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2019/10/26 20:29:34
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Having worked in a Nursing Home for a year (nursing home is where you go when you can’t get yourself to the toilet without help) I would whole-heartedly agree.
My notions on right-to-choose are formed from that experience. That robot would be alright in my book.
Further, I love the idea of robots helping those with dementia and the like. As a former caregiver to people I wasn’t related to, there were days where I was phoning it in. When telling Betty her (dead) husband was just out milking the cows and would be back for dinner (covers both lunch and supper, whichever Betty had in mind) just sucked the life out of me. Empathy robots are unlikely to develop fatigue, or boredom, or sense of pointlessness. This wasn’t everyday, of course, or even many days. But sometimes my care was less than perfect. I’ll be honest, after Miriam asks you to come closer and then she pulls her leg up to her chest and heel kicks you right in the side of the head (because all of a sudden I was her bad-touch uncle) it’s pretty tough to pull yourself up off the floor and try to care for a lady that’s trying to get out of her bed to finish the job.
With robotic assistance, caregivers could be more involved with care beyond sustaining existence. They could help to make existence into living.
2019/10/26 21:30:26
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
greatbigtree wrote: Having worked in a Nursing Home for a year (nursing home is where you go when you can’t get yourself to the toilet without help) I would whole-heartedly agree.
My notions on right-to-choose are formed from that experience. That robot would be alright in my book.
Further, I love the idea of robots helping those with dementia and the like. As a former caregiver to people I wasn’t related to, there were days where I was phoning it in. When telling Betty her (dead) husband was just out milking the cows and would be back for dinner (covers both lunch and supper, whichever Betty had in mind) just sucked the life out of me. Empathy robots are unlikely to develop fatigue, or boredom, or sense of pointlessness. This wasn’t everyday, of course, or even many days. But sometimes my care was less than perfect. I’ll be honest, after Miriam asks you to come closer and then she pulls her leg up to her chest and heel kicks you right in the side of the head (because all of a sudden I was her bad-touch uncle) it’s pretty tough to pull yourself up off the floor and try to care for a lady that’s trying to get out of her bed to finish the job.
With robotic assistance, caregivers could be more involved with care beyond sustaining existence. They could help to make existence into living.
That is a much more pleasant picture. The robot to care for day to day living needs, and human care assistants more focused on providing companionship.
I imagine it’s a common complaint in most health care professions, but many days it did feel like we, the caregivers, only had enough time to be life support systems, and not much more. Some residents had trouble eating, for example. Or vocalizing. Some were relatively young (50’s, say) with sharp minds but suffering from multiple sclerosis, for example. Their bodies had failed, but their minds were still healthy. To have so little companionship through the day while the PSW’s and Nurse’s Aides (PSW without a ticket) were busy spending extra time with persons that were time-intensive to care for, but mostly “not-there”.
Simple things, and laborious things like turning residents once or twice a night to avoid bedsores. A robot able to lift the sheets beneath a resident and gently rock a person from one side to the other is safer for the resident (firmly grabbing a resident can bruise skin, or even tear it with enough force). It’s safer for the workers, particularly with heavy residents. I threw my back out one day and had back spasms for 3 days. Quite painful... in the brief periods I was conscious. As an automated process, there is a low risk of a person being missed. When a worker calls in sick, if you’re on a two-person shift you can’t safely do many of the transfers (between bed and chair, or bed to port-oilet, for example). We had a woman that we needed a crane, and two workers to move about. She’d had a stroke, and was paralyzed on the one side of her body. Well over 400 lbs (not judging, just the facts) without mechanical assistance we couldn’t have moved her. Even if the robot knows to stop when someone says “ow!” And to then call a person to sort things out, many of the life support functions, like a transfer to a toilet could be done more safely for the resident by providing more than one point of lift. (Under the armpit, for example). A robot can effectively have as many “arms” as would be necessary to support under each arm, provide handholds for the resident, support the knees so they don’t give way mid-transfer... even potentially a butt-lift to help support folks with inflexible spines (lifting under the arms puts strain through the spine, particularly if only lifting under one side).
And a simple conversation scheme for dementia patients. A person with dementia doesn’t understand reality. They’re usually within a memory. They usually just need (constant) reassurance that they’re ok, and if they’re worried about something or someone, that that is also ok. It can be downright fatiguing for a person to provide that wrote reply, to keep the resident content. With machine learning, the robot could possibly catch clues to the nature of the memory and anticipate a response better than a human could.
And rather than having a steady flow of different workers try to learn somene’s habits, the robot could keep records and notice changes in behaviour or food consumption. Ie: when Karen eats the broiled broccoli, she experiences gas pains. Something a worker might not notice, given the number of residents and the food schedule, and their own schedule not matching up with Brocoli night for 3 months at a time.
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2019/10/29 21:53:53
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Long as there's a good reason for them to have escaped in the first place...
They installed a boardwalk that led to another ventilation pipe that the ants could use to escape the bunker. A year later, they returned to the site to find the colony had almost completely vanished.
oh good
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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2019/11/13 09:34:43
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2019/11/13 10:47:56
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Although officials in the Marshallese government have requested assistance from the US, the American authorities have said the dome is on their land and is therefore their responsibility.
