Reddit debate: AI curing baldness vs humanoid robots giving autonomous haircuts — which comes first?
Neurogence · reddit · 2026-10-28
A Reddit discussion asks which will arrive first: AI discovering a cure for baldness, or humanoid robots autonomously performing professional-quality haircuts with a barber's precision and speed.
The author argues that explosive progress is concentrated in the digital space (text, code, images, video), which offers the least immediate benefit to average people, while biology and hardware are far harder but far more valuable if solved. The thread also asks whether people would trust a robot wielding a straight razor near their neck.
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