This assumes the customer has a clear vision and doesn't need help with not creating logical paradoxes within their own business model.

The old gamedev wisdom is: ask your players what feels wrong, but not what the solution should be.

"Listen to your customers, but ignore what they say"

I want a meal assembled by a professional chef, not a machine that chops food at my dumbass requests.

If you mean panspermia specifically in respect to earth it's a lot more bounded in space and time to the parts that were close enough to interact with earth, but if not then yes there is probably anything that can be represented by atoms out there somewhere or other.

Wouldn't it be ironic if AI is the best way to manage a socialist society and they start building it on their own.

This seems like an expansion on something I was getting my agent to do which is use 'cards' to communicate using things like tables, rather than the ascii table stuff Claude code likes to do.

Unsure if this has been done already but the best thing I did was get it to create a list of next steps as quick buttons that it keeps updated in a docked card. It works well but occasionally gets stuck on some un related rabbit hole.

> They are limited to the sensor's margin of error, range and trusting it's working correctly

So are we and our sensors can be pretty vague in comparison, I can only imagine human error correction is pretty next level.

I agree with the sentiment but I can absolutely see a long chain of thought about something innocuous ending with a decision to book you a hotel room.. I guess --dangerously-skip-permissions is a bit like ignoring the keep your hands on the steering wheel alert but for life.

For me a loan would be far more stressful than fixing a 20 year old car, but I have worked for myself for 15 years so my priorities are probably skewed

On the one hand you need any lathe to build a good lathe, even a bad one. On the other, that is a potentially flawed principle to base the entire future of AI on.

Given its form factor there is already a ton of active research into developments that would be just about plug and play. Hands with coordination for example.

True. Physical capabilities can be added with ease. The actual problem isn't the actuators anymore, though. Very useful for a remote controlled puppet ala "Surrogates" (the film), still not quite there yet when it comes to performing even simple tasks autonomously.

Emptying a washing machine located in the cellar/basement, taking the clothes to a room on the ground floor, folding and sorting them before putting them in the closet still is quite the challenge.

Wirelessly hooking such robot up to a data centre running heavy machine learning models isn't a proper solution either, because in contrast to digital agents, latency matters quite a bit in physical interactions.

Freedom to decide? Not that humanity is historically great at deciding what brings itself happiness.

Humanity or humans? Individual humans could, but as a collective we make stupid choices.

Humans are quite bad at doing what brings them (durable) happiness

As a collective we make no choices.