Hospital Robots

bluegreenone writes: "The Washington Post has an article about hospital robots. The most interesting part was hearing the robot's 'co-workers' describe their relationship with him." Only slightly scary.

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Let's look at this realistically...

[SkyLeach]

This bot takes over menial tasks...

In the world today we have millions of people with no job and no prospects, starving to death. They would gladly work their whole life doing this "menial job" for a tiny fraction of what this robot costs, eating barely anything and bless the ground you walked on for letting them do it.

But of course our highly advanced evolved society would never let another person live like that... if we have to see it. This is BS. Let's help each other help ourselves by using the wasted humanity on earth first, then worry about wasting resources on machines.

Forget this better-than-thou crap of saying that no person should work a menial job while turning our backs on people living a less-than-menial life which is far too short because they (pick one: starve, die of disease, get murdered because they are "useless" to the killers, etc...). Talk about double standards.

The United States is the most sparsely populated landmass in the world. We have plenty of room for people willing to immigrate and make their lives better. I'm not talking about slave labor; I'm talking about inexpensive labor.

But we all know that we will continue to live in a dream world perpetuated by clueless "enlightened" college graduates who would rather see starving third-world countries as a cause to bitch about than actually do anything about the situation.

I would also like to state for the record that I am not at all suggesting that we take the approach used by the Spanish conquistadors and barbarous English(tm) murderers and slavers who wanted to help other peoples by proselytizing and enslaving them. Give people a choice.