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MineralMan

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3. You don't learn until the end that a human doctor was controlling that robot.

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 02:12 PM

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It was not acting autonomously. So, the human surgeon did the surgery, using the robot as a surgical instrument.

I am less impressed, now that I know that. It should have been in the lead paragraph.

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