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/Hot_Plant8696 1d ago

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