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by gwern 565 days ago
> I love thinking of this as such a wonderfully naive early 2000's view on HCI

Not really so naive when you look into 'robotic process automation' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation . Huge industry, and can be just moving a mouse around on a screen and triggering keyboard inputs. If robot hands were cheap and dexterous enough...