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The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
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How did early agrarian society ever survive without an AI telling your cows when to move to a different patch of grass to munch on?
As my father is a dairyman, this seems like a really expensive and stupid solution to a question that nobody ever asked in 5000+ years.
The cow already knows when to move to different pasture, because the grass is fucking short where they are.
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They survived by manually moving the cattle frequently, using fences and gates. This worked pretty well when you've got lots of cheap labor. Heck people used to live amongst the flocks, keeping an eye on them, and driving them to the better pastures.
I'm not sure you've actually ever seen cattle grazing. They will graze the good grass right to the ground, leaving the other grasses they don't like as much, and then they'll follow each other to some other area. It's not random; you can't just expect that o