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Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

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Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

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Better farming methods and farmers will probably not need such and invention. I think about no drill farming. This "weed problem" comes from a farming not going with but against the nature. So it's thought that technology will solve problems which are no problems if methods to farm are optimized.

Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

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It's all fun and games until the selection pressure evolves weeds that say "human" on their leaves to fool the AI.

Nah, they would be cultivated and breed for other texts or be driven to extinction like those trees which evolved numbers https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Counting_pines

Re: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers

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It seems like a good idea, but won’t many types of weeds just grow back if you don’t also remove their roots?

It's non-pesticide though, so you can just run it continuously and keep lasering the regrowth as well. Eventually the roots will run out of energy.
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