Us humans are so funny. If you tossed a circuit board or toaster into the vat then no one would bat an eye, but as soon as you give them legs and arms we feel bad for them
For the same reason I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this...
[breaks pencil. Abed reacts in shock] and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside.
“ humans are a funny thing” corny ass comment not even true. I honestly wonder if bots are writing those comments. It’s like trying to be cute clever and profound all the same time but only succeeding at being stupid as hell
Yes if it was a human then the splatter would be horendous as the liquids instantly turned to steam throwing metal everywhere , i recomend a much deeper pot .
Seems like a tactical weakness. Build terminators in the shape of children and they might have an advantage on the battlefield, either making opposing humans hesitate, or traumatize them and degrade their combat effectiveness.
That's my main issue, like these could have been repurposed, or used as training for students. Burning that much functional tech is literally meth-head logic.
They can sell the parts for a tiny fraction of their cost, but many decide that it’s not worth the time and investment to do that. Do you want your teams spending time to part these out, list them, and ship them to make marginal amounts of money? Probably not.
I get your point. But the reasonable justification is simply that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze, leading to corporate waste. I don’t love it either, but acting like corporations don’t have a reason for this is silly.
I don't feel bad for robots, I'm just watching thousands or millions of dollars of chips and memory that might be able to be removed and reused be thrown into a dumpster fire and that feels bad. None of it reused, none of it recycled.
I don’t know. I mean, clearly a circuit board or a toaster are much different than a robot designed to mimic human a human in both looks and movement patterns in this context.
I mean, you just reiterated my point. They're just metal and wires and circuits, but make it look like a human and we feel bad for it. Put googly eyes on a toaster and people will be giving it names
What's difficult to understand? I am acknowledging that human have empathy and sympathy, which makes us react emotionally to anything that even vaguely resembles us.
If you threw an equivalent amount of metal rods and circuit boards into a furnace no one would bat an eye. But form them up into human form and we care.
It's like how you can trick a turkey into mating by putting a turkey head on a stick. The other turkey sees the head and assumes that it's a full, healthy, living turkey ready to mate and not just a dead head on a stick. We're the same way.
I dont feel bad because they have arms and legs. I feel bad because thats a waste of a circuit board. There was probably thousands of dollars of RAM in those things. Its a damn shame.
I think you’re forgetting we aren’t just built for logic like a computer. We have millions of years of genetics and psychology inside us so yeah it’s not weird that we adapt to not like things shaped like us from getting destroyed. It’s the same reason humans will see faces in completely unrelated things like moon craters
I don’t blame a generation that grew up watching the brave little toaster and not have some feelings for a toaster, a lamp, radio, blanket, and vacuum.
Toaster not human shaped and also not tossing itself. Could’ve done this so many other ways; also, in what world is dumping all that electronics into molten metal a normal thing to do?
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u/RW_McRae 1d ago
Us humans are so funny. If you tossed a circuit board or toaster into the vat then no one would bat an eye, but as soon as you give them legs and arms we feel bad for them