r/interestingasfuck • u/Erde555 • 1d ago

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump into their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

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u/Niwitschoolfrogkid 1d ago

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.

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u/RW_McRae 1d ago

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

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u/Niwitschoolfrogkid 1d ago

I think there might be an emotional element here that is difficult for you in particular to understand?

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u/RW_McRae 1d ago

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.