• foggy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Man what an amazing artistic statement that would be… For a company to build human replacement robots, but build into them some trigger for them to start jumping out of windows.

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      4 months ago

      They could have some “quiet quit”. Robots with mundane jobs that don’t get enough stimulation or rewards end up spending most of their time parked in a corner or closet. When they do move, they move at ~50% their design speed.

      Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

      The possibilities are endless.

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        4 months ago

        I think I’ve seen robot vacuums that have done just that kind of quiet quit. Non robot ones, too, when I think of it.

        Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

        So, like a dog.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Or anthropomorphizing it, expressing sympathy for it, in a country with a lot of suicides and a love of robots.

      The fact they’re not going to just replace it with another robot could argue for either case.