[turnsout]

I’m no Peter Thiel fan, but I love his critique of DOGE:

> I had a conversation with Elon a few weeks ago about this. He said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years. And I said: Well, if that’s true, you don’t need to worry about the budget deficits because we’re going to have so much growth, the growth will take care of this.

[IshKebab]

You mean you won't have to worry about the budget deficits because society will probably have collapsed.

[turnsout]

Right. I guess either way, dystopia or utopia, if we have 1B humanoid robots in 2035, literally no one will remember saving $10M by cutting one scientific grant program.

[dzhiurgis]

Ah yes society is made up of folding clothes and cleaning up after cooking.

[IshKebab]

And construction, retail, warehousing, mining, farming, social services, etc.

We aren't going to have 1 billion clothes folding robots.

[dzhiurgis]

Let's solve that first maybe?

Robot arm vacuums were just released few months ago. It can barely pick up socks and some types of slippers. There's still a long way to folding clothes.

[IshKebab]

Folding clothes is notorious as one of the most difficult tasks. It will probably be solved last.