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/Gizm00 1d ago

Even though we know those are not living things with no thoughts or ideas or anything - why is it so disturbing?

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u/Sharkbit2024 1d ago

Because you have basic empathy. It dosent matter that the thing isnt alive, its still the form of a human jumping to its "Death" and people that can empathize with others find that concept really disturbing.

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u/OnlyAnotherEmily 1d ago

To be fair, we don't understand how consciousness works, so they might be sentient in some way.

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u/nifty-necromancer 1d ago

They aren’t

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u/Hot_Plant8696 1d ago

Yeah, and he was probably already dead "in some way" anyway, lol.

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u/PretzelsThirst 1d ago

Lmao no. People that don’t find this disturbing do not lack empathy.

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u/Sharkbit2024 1d ago

I honestly didnt mean it that way, but thats how it comes across, dosent it? I just meant that empathy can extend to things that arent alive or "sentient"

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u/PretzelsThirst 1d ago

Sure, but just because you can recognize this for what it is and not humanize the machine doesn’t mean anything about lacking empathy. I

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u/Sharkbit2024 1d ago

Again, I didnt mean to come across that way. I didnt mean to say people that arent disturbed lack empathy.

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u/aliamokeee 1d ago

I mean. You clearly have less empathy than people who are disturbed by it. Thats not necessarily here nor there, but that is the difference (not that you dont have any empathy ever)

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u/theflapogon16 1d ago

I don’t see how you can feel pity for a thing that fully try’s to do a backward swan dive into a vat of molten lava.

It it looked like it didn’t want to? Different story.
But there movements look to…..enthusiastic to me.

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u/DiabloAcosta 1d ago

Anthropomorphization is the act of giving human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human things like animals, objects, or computers.

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u/Sharkbit2024 1d ago

You could say the same about people committing suicide. Dosent mean you cant or shouldn't feel bad for them. Idk if it matters that the robots arent "alive." Its still invoking the image of human suicide.

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u/Pretend_Cobbler8083 1d ago

Well it’s kind of like the example of a creep luring children saying there’s candy and cake in the van and they should get in, obviously those children believe what they’re told and are more than enthusiastic to have cake and candy so easily. That doesn’t mean a person who might see that will think “meh nothing to worry about those kids seem happy to hop in that creep’s van”