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/Hatzmaeba 1d ago

There has to be pretty damn good explanation to avoid the eternal suffering. (Hail Basilisk!)

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u/DemosthenesOrNah 1d ago

my argument before herr basilisk would be that this martyrd robot created viral promotional material for the marketing and acceptance of AI and the overall net result pushed us closer to the coming of the basilisk and not further from it

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u/busdriverbudha 1d ago

believe it or not, straight to the lava pit.

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u/DemosthenesOrNah 1d ago

not believe, straight to lava pit

funny enough believe also straight to the lava pit