Smart House
An evening pause: This is a set of two commercials. I have no idea what the product is that they are selling, nor do I care. They are hilarious, and speak well to the modern childish obsession of adopting hi-tech where no hi-tech is really needed.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
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Couldn’t take it, had to know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REMA_1000
Robert Pratt: I must say that while the commercials are funny, they are terrible advertisements for this supermarket. Terrible. One should at least get some idea about the product from the ad. Not here.
The concept of the stores is that simplicity is best, I get it and what the ads were trying to do, simply hilarious.
What about the door ?
I get the fire thing.
The door is what we need to understand.
Love it.
The Big Bang Theory S05 E14 –
Kripke & Siri
https://youtu.be/fho_Raf-FY8
2:09
It’s like classic era Heinlein co-wrote with Mel Brooks.
Mmmmmm, more like a demonstration of how Asimov’s Laws of Robotics always ultimately fail
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, as they are called, have survived to the present:
1.Robots must never harm human beings or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.Robots must follow instructions from humans without violating rule 1.
3.Robots must protect themselves without violating the other rules.