[spwa4]

Let's be honest: people want humanoids because half the world was used to "domestic servants" (ie. slaves) (and even is, middle east, Pakistan, India, large parts of Africa) and they can't have that because colonialism "took that from them".

What people keep forgetting is that colonialism, and with it the large-scale disappearance of slavery, and so the disappearance of domestic servants/slaves, lasted easily into the 1990s. You don't have to be very old to remember having that (or you cheat, ie. rich middle eastern countries, and still have that in 2026, just called slightly different)

[ben_w]

"Domestic servant" is much broader than slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_worker#Varieties_of_d...

Everything from baby monitors to roombas (and the lawn equivalents) to frozen pizzas to self-driving cars to mobility scooters (replacing palanquins) to dishwashers and washing machines and tumble driers, have been chipping away at the list of tasks for which domestic servants used to be hired.

People want humanoids for the same reason they want flying cars: sci-fi made them look cooler than they would be in real life.

("I want a flying car!" / "We have a flying car at home" / The flying car at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter; vs "I want Brent Spiner's Data" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvbiU_usQfE)