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  1. Last 7 days
    1. The Japanese robotics company FANUC is itself one of the original dark factory pioneers that has operated a 'lights out' factory since 2001. In other words, the FANUC robot arms being deployed by GM and other companies to automate automotive production were themselves primarily built by other robots.

      大多数人可能认为机器人是由人类制造的,但作者揭示了一个反直觉的事实:制造汽车机器人的机器人本身主要是由其他机器人制造的,暗示了自动化已经达到自我维持的程度,挑战了人类对生产过程的控制权认知。

  2. Apr 2026
    1. if AI can do only 50 percent of a human's tasks, the importance of the non-automatable tasks likely goes up since they become the bottlenecks, increasing their relative value.

      「部分自动化悖论」:当 AI 完成一半工作时,剩余不可自动化的工作反而变得更重要、更值钱——因为它们成了生产的瓶颈。这意味着 AI 的局部进展可能不会均匀地分配收益,而是集中在那些「恰好不能被自动化」的稀有能力持有者身上。这是一个对「AI 替代论」的精妙反驳,也是理解「AI 时代哪种技能更值钱」的正确框架。