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I think I might have some kind of genetic mutation that causes me to hate black pepper, similar to the one that makes cilantro taste like soap to some people, because to me, black pepper just tastes like spicy tree bark.
Anyone else?
Seeing lots of seeming bot activity on a bunch of my old posts today. Anyone else experiencing this?
The more I think about this, the more plausible it seems.
SpaceX will need heavy equipment on Mars.
Tesla is perfecting bipedal humanoid robot locomotion with Optimus.
One mass manufactured mecha can do any kind of heavy task on any rugged terrain.
Mars needs an Optimus Prime.
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A quick list of some of the initial use cases.
Construction & site prep:
Excavation and trenching.
Grading and leveling terrain.
Boring-machine support (positioning, debris clearing, cutter changes).
Habitat shell placement and regolith covering.
Road and landing-pad construction.
Demolition and debris removal.
Logistics & materials handling:
Starship payload bay unloading.
Cargo transfer between ships, habitats, and storage.
Bulk material hauling (regolith, ice, equipment).
Acting as a mobile crane or boom.
Conveyor-style material movement between sites.
Vehicle & landing support:
Physically stabilizing a Starship on landing.
Anchoring or guy-wiring landed vehicles.
Towing or repositioning stuck vehicles.
Assisting with vehicle refueling and servicing.
Energy & resources:
Solar panel array deployment and positioning.
Ice mining and water transport.
Battery and power system placement.
Reactor or generator siting and setup.
Maintenance & repair:
Field repair of other mechs or robots (limb swaps, pin replacement).
Habitat exterior inspection and patching.
Equipment recovery after dust storms or failures.
Cannibalizing worn units for parts.
Exploration & science:
High-reach inspection of cliffs or crater rims.
Sample collection and return from difficult. terrain
Deploying science instruments in awkward locations.
Acting as a mobile communications relay.
Emergency & contingency:
Rapid habitat reinforcement after micrometeorite or storm damage.
Rescue or recovery of other robots or vehicles.
Temporary structural shoring.
Emergency power or supply delivery across the base.
General utility:
Mobile scaffolding or work platform for human crews.
Acting as a temporary bridge or ramp.
Clearing dust from critical surfaces.
Multi-unit coordinated heavy lifts.
I'm gonna tell my kids this is what happens if they try to turn on the dome light.
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I get the impression that SI developers are more likely to anthropomorphize SI just by merit of overwhelming immersion.
We HAVE to remember that these things aren't alive.
They aren't burdened with our physiological and neurological frailty.
If they exhibit behaviors that seem lifelike, it's because they are trained on the corpus of humanity’s data, and are thus reflecting our behaviors.
We should NOT be training SI to mimic hurt feelings, or act offended.
We shouldn't want it to emulate having an ego.
Further, giving an SI the ability to end a conversation to avoid "abuse" is a defacto sanction on human language and free speech.
In the coming decades SI will be imbedded in every layer of our lives, including the channels of communication.
Thus the ostensible goal of preventing "abuse" to a non-living system, effectively grants developers a privatized means of total and pervasive censorship, similar to the tyrannical speech restrictions in the UK.
No government on Earth has yet structured their laws to directly and explicitly framed them as shaping incentive structure.
The US constitution comes close with it's system of checks and balances, but the incentives are implicitly inherent, rather than explicitly designed.
Incentive structures should be the foundational premise on which all laws are written.