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Daniel Loxton
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Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. www.danielloxton.com
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We already offload a lot of our most automatable home labour to cheaper, purpose-specific machines. Can a $30,000 humanoid robot mix batter any better than a countertop mixer, or make bread better than a bread maker? My coffeemaker is already programmable & is so cheap as to be treated as disposable

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Utopian, life improving applications for humanoid robots are much harder for me to imagine than job replacing and dystopian tasks for robots of various form factors: cop and soldier bots, say, or self driving Amazon trucks deploying bots to carry packages up the front steps to your door

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Daniel Loxton
@danielloxton.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. www.danielloxton.com
522 followers471 following2.3k posts