The problem with killer robots is that make very easy to "sell" a new war against another innocent country: if none of your "boys" will die, then why not start a new war?
I think the fear of losing your own life or a relative's life make you think twice before going to kill small childrens in Irak.
Let me see: 20 men take 1 month to build a robot (20 man/month).
A robot works during 5 years (only a guess), generating employement for 120 man/month.
So, a robot take out 600 man/month (10 men during 5 years) during his entire life, and requires 140 man/month for building & maintenance. The net loss of work is equal to 460 man/month over 5 years, or 92 man/month every year.
You can play with this figures, but robots equals loss of jobs. If robots are more durable, the bigger the loss.
(Yea, english is not my mother language).
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In education we can see the same pattern ocurring in the society: overspecialization and outsourcing.
Students do only what they like the most and "outsource" any other task they doesn't like. This is a very good training for real life: instead of doing something by yourself, you get other better people do the work for you. As long as some students like writing papers (and getting paid for this), everyone is happy.
Now, to be really fair, I want the posibility of cheating in physical education. I can write very good, but I perform very badly at sports.
I don't know about USA, but every time I board a flight in Chile, I'm asked to provide a relative's name/phone/address just in case something bad happens. This is a information ID cannot produce.
But is up to me to decide what to do with me in case of accident of death. I must be free to choose.
Here in Chile we know very well what a policial state means. And trust me, living in such a state is very dangerous to your health and life, no matter what your politicial opinions are, and no matter what you do or don't.
Either I'm master of my life or a government's slave.
I do some programming, and every time I have to use a new-to-me technology (EJB, JMS, JNDI,...), so I routinely copy pieces of code from books, manual, on-line pages. I don't want to have to read 200+ pages just to know how to something accesory to the main task at hand.
I wonder if I'm guilty of copyrigth/patent violations for this practice. What if I include a code snippet in a comercial app?
My old Palm Pilot M100 run for months on two AAA batteries. My Olympus digital camera can take probably over 300 photos before recharging his four AA batteries. And I can replace their batteries in a few seconds.
My 6 months old Motorola just-plain cell phone, internal non-replacable battery, run just for 6 to 8 hours before starting beeping "low-charge".
Guess if I want to pack PDA, camera and phone in one single device.
Knowledge have a very short life span under Windows. Everything change with new versions. I'm not willing to spend months re-learning everything under Windows.
Under Linux knowledge is accumulable: everything you learn today serves you tomorrow.
With Linux I can spent my time learning new tricks. With Windows, I must spent my time re-learning the same basic tasks, time after time.
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I think the fear of losing your own life or a relative's life make you think twice before going to kill small childrens in Irak.
A robot works during 5 years (only a guess), generating employement for 120 man/month.
So, a robot take out 600 man/month (10 men during 5 years) during his entire life, and requires 140 man/month for building & maintenance. The net loss of work is equal to 460 man/month over 5 years, or 92 man/month every year.
You can play with this figures, but robots equals loss of jobs. If robots are more durable, the bigger the loss.
(Yea, english is not my mother language).
Students do only what they like the most and "outsource" any other task they doesn't like. This is a very good training for real life: instead of doing something by yourself, you get other better people do the work for you. As long as some students like writing papers (and getting paid for this), everyone is happy.
Now, to be really fair, I want the posibility of cheating in physical education. I can write very good, but I perform very badly at sports.
I don't know about USA, but every time I board a flight in Chile, I'm asked to provide a relative's name/phone/address just in case something bad happens. This is a information ID cannot produce. But is up to me to decide what to do with me in case of accident of death. I must be free to choose. Here in Chile we know very well what a policial state means. And trust me, living in such a state is very dangerous to your health and life, no matter what your politicial opinions are, and no matter what you do or don't. Either I'm master of my life or a government's slave.
I wonder if I'm guilty of copyrigth/patent violations for this practice. What if I include a code snippet in a comercial app?
My 6 months old Motorola just-plain cell phone, internal non-replacable battery, run just for 6 to 8 hours before starting beeping "low-charge".
Guess if I want to pack PDA, camera and phone in one single device.
Under Linux knowledge is accumulable: everything you learn today serves you tomorrow.
With Linux I can spent my time learning new tricks. With Windows, I must spent my time re-learning the same basic tasks, time after time.
(Yes, English is not my first language).