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| ▲ | FartyMcFarter 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't want a person I don't know very well in my space. That aside: if I'm lucky enough to find a person who's good and reliable, they might move away, switch jobs etc. It has all the headaches that come with hiring and managing someone, because, well, it is exactly that... If I don't want to be a manager at work (been there done that, happy to let others do it and get the raise that comes along with it), I sure as heck don't want to do it at home. |
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| ▲ | nozzlegear 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Usually you hire a cleaning company who sends a person they've hired and vetted to clean, you don't have to deal with all of that stuff. | | |
| ▲ | FartyMcFarter 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Then I have to deal with whichever random person they decide to send. I can't be the only one who finds this annoying (even if I'm not in the majority). |
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| ▲ | RandomLensman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You'd need to manage the robot, too, I would think. In my experience, I rather manage people than machines. | | | |
| ▲ | kibwen 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I don't want a person I don't know very well in my space. In the humanoid robot scenario, you'll get a surveillance device with a built-in microphone and camera beaming every intimate detail of your space to the highest bidder. Instead of getting one person you don't know very well in your space, you'll get thousands. |
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| ▲ | iinnPP 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The list of plausible answers is long enough as to question why you felt the need to include the word honestly, irony? One example: social anxiety. |
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| ▲ | RandomLensman 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not irony: why manage machines with all the issues that go with that instead of people? | | |
| ▲ | Marha01 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Tell me you are not an introvert without telling me... I don't want a person I barely know regularly going all over my apartment. What if they discover... nevermind. A robot, on the other hand? Hell yeah! | | |
| ▲ | luckydata an hour ago | parent [-] | | you don't need to be an introvert to find that line of reasoning short sighted. I'm plenty extroverted and I still don't want to deal with people coming to my house to clean it. It's very invasive and they rarely do a good job. A robot that I can "train" to do exactly what I need and constantly works in the background would be a HUGE value add to my lifestyle. | | |
| ▲ | RandomLensman 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The difference might be that I don't believe in these "machine gods of cleaning" being the thing to arrive (looking at current consumer goods) and then the boundary for what to choose shifts a lot if one is willing to deal with humans. The latter also doesn't need to be so foreign, e.g., could be someone already working for a friend. |
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| ▲ | seasox 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Robots don‘t steal and don‘t want a raise. |
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| ▲ | RandomLensman 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If there is a subscription in there somewhere, prices could change. | | |
| ▲ | pertymcpert an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's ok, we get it you don't want one. I would happily pay $20k-$30k for one if it worked well. I know a lot of people who would. | | |
| ▲ | RandomLensman an hour ago | parent [-] | | I might even get one as I like trying new tech if and when, but I have no issue with hiring humans either and humans so far "fail" very differently from machines (as in a lot of software). I find the latter far less predictable and controllable. |
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| ▲ | fidotron an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Humans have emotions. Best avoided. |
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| ▲ | RajT88 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's been said that people who do not have a high EQ gravitate towards tech, because machines are easier to understand than people. |
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| ▲ | terio 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Less liability? |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| With a robot housemaid, I wouldn't have to get dressed. :-P More seriously: - I wouldn't feel obligated to 'pre-clean' anything. Who wants to come across as a thoughtless/careless slob whose personal habits amount to borderline-abusive demands on the cleaning staff? Not me... and where does that line get drawn, anyway? - I wouldn't worry about stuff being picked up and misplaced - I have never had problems with maids stealing stuff, but I know others have - Cleaning can be initiated or postponed as needed, with no dependencies on someone else's schedule |
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| ▲ | RandomLensman 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The last point I can get behind as it is a clear advantage, the other ones might need some more superhuman abilities that I'd not accept as given until demonstrated in extenso. | |
| ▲ | kibwen 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > With a robot housemaid, I wouldn't have to get dressed. :-P Well, as long as you don't mind the workers in the robot company's telemetrics department whacking it to your robot's video feed. | | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They can jerk themselves silly, IDGAF. When the 'Black Mirror' screenwriters get involved, though, I'll require some back-end participation of the financial kind. |
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