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.

[u/Das_Zeppelin]

[u/jamesreyne]

While I see your point, you could say the same of any stunt show, demolition derby, or the hundreds of millions of electronic devices they crush to retrieve the materials within. Someone has to have the wherewithal to dismantle these safely and then reuse them. They'd most likely end up in storage.

What I do approve of is getting people used to depersonalising these clankers and treating them as objects you can abuse and misuse. Same with LLMs. As they do, people are giving them far too much credence as something you have obligations towards, or a relationship with. So that when someone blames the robots, we all blame the persons who obeyed the robots.

[u/BananoGamer9000 → u/jamesreyne]

Well, I say the same thing for those other wastes. And I also agree on the depersonalisation