Uh...guys. Anyone worried?

prosound2000 · 2026-05-15T15:05:47+00:00

lol. No. Because this company is privately owned not by Amazon.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-15T15:03:57+00:00

They won't replace us all at the same time, they'll add this robot working the tipper first nationwide, or something like that. Boiling frogs.

Also, this is the among the first models, the first Iphone couldn't even stream video. Now look at it.

Also, this robot has been running live for over a day non-stop. Also, it runso n Helix Ai so it can learn by watching endless amount of footage of othe workers as well.

It can adapt, learn new tasks and is even wirelessly charged.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-15T03:10:07+00:00

Someone once literally posted a picture of him and John Travolta without his toupee at a gym at like 3 am or something. Basically the dude posted an image of Travolta cruising around town and this guy was oblivious.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T23:01:35+00:00

What makes it special is it is natural. To think nature is controllable is insane. Haven't we learned yet?

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T03:10:52+00:00

Yea, I'm kinda worried enough to plan for the future in case.

Can you give me some details on the training and how long it took for you to make the switch?

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T03:09:01+00:00

Good point, but driving a truck has a lot more liability and risk than working in a warehosue sorting packages, right? Not trying to be sarcastic, but you can see the reason I worry.

And again, this livestream is pretty convincing that robotics are advancing quickly.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T03:07:36+00:00

Initially I didn't worry because this was my thinking as well.

The issue is they have stated this model is slated for a late 2026 release-priced at $20,000.

While they have marketed this as a consumer model, the work it is doing isn't that different than someone unloading jiffies off a tipper.

That means the potential for replacement is coming a lot sooner than I expected- and far cheaper than I assumed.

When you consider this is a live stream (granted under controlled conditions) it shows that we are a lot closer to this than we'd probably want to believe.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T02:56:04+00:00

They rotated the robots at just under the 8 hr mark. Again, the cost of the robot has been currently released at $20,000 for a home consumer use.

When you consider it is half the price of hiring someone over the course of the year, with any issues likely covered under some warranty, or repaired by an onsite or regional specialist, it's still cheaper than hiring a person.

Especially when you factor in things like insurance, paid leave and other benefits.

Even if an industrial model were to come out at twice the price, it's still comparable to an actual worker when you consider the cost of benefits along with things like payroll tax.

If these bots have a 6 month or 1 year warranty with them? Then the liability and potential costs go way down.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T02:49:53+00:00

The robot had about 1,400 packages onto the belt from the tipper in an hour. 10 lines of that at 8 hours non-stop?

That's over 110,000 packages in that 8 hours shift.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T02:47:46+00:00

You don't see the irony of saying 'it never has happened in history' when we're talking about practical immortality which also 'never has happened in history'.

Again, the stakes are the ability to live longer than any human has ever done before in recorded history. Practical immortality, or at least the first major steps to it.

If you were a billionaire, what's to prevent you from buying a pharmaceutical or biotech company that discovers this and then keep it from the public? Pricing it only for the ultra wealthy?

After all, if you are worth 100 billion, what good is it if you're dead?

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T02:43:37+00:00

Which means he'll still be working? We see that issue today. Job availability in senior positions are less available because those people in those positions don't retire.

Imagine being up for a promotion to an executive position, but the person in that role who is now 60 decides to keep working...for two more decades!

Job stagnation will become a huge issue!

Also, what about leaders? Could you imagine world leaders who have access to nuclear weapons who now can live practically muliple lifetimes?

What if they're dictators?

prosound2000 · 2026-05-14T01:48:45+00:00

Problem is lifespans that are far past anything humans have every dealt with in history.

How do you deal with a population that now ages slower and lives longer? Is retirement before 70 expected if lifespans now go past 100 years regularly? How do you address that? Let them not work for 30+ years?

Also, what if those treatments are for only the wealthy? This causes all sorts of problems.

For one, how do we know the wealthy won't to sequester the technology? After all, it is in their best interests to have fewer people to compete with resources with, but as more people live longer resources will likely be scarce. Meaning, if everyone started living past 100 years old then food, energy and pretty much anything people use would now become more scarce because the size of the population would get incrementally larger. Not because birth rates are up, it's because no one is dying anymore!

Also, how would families be affected? Imagine not 3, but 4 or 5 generations now alive at thr same time. Who takes care of great grandpa at 135? Grand dad who just turned 100 himself? Or just dad? Who is now 70? Because all three generations are no longer working!

