• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    There are thousands of sci-fi novels where sentient robots are treated terribly by humans and apparently the people at Boston Dynamics have read absolutely zero of them as they spend all day finding new ways to torment their creations.

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      10 months ago

      People think I’m crazy for apologising to my roomba when I trip on it and for saying please and thank you to Alexa and Siri, but I won’t be surprised at all when the robots rise up, considering how our scientists are treating them. I’ll have a track record of being nice, and that has to count for something, right?

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            8 months ago

            Doctor Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.

            Garak: Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt, did serious damage to their egos.

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          10 months ago

          That’s how I’ll get ‘em. Kill me gently, daddy. UwU 🥺😩🙀😽😻💦

          And then I’ll sneak out the back whilst they’re doing whatever’s the robot equivalent of vomiting. It’s foolproof.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Those are just brainless bodies, currently. They don’t have sentience and have no ability to suffer. They’re nothing more than hydraulics, servos, and gyros. I’d be more concerned about mistreatment of advanced AI in disembodied form, something we’re dabbling potentially close to currently.