He read that in an Iain Banks novel. That guy has just completely lost touch with reality. But sure, let’s give him a trillion bucks. What could possibly go wrong.

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    In the Culture novels robots assigned to this task have super accelerated consciousness, beyond human cognitive capabilities and can basically harmlessly stop you with a force field if you do anything to attempt to harm another person. Can Elmo’s bots do any of that? Not even close.

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      I think the plan is that the team of human handlers that control the robot will step in and stop a felon from breaching their conditions.

      The robot is just theatre to help prop up Tesla’s share price.

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      Elmo’s robots are barely able to walk

      I’ve seen student projects that were more impressive than his shit, let alone (for example) the (honestly scary) Boston Dynamics bots

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        fwiw, data centres aren’t a problem.

        Techbros are the problem.

        For example - water cooling has been used in data centres since the 70s, and more commonly in the last 15 years but always as a closed loop, the water just transports heat away to a heat exchanger then is cycled again.

        Techbros - nah, we’ll just let the water capture the heat then dump it into sewer, taking in fresh water constantly.

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      For now they can close an oven door in 5 minutes top, with a remote operator from Pakistan.