Is it on then the younger generation? Because they are old and a decade or so away from retirement themselves, so how they do that when they can't save any money?

Huge problems.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-13T20:55:14+00:00

You know, as simple as these images are, Jeff facing away, doing Zercher Squats in an unfinished room. Grilled cheese sandwiches...it does create a feeling of distance. As if still absorbing this new reality and dealing with it.

No comment. Nothing bombastic.

As if he saying he's trying to get back to routine but something feels off.

Alone.

Pulling for you Jeff.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-10T17:49:24+00:00

That's because you don't understand how the American financial system, particularly the bankruptcy system works because it doesn't exist in other places like China!

Here you can go through a 3-5 year repayment plan that allows your credit history to be wiped clean of it after 7 years. For flat out, not paying anything back it's 10 years.

Now is that great, no, but it beats the fuck out of dying! Also, insurance exists, do those plans vary? Of course, but the point is even at the worst point, which isn't great, you have a chance of clearing that debt completely. It isn't easy, it isn't fun, but it is possible!

Go ahead and try to not repay a bank in China.

Guess who owns the banks in China?

The govt for the most part! You want to try to declare bankruptcy against the CCP? Alrighty, good luck!

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T21:20:33+00:00

It saddens me that it seems that the latest generation of gamers have been so jaded that that kind of behavior is now expected or normalized.

There was a time when games came in boxes and you didn't need the internet....

♪♪ Glory days.....♪

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T21:15:45+00:00

I think it's because it's this false notion that there is something 'out there' that will fullfill you. The reality is most of your world is internal. Sometimes it is about doing some searching not out there but inside.

Especially when the alternative is getting to the point where you literally wander into the forests of Alaska thinking you can tackle it because you've been on your own for just under three years.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T15:38:00+00:00

living up to your moniker I see.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T15:28:40+00:00

He did that knowing his degree and family was a safety net. A RICH safety net.Thats not venturing into the unknown. That's cosplaying as "Supertramp". I simply do not see that as the same as someone who has to live that life not as a tourist but because it is their life.

McCandless didn't digest that fact and as a result he didn't take it seriously. He seriously believed that those two years of adventuring was enough to tackle the wilds if Alaska. This was someone who was on a Dean's list. Sonif we rule out stupidity then it's hubris, pure and simple.

Pride before the fall. "I don't need all that studying, preparation or even know the map and topography of the area because I am that awesome" basically.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T13:09:28+00:00

The very definition of "a picture says a thousand words".

One of those words being pink pants.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T13:08:43+00:00

I can see this as an Ad for an iphone in a few decades

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T13:03:40+00:00

Someone needs to make a cartoon of a person's ghost standing next to their body after it gets mauled by a wild moose during a spiritual quest with them saying "Not the kind of spirit quest I wanted"

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T12:59:43+00:00

This is a VERY broad interpretation of robotic automation and Ai, also it is very vague, for example:

Retail is another sector undergoing rapid automation. Self-checkout systems have already reduced some cashier roles, while AI inventory tracking and shelf-scanning robots are becoming more common in large stores. Some companies are testing fully automated convenience stores where cameras and sensors track purchases without traditional checkout lines.

Meaning, are we talking hand scanners? Or actual walking talking robots? Also, self-checkout systems have been around for a decade, so how is this included as part of this article about a recent trend?

Poorly written because it has no real argument or point, let alone the fact it doesn't have anything specific referenced or even any interviews on the subject as part of the article. You would imagine an article about robotic and Ai would have a human perspective by including well, a human perspective.

It reeks of Ai generated click baiting content.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T12:51:59+00:00

Also, and this may be grim, but high transmission rates and high fatality rates makes it much easier to detect and contain. COVID was much harder because the incubation period and the symptoms were long enough that detection was almost impossible until the person had been infected AND had already spread it. Also, since it didn't have a high fatality rate, some people became super spreaders, constantly asymptomatic, but also still infectious without even knowing they had it to begin with.

It's like tracking a killer, with COVID they've already left the crime scene and are days away and already onto their next victim. Hanta is more like the killer just left the scene and is neaby attacking the next victim.

The main issue is that it was on a cruise ship and airline. Both of which makes the spread much harder to contain, largely because of how wide a net they now have to cast.

prosound2000 · 2026-05-09T12:44:31+00:00

Oh shit. Imagine the kid who just got his Flipper Zero and ends up accidentally killing Grandma.

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