I think men are too stupid to build robots

Such tasks are made for intelligent women, men have the IQ of a caveman and should do the dirty work or play, ´cause they´re just children with an adult body.

I predict that all important inventions of the future will be made by women, men are obsolete today.

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Nathalie Hutt
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Sometimes.

Ah HA! And what, exactly, is tinkering around with useless things, other than play? It's this perpetual childhood playfulness and curiosity that results in so many inventions and scientific discoveries by men. Women (in my experience) are practical. If they cannot see an advantage to doing something, they won't consider it. Men will do whatever comes to mind first. Thus you have Volta dangling severed frog legs outside during a thunderstorm. I'll grant you the fact that most playing around by men has absolutely zero value, but sometimes it pays off.

I must have missed a major event that reversed our roles, then. If the past is any indication, men will continue to tinker around with everything while women will stay focused on tasks at hand. Women will refine and implement new technology, but men will more or less blunder into the big discoveries. I honestly know very very few women in engineering who are in it mostly for the fun it of, rather than for the career opportunity.

Yes, I fed the troll. I felt like it. ;-)

Reply to
Garrett Mace

Sigh....

Just like my ex, starting a fight just for the attention and the makeup sex...

chris > Such tasks are made for intelligent women, men have the IQ of a

Reply to
chris

Why should the future be any different to the past? Look around you and practically every you see was invented by a man...

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Neil Durant

Reply to
James M. Devine

Although in this case, there is no sex in line as far as we know.

Maybe "newsgroup" sex? ;-)

Reply to
Guillaume

Nathalie Hutt bored us with:

$5 says you're a man at heart...

WTH;)

Reply to
WTH

[Zagan] Evidence?

None? Gee, I wonder why?

Are you on your period, or suffering PMS? Seems likely.

// Jim

Reply to
Zagan

The story of Frankenstien, or of robotics, is one of womb-envy. ;-)

Reply to
Jeff Fox

How do you figure that? Do you know who the author of Frankenstien was? No womb envy there.

Reply to
Randy M. Dumse

You might have something there. Certainly when you see a prize being offered to make a robot vehicle that can travel between Barstow and Las Vegas, instead of for example a domestic house cleaning robot that can also fix meals and do the dishes one has to wonder what the priorities are. A cruise missile does an excellent job of flying to its' target, using a combination of data from inertial and GPS navigation systems. But of course that is in the air without little rocks and ruts a ground vehicle can fall over.. My company assembles a gated shutter 3-D optical scanner that can be set in position then will proceed to map all distances to objects within a given volume with a resolution of less than a fraction of an inch. Placed on a mobile powered platform, for example, using the IBOT chassis

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the scanner mounted on top it could map out the interior of a home without difficulty, thus providing data for navigation within the house. Some waldo designs borrowed from nuclear labs for picking and placing objects, with motorized extension and retraction, under computer control after initial training of for example fixing a meal, collecting, and cleaning dishes, and one could have the beginnings of a useful domestic robot.

Men continue to misunderstand the amount of labor that goes into keeping house and raising a family. Perhaps it will indeed take a woman to build the first universal useful robots...

Reply to
Robert Mockan

The 'story' of Dr. Frankenstien and his creation was one of a man wanting to create life. In a discussion of Young Frankenstien the filmmaker, Mel Brooks, made the comment that it is a story about womb-envy. Since women have wombs where human life is created a short description of men's desires to create life though engineering is womb-envy. Sure Mary Shelly was not suffering from womb-envy, but the character she created sure was. (And, I did use a smiley. ;-)

Maybe a better response to this thread would be the question, are robots too stupid to build men, or just not stupid enough? ;-)

Best Wishes

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Jeff Fox

"Makeup sex?" What's that? My ex loved to fight to get attention, but there was NO MAKEUP SEX! (Sigh) Ripped off again!

Reply to
RatliffGrp

From your post I can rule out at least one woman from the possible multitudes who will one day rule over us men while inventing everything of worth. Absolutely we are obsolete! After all, what do we do anymore? I mean if you discount philosophy, religion, science, education, governing, enforcing laws, entertaining, creating artwork, supplying half of the genetics of children, manufacturing, etc., we are some lazy bastards, huh? Note that women can do all of these things and in fact do many of them, but then I never said that women are obsolete child-idiots in adult bodies. As to children with adult bodies, one might argue that either that is good since children have not lost their imaginations, or that women are more childlike since an aspect of acting adult is controlling one's emotions. I prefer to think that each individual is different, and therefore women and men are about equally idiotic and childlike on the whole. I predict that someone will laugh at you in the near future. I guarantee you that someone has laughed at you in the recent past.

Reply to
Seth Koster

Hmm. Multitudes of women ruling over me. Cool.

+brw
Reply to
Bennet Williams

Jeff, you may have a good point there. At one time in the past, when New Micros, Inc. was in its start up phase, I worked very long hours. Many people told me to slow down and relax. I wondered if olympic atheletes are told by their friends to relax? Are concert violinists told to relax? And are mothers ever told to ignore their children and relax?

So I came on the idea of finding a suitable motherhood book. Copy it, replacing all reference to "mother" with "entrepreneur" and "child" with business. I'm sure it would be the kind of revealing hit that would make the best seller lists as a tremendous insight into the minds of men, bent on the power of "creating" their companies or projects, with the same intensity that mothers have for their children.

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Randy M. Dumse

After investing a decade of time and money to produce custom chips for AI and robotics I borrowed the term 'mind children' from Hans Morovec and refered to the chips as my children. When I heard Mel Brooks make the joke about 'womb envy' as a description of the story of Dr. Frankenstien and his obsession with creating life it resonated with me. I suppose the idea does also resonate with anyone going through all the effort to take something from a mere idea and give birth to it and nurture its development.

BTW. You have some really nice new products at New Micros. I hope other people have checked out your website to see their new options.

Best Wishes

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Jeff Fox

And somewhere around the time of 04/09/2004 22:51, the world stopped and listened as Nathalie Hutt contributed the following to humanity:

Problem is that women generally don't have that "out of the box" creativity that men do. As for your child reference...Yep, I can agree to that.

Um...No.

Remember, without a man, YOU wouldn't be here, and neither would the rest of us.

Reply to
Daniel Rudy

I think I'm inclined to agree. I've spent nearly 3 years designing this bipedal 'thing', the domain name has been renewed but never used, all I have are lots of very clever mechanisms which don't quite join together to form a cohesive whole.

I think my problem is that I start designing at the knees (limited space, awkward shape, 20 ft.lbs req'd) then spread out. By the time I reach the fingertips I have invariably found a better lever system or a better motor and want to apply it to the knees. The enemy of a good idea is a better idea, round and round I go in ever decreasing circles.

Perhaps I should ask myself, "How would a woman escape this loop?"

best regards

Robin G Hewitt

Reply to
Robin G Hewitt

. I've spent nearly 3 years designing this

Join the club. I also have loads of unfinished subsystems and prototypes scattered all over the workshop. Still, even Leonardo did that, so it's probably nothing to be ashamed of. It's just always annoying when you keep coming up with better ways to build things before finishing the last attempt, and end up with a huge heap of junk.

If you do figure out a way of breaking the loop, please share it!

Tom

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Tom McEwan

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