it's kind of a critique of the three laws of robotics. it's main point is the effect that those laws would have on the people living alongside robots governed by them. the primary issue it points out with the 3 laws is basically that if people have an abundance or free labor that is strictly bound to do everything for them and protect them from all harm then they basically become slaves to their own servants (the books use that phrasing, probably because the characters narrating don't see robotic labor as slavery). they're not the best books I've ever read but I think they make a really good point about how ai/robots should be governed and about what the difference between one of those and a person even is (or rather if there is one at all, save for the three laws), and they are decent just not the best.

you should read roger macbride Allen's caliban series

hopefully this goes through and all of the ai vc sink companies collapse and take their founders with them

theres a one piece keyboard and a one piece touchpad, but they still come off pretty easily which you wouldn't want in a beefier version.

I meant reduced modularity for the sake of increased durability, because the keyboard and touchpad modules on the fw 16 are more liable to come loose and let dust in. the 13 would just need a new chassis, but I was talking about the 16.

I'd like a beefier fw16 chassis option to exist, but I would probably get the current one. also if they want to make it stronger like that it'll probably need to be less modular too, at least so far as the keyboard and touchpad area goes. would be nice to offer as an enterprise-focused thing though, like for companies to use as company laptops or in industrial areas.

I don't hate AI as a technology/tool. I hate cloud-based and corporation driven/controlled AI. I hate that companies are shoving it down our throats and implementing it in the least useful and most destructive ways possible.

if I could get (for a reasonable price) a computer powerful enough to actually use some light agentic ai locally I could probably find a bunch of shit it would be genuinely helpful for. however, due to the current state of it all you can really do in most cases is rip off art or almost get a straight answer on a simple question, and it always goes through a massive datacenter halfway across the country (or globe, depending on where you are).

forgot that part

1. we just learned how to make them fairly recently
2. expensive to build
3. expensive to run
4. fucking massive if powerful enough to be useful

I watch subbed because the dub is almost always shit. only problem with that is the subbed voice acting tends to be a lot hornier