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Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot
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Flippy, the new burger-flipping robot was just rolled out by CaliBurger. It's a learning robot, suffused with AI, and can cook 150 hamburgers hourly.

I, for one, will eagerly welcome our new robot overlords. ;-)

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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If it can make a proper med-rare burger, then I too welcome our new robot overlord.

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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It's great. Soon all those working will be replaced by automation and at that point will it be the Govt's job to provide a minimum standard of comfort for all its citizens? Free cell phones/cable, two weeks of vacation, movie vouchers....The trade-off can't just be more unemployment can it?

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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jkca1 wrote:
It's great. Soon all those working will be replaced by automation and at that point will it be the Govt's job to provide a minimum standard of comfort for all its citizens? Free cell phones/cable, two weeks of vacation, movie vouchers....The trade-off can't just be more unemployment can it?

If I don't work, what do I need a vacation from?

Kind of like when my mother in law announced she was retiring. From what? You've never had an actual job. The shock for her was that she thought she was going to get social security even though she never had an above the board job. Oops.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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Does it wash its hands after going to the bathroom for an oil change?
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [rick_pcfl] [ In reply to ]
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Will it sexually harass newer robots or spit on cops' burgers?

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [rick_pcfl] [ In reply to ]
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rick_pcfl wrote:
Does it wash its hands after going to the bathroom for an oil change?

I'm sure it will learn to do that. ;-)

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [mck414] [ In reply to ]
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mck414 wrote:
Will it sexually harass newer robots or spit on cops' burgers?

Since the AI will have been supplied by a computer programmer - it will probably be awkward around female robots.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [rick_pcfl] [ In reply to ]
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Will most likely get fired for showering in the food prep sink -- and then posting the video to Robotbook.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [jkca1] [ In reply to ]
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jkca1 wrote:
It's great. Soon all those working will be replaced by automation and at that point will it be the Govt's job to provide a minimum standard of comfort for all its citizens? Free cell phones/cable, two weeks of vacation, movie vouchers....The trade-off can't just be more unemployment can it?

In the early 70's when working on my Psychology undergrad I had a course called something like "Psychology of Work". I remember the prof telling us that people on welfare were ahead of their time because someday robots will be flipping burgers, etc and nobody will have to work (he actually used that example). Of course he had this utopian view that we would all have this high living standard and lots of leisure time thanks to robots.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [mck414] [ In reply to ]
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mck414 wrote:
Will it sexually harass newer robots or spit on cops' burgers?

Great. Soon I will be defending McDonald's from a lawsuit brought by a sexually harassed toaster oven.

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [Perseus] [ In reply to ]
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Perseus wrote:

My theory about that silly movement is that as manufacturing and government (not necessarily federal, but state, local and municipal) jobs began to fall away during the Great Recession, these folks began to look at entry-level-job-type employers to pick up the slack and offer the kinds of wages, benefits and other perks that they would have enjoyed had they gone to work for blue collar manufacturers. They use some creative economics (voodoo and otherwise ;-) to make their case and when that doesn't work -- or when employers, reacting to the need to contain costs that are being forced up by local and state wage ordinances, start making staff reductions -- simply go straight to socialism and "guaranteed employment" or "guaranteed monthly wage" arguments, as if pronouncing such a thing so will automatically make it achievable and non-jobs-killing.

Mickey D's and the like are entry level jobs for a reason. They're not meant to provide a career (except in certain management cases) and they're not meant to be a long-term "situation," as they say in Britain. ;-)

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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big kahuna wrote:
Mickey D's and the like are entry level jobs for a reason. They're not meant to provide a career (except in certain management cases) and they're not meant to be a long-term "situation," as they say in Britain. ;-)

Exactly! Minimum wage is for kids and people without an education or work experience. If you have a pulse and show up on time you can get promoted.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [Perseus] [ In reply to ]
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Carlos Mencia has a good bit about Mexicans taking all the jobs, namely McDonalds. Pretty funny, I'll try to find it later.

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]
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One day humans will pay more for a burger knowing it was flipped by a real person.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [tri_kid] [ In reply to ]
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tri_kid wrote:
One day humans will pay more for a burger knowing it was flipped by a real person.

That wouldn't surprise me. Some guy was manually sharpening pencils and he had more work than he could handle.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [Perseus] [ In reply to ]
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Perseus wrote:
tri_kid wrote:
One day humans will pay more for a burger knowing it was flipped by a real person.


That wouldn't surprise me. Some guy was manually sharpening pencils and he had more work than he could handle.

Well, he deserves a nice 'tip' then.
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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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JSA wrote:
mck414 wrote:
Will it sexually harass newer robots or spit on cops' burgers?


Great. Soon I will be defending McDonald's from a lawsuit brought by a sexually harassed toaster oven.

The irony is that someone somewhere probably sexually identifies as a toaster oven.

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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [GreenPlease] [ In reply to ]
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GreenPlease wrote:
JSA wrote:
mck414 wrote:
Will it sexually harass newer robots or spit on cops' burgers?


Great. Soon I will be defending McDonald's from a lawsuit brought by a sexually harassed toaster oven.


The irony is that someone somewhere probably sexually identifies as a toaster oven.

Thank you for that. Marvelous.


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Re: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot [tri_kid] [ In reply to ]
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tri_kid wrote:
One day humans will pay more for a burger knowing it was flipped by a real person.

That'd be a good market-based solution right there to the question of higher wages for jobs that were never intended to provide career-level pay. ;-)

"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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