Have you not seen the movies/books where shady organizations try to weaponize monsters? Of course they do!
How could they continue the trend of learning nothing from science fiction if they don't?
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2019/11/17 01:37:31
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Man, that entire situation is purely a malicious screwjob by our government. I hope someone got a giant gold star for brainstorming that exit strategy.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
2019/11/17 08:47:32
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
I assume it's a massive game of kick the can which has become more of a game of Hot Potato with mutagens. Whatever administration took over and saw that fiasco did their best to pass the buck to the next person.
Well, yeah...but more than that this time we managed to saddle an entirely separate country/indigenous culture with our radioactive garbage, for free, without them knowing about it.
And then after they found out about it, we pretty much completely shrugged and washed our hands of it to the claim of "current owner beware", it's not our problem anymore.
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
2019/11/18 05:08:08
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2019/11/26 22:28:10
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
All things being equal, it’s not *just* Musk’s satellites up there.
And, at this moment, what good would knowing an asteroid will hit the Earth do? We would all have time to practice yoga, so we could kiss our own asses good bye?
2019/11/26 22:31:55
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
If we can spot an asteroid soon, Bruce Willis will still be young enough to just get on a rocketship, head out there, and be mean and bald at it, till it goes away
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
2019/11/27 10:29:39
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Which severely limits the aperture of the telescope. That isn't a solution.
Remember the Black Hole image snapped by the Event Horizon team? That required synchronous observations from multiple observatories around the world, with the distances between those observatories known to an incredible degree of precision. Trying to do that in orbit exponentially increases the difficulty of such an observation, introducing special and general relativistic effects which differ between the observatories, there's bandwidth issues (the hard drives storing the data for the Event Horizon picture were physically collected as it was quicker than transfer of the data over the internet, we're talking about 5 petabytes of data which is 5,000,000 times lager than a Gigabyte), there's the difficulty of fixing the telescope if something goes wrong etc.
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2019/12/04 08:28:28
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2019/12/09 08:09:56
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
..so when the uprising begins you'll simply be murdered in your sleep.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2019/12/09 22:31:25
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Ah. That's far less creepy than I first imagined (some extra weird kind of memory foam).
On the other side of the pillow, though, the fan is probably really obnoxious and there's no bloody reason at all to stick the controls in a phone app.
Its also really obvious that if the duvet isn't in right position/orientation, it'll just fall off the bed as the air fills it.
As someone who's really restless and moves covers around, this would be utterly useless to me.
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2019/12/09 22:42:21
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Voss wrote: Ah. That's far less creepy than I first imagined (some extra weird kind of memory foam).
On the other side of the pillow, though, the fan is probably really obnoxious and there's no bloody reason at all to stick the controls in a phone app.
Its also really obvious that if the duvet isn't in right position/orientation, it'll just fall off the bed as the air fills it.
As someone who's really restless and moves covers around, this would be utterly useless to me.
I've actually found that securing the bottom end of a duvet actually helps a lot in keeping it on the bed without it flopping all over the place even as you move whilst asleep. Of course because you've pinned the bottom end down I find you do have to "snug" back a few extra inches because you can't pull the sheets forward over you.
And I agree, that "auto bed maker" will clearly only work if you've taken time to secure things almost straight anyway. Ok for light sleepers, but not really a revolution. I do wonder if the heated feature makes a difference over a super quiet electric blanket (which you can also have set one different each side).
Voss wrote: Ah. That's far less creepy than I first imagined (some extra weird kind of memory foam).
On the other side of the pillow, though, the fan is probably really obnoxious and there's no bloody reason at all to stick the controls in a phone app.
Its also really obvious that if the duvet isn't in right position/orientation, it'll just fall off the bed as the air fills it.
As someone who's really restless and moves covers around, this would be utterly useless to me.
I've actually found that securing the bottom end of a duvet actually helps a lot in keeping it on the bed without it flopping all over the place even as you move whilst asleep. Of course because you've pinned the bottom end down I find you do have to "snug" back a few extra inches because you can't pull the sheets forward over you.
I honestly can't sleep that way. Having my feet pinned down by tucked-in sheets or a secured end of a duvet drives me nuts. First thing I do when I get into a bed is yank all that loose. Keeping covers on the bed is never a problem, but I build some pretty impressive nests out of my covers while partially asleep.
The idea of heated blankets also makes my skin crawl. Wouldn't trust it, wouldn't want it. Would rather a cold room and a pile of blankets rather than something warmed on top of me. Just... eurgh.
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2020/01/10 18:40:16
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
... suspect the word "may" is doing a lot of lifting here.
.. Props to the dolphins for understanding complex social and economic theory though, personally I've never trusted them as one should never trust anything that smiles that much.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2020/01/10 19:15:56
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
It should be Killer Communist Dolphins. The other way implies the dolphins are meant to kill commies.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
The xenobots could potentially be used toward a host of tasks, according to the study, which was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use.
bound to end well eh ?
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2020/01/16 00:00:11
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
The xenobots could potentially be used toward a host of tasks, according to the study, which was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use.
bound to end well eh ?
Considering it's also designed by an AI?
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