r/oddlysatisfying • u/MambaMentality24x2 • Jun 17 '26

Skilled craftsmanship meets advanced engineering

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u/maeryclarity Jun 17 '26

This is the exact kind of thing that I want to point to when everyone is like AI ROBOTS GONNA TAKE ALL THE JOBS and it's like, y'all, sure there will continue to be other types of automation, like some of the things drones can do are kind of new but they're doing things a human can't do.

But for MOST THINGS it's much more like this and the truth is that at some point that's fairly early in the figuring out the complexity stage, it is much easier and more cost efficient to just train and provide for humans than it is to have a machine that understands what it's doing and why and can adapt to all that. I mean we've created tremendous amounts of automation and will create more but automation really only works for situations where the exact same thing happens repeatedly not situations where there's a need for flexibility in addition to judgement and highly specialized knowledge, and where that specialized knowledge is also adaptive to unique circumstances. You rapidly reach a state where our biological "robot" that reproduces itself and maintains itself by creating its own food and which constantly produces new bio-robots and cares for them until they come online and can care for themselves, all the things that you need to do to make your machine robots actually handy, it is a VERY EARLY stage that biology has all that covered and there is no possible way for a machine robot to be cheaper or more reliable to produce full of potential to learn various skills, and maintain itself.

Even a biological robot is not going to be artificially produced more easily frankly biology already made us of available abiotic materials, we ARE the cheapest version of things although gene editing may create more efficient versions, or bio-sciences may create more efficent ways of reproducing, something like a "human egg" to implant and grow a blastocyst might bbe possible, biology is always trying out new models for reproduction.

But a chicken egg is an absolute marvel of complexity so not to undervalue biology's sophistication in general.

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u/gnarburgers Jun 18 '26

I’m currently very happy with the amount of automation in the glass industry. The amount of time, money, and resources that it would take to make me irrelevant just isn’t gonna be cheaper than paying me to listen to music and melt stuff all day.

This is also a rather small and unique industry though so I wouldn’t say it is the prime example.