A fundamental illusion in robotics is the belief that improvements in robots will liberate humanity from "hazardous a...

Magan-Leystra March 6, 2023

Why E and not C

I understand how a loose interpretation of the word "eliminate" could justify E being correct, but at the same time, doesn't this argument also assume that cheap, unskilled labor is demeaning? Maybe I'm overthinking this, but that also seems like it is an assumption on which the argument rests.

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Emil-Kunkin March 12, 2023

Hi, the issue with C isn't about the definition of demeaning (which I agree is far from clear cut) but rather on which labor C talks about. The labor that the passage thinks is demeaning would be the repair and maintaince of robots, not the design and building of robots, which is what C is about.