<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 27, 2026, 5:32 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 27/10/2026 08:44, BillK wrote:<br>
> Each robot had a human operator controlling it remotely from the company’s office in the Mission. A staff member dropped them off and picked them up. <br>
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> For most of the hour, there was no company staff member in the house.<br>
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That's a disingenuous statement, I think.<br>
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I'm not sure how there's much of a difference between someone being physically present in your house, and someone being remotely present in your house, via a teleoperated robot.<br>
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In fact, thinking about it, it would be worse. Would you rather have a cleaner that you've met, talked to, and judged to be a suitable person to be let loose in your house do the cleaning, or an anonymous person or persons you've never even seen?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That's rather the point. This is only "robots, not people" for those who don't think too deeply about it, similar to "security theater".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Granted, it is laying a baseline that truly AI-operated robots may someday be able to take over.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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