[bevekspldnw]

Yes this is my point - the home is a hard place to operate in but less potential for lethal outcomes. If we can solve home robotics I think cars would be easier.

Also, a robot that replaces a housekeeper would have a huge market. I’d pay a handsome sum to have perfectly cleaned kitchen and bathrooms every day when I wake up.

[pinkmuffinere]

For clarity, I’ll call out the areas where I think we disagree:

> “the home … [has] less potential for lethal outcomes.”

I don’t think this is true. Roads already have systems in place to make them safer, and people are aware of the dangers. This isn’t the case at home, and useful home robots certainly have the ability to cause serious injuries/deaths

> “If we can solve home robotics I think cars would be easier”

I also think cars are easier. However, I think this is _why_ we’ve made more progress towards solving self driving.

> “I’d pay a handsome sum to have perfectly cleaned kitchen and bathrooms every day when I wake up.”

When you say “perfectly cleaned rooms”, I think “better than you can get with a 90th percentile hired cleaner”. I suspect useful home robots might be 10 years out, but I’m doubtful we’ll get “perfectly cleaned rooms” from a commercial home robot and using the above criteria within even the next 50 years. Maybe controversial, but I think AGI might be easier, lol

[bevekspldnw]

My main thing with road safety is the presence of giant dangerous SUV which one has no control over. At least I can control what is or isn’t in my home, on the roads some asshole driving their Cybertruck at 40 mph over the limit will annihilate my hatchback. Point taken regardless, but I still worry more about cars than anything in my home.

Otherwise I have a small child in the house, so I’d be grateful for 1 percentile capability at the moment. ;-)

Thanks for your thoughts tho, I think we can agree future seems interesting at the least.