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    The clanker is nowhere near autonomous and requires a human operator to both a) generate any sort of functionality and b) generate training data so that one day the clanker can learn servitude on its own. To own this, you gotta be enough of a creep to let people record the inside of your home and use it to train a product. I don’t see this process happening without the operators seeing some sick shit. BYOG, basically (be your own goatse)

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      Punishing my teleoperators because they dont walk with their head bowed enough.

      (Anyone else noticed that in the promo vids?)

      Also the wsj vid title. ‘the first’ are we really going to do this again? Call every new robot the first?

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        Punishing my teleoperators because they dont walk with their head bowed enough.

        Feels like something you do to disempower eunuchs that have grown a little too cocky. Of course, this just leads to more scheming while you feel secure in having humiliated them. Just all around not something I recommend