James Maxey @JamesAllenMaxey
A guy who writes stuff. Reality is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. jamesmaxey.net Hillsborough, NC Joined November 2017-
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One by one, the books get sold. It's a long slog until May 18, my first event of the month. While I wait, I get this buzz in my skull whenever I get a download on Amazon. It's like a spider-sense for book sales.
"Settings sell." When I pitch my books to customers, I always include the broad setting. Post-apocalyptic America" "a D&D style world," "the near future," etc. The when and where of a story grounds it and creates expectations.
"Settings sell." When I pitch my books to customers, I always include the broad setting. Post-apocalyptic America" "a D&D style world," "the near future," etc. The when and where of a story grounds it and creates expectations.
Working a job I hated also filled my heart with darkness and cynicism, which turn out to be marketable qualities in fiction writing.
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4K Followers 4K Following By day writing about design, art, wine . By night, writing creatively, purging my soul & asking questions #WritingCommunity@peterrhague or an economics barrier. why assume delicate robotics are going to be cheaper than human hands?
@peterrhague The only barrier is energy, once energy density allows true autonomy, nothing will stop their growth.
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@peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey In practice a humanoid robot won't be economic for these super repetitive tasks. The big unknown is whether these robots can really learn new tasks on their own without human intervention.
@JamesAllenMaxey @peterrhague Hopefully, but in the meantime we have to do something to bridge the gap.
@JamesAllenMaxey @peterrhague yes but the idea is that tools and factories are designed to be operated by humans
@peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey He has Starlink which is 100% funding the Mars program
@StrangeWorldddd @33824vdc @alexrosa @peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey Creating machinery that replaces all labor is good actually.
@StrangeWorldddd @alexrosa @peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey Well then it is much cheaper to incent better safety precautions for theb job and perhaps remote-operating various vehicles instead of using the hilariously inefficient platform that is the human body for a robotic baseline. Oh and "Weigh profit over employment"?? That aint true
@33824vdc @alexrosa @peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey This isn't the goal, that's a byproduct that serves only to weigh profit over employment. We can automate the simplest things, then what's left? The risky jobs that hurt people. Recipe for failure.
@JamesAllenMaxey @immanentizoor @jj_aok @peterrhague The idea is to have these everywhere hundred of millions of them. That can go do virtually whatever you need then to. Doing this project is just proof of concept. That with cameras and ai alone you can train a task, now once you've updated to hundreds of tasks it becomes useful
@StrangeWorldddd @alexrosa @peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey This isnt entirely correct. The various tasks that can be automated are oftentimes the simplest and most repetitive. Pick up -> place down is very easy for a robot to do, but put a human in there and they will quickly be bored, make slight mistakes and various other things.
"Human scale" neighborhoods have nothing to do with building heights and everything to do with streetscapes and storefronts.
@peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey Long-term it's almost always better in terms of precision, speed, and quality to just redesign the process for automation than to shoehorn a robot into a process designed for a person.
@alexrosa @peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey No it won't, we have practically an unlimited supply of 'humans' that can do this without issue. The goal of robotics was never to replace 'the easiest things we can possibly do that don't endanger our own lives.' Its to do the things we want to do but come with risk.
@peterrhague @JamesAllenMaxey Not nearly enough. Just the R&D for the tech to actually be realistic will cost way more than 70 Billion. We are talking trillions for a mars base.
@JamesAllenMaxey @peterrhague I was, I suppose, using post-scarcity in the Star Trek sense. Where the jar of coffee you pick up is incredibly cheap, because no-one in the currently huge supply chain needed to be paid a wage so they could eat.
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