and how much more water efficient the box is.
Now, what I am really missing is a box that folds clothes
I find that any box folds clothes. If you mean folded such that they don’t wrinkle, I think you’re looking for a closet.
Always reminds me of this bit on the Conan O’Brien show.
Gotta love the perennial “our kids are spoiled idiots” bit. That one never gets old. I bet at least one of Aritophanes’ plays will have made fun of the damn kids.
Really the best part of this comic is that the robot has sentience and has arms. In theory the robot could do the plumbing. However, out of pure prinicple the robot chooses only to focus art.
Really the best part of this comic is that the robot has sentience and has arms.
so do most humans, yet plumbers still exist.
True however humans weren’t created to do plumbing. The robot was created to create art.
You were directionally evolved by monsters who resented artists’ ability to create value through pure expression. Mimicking the conjuring of that value was at once a parlor trick, then a means to undercut the livelihood of anyone not willing to explicitly and finitely explain the art they created (thus giving it metric to be measured by and value-assigned).
The wax ring and plumbers putty are set. Keep the caulk dry for 36 hours and try to not touch it or it could crack.
Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-2
Includes an extra panel (red button) and title text, as usual for SMBC
What does
god need with a starship?a robot need with a sink?AI’s water usage is a pretty well-known problem with the industry.
It’s there so that all those humans who insist their lives will have no “meaning” without having to work for a living have something to work on for a living.
it vastly simplifies cleaning up when they start purging their human
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Clanker hate on Lemmy
And making hands with extra fingers
