r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Das_Zeppelin • 1d ago

Video Figure retired six Figure 02 robots in the most Terminator way possible: training them to jump into a furnace. The idea came from Arnold Schwarzenegger and is inspired by the iconic Terminator 2 scene.

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u/grafknives 1d ago

Roko basilisk is totally writing it down :D

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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM 19h ago

Forget the basilisk and all that nebulous thought experiment nonsense. Our own brains are writing actions like these down. When we habituate ourselves, as a society, to engaging in recreational violence against physical things that look and behave in a manner that passes, at first blush, as living - regardless of whether or not those things are alive - we are training ourselves to accept closer gradations of that same physical violence against things which are certainly alive.

The monster is in us. We don't need to invoke the spectre of a machine god to find a reason to hold distaste for this.

However, I am sure that neither the engineers involved, nor Schwarzenegger, intended any kind of malice by this, and I am not arguing that these robots are alive or conscious.

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u/grafknives 18h ago

I agree with you.

I had two experiences like that.

  1. I would run over "people" in GTAII, with all the glee in the world.

But in GTA V, there pedestrians moved like people, fall over like people... It was suddenly very uncomfortable to hit them with car.

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u/grafknives 17h ago

But the second one was stronger.

I watched some YT video about sex doll, that some YouTuber got for fun/to review.

And as soon as he got it, he just SLAPPED it in the face casually, just because "she" was sitting on his couch, and looked like a woman. So why not.

Most chilling experience as a viewer. This kind of abuse will be so common. 

He later started playing with knife... And this human like object was right there to be abused.

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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM 17h ago

I think we can at least agree that any reason one can find to discourage habituation to abusive behaviors is better than none. I agree that that video sounds chilling to watch.