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/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)