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What is not a robot?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:56:35 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: Are self-driving cars also a kind of robots? Yes, just like self-posting morons from Hong Kong. They are both 'a kind of robot'. (Self-driving cars are marginally more intelligent, and vastly more useful.) Excellent observation! Maybe all living organism are just biological robots! The origin of robot is from Czech, robota, coined in the play by Capek in 1920. Robota means forced labor. |
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What is not a robot?
On 9/11/2018 12:51 AM, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
The origin of robot is from Czech, robota, coined in the play by Capek in 1920. Robota means forced labor. But in modern context, is the word "robot" confined to machines with AI? And in its old context, workers are all robots from the eyes of the rich in Middle-East? They beileved their fossil oil controls world economy, I supposed. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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What is not a robot?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:51:57 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote: The origin of robot is from Czech, robota, coined in the play by Capek in 1920. Robota means forced labor. Can't beat that WordWebPro, Anthony Lang, and Princeton University. |
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What is not a robot?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:19:18 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:51:57 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: The origin of robot is from Czech, robota, coined in the play by Capek in 1920. Robota means forced labor. Can't beat that WordWebPro, Anthony Lang, and Princeton University. Indeed. |
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What is not a robot?
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:37:22 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote: Indeed. A pre-communist, enemy #2 two on the Gestapo list, and "little-D" democratic. A whipping boy, slave scapegoat, crucifix victim. - ....at the suggestion of his brother, Josef, Capek ultimately opted ... robots. [The Russian communist playwright, so in fathering the coinage, Robot. -fl] Prof. MARKEL: ... a wonderful play. The robots do so well, they really kind of take over Earth. I mean, they take over the army. They take over all the work. Even human women can no longer reproduce because they've forgotten how. And so, the robots, after a while, say, hey, enough of this. We're going to take over the world. We're doing all the work. So it's sort of an allegory for a mass revolt of the workers unite and things get really bad. And all but one human being is killed in this play. [Howard Markel is professor of the history of medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and director of the Center for the History of Medicine there.] .... Derived terms to- bo-te — to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover bo-tan, be-tan — to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone bo-tettan — to improve, repair, to better bo-tle-as — unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bo-t. bo-twyrþe — pardonable, that can be atoned for by bo-t, bot-worthy brycgbo-t f. — repairing of bridges burgbo-t, burhbo-t f. — liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress ....&etc, &etc. |
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