alt Hacker News> The desire for humanoid robots is purely aesthetic and almost certainly suboptimal
Based on what? Do you think humans evolved into what we are based purely on aesthetic? Of course it may be suboptimal, but given enough time and ingenuity, so could literally everything be. Not sure that should stop anyone.
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Jtarii • yesterday at 9:51 PM
>Do you think humans evolved into what we are based purely on aesthetic
A modern house is a very different environment to the savannas of Africa.
Humans are def not designed optimally to live and work in a modern house or office. Don’t confuse “survived better than other animals in the Savannah 200 000 years ago” with modern env.