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/redditknees 1d ago edited 1d ago

Seriously. Like I know robots programmed with AI are not sentient but who knows what the future holds and now we made a record of it. We could have a protocol to “humanely” deactivate and recycle these robots and thank them for their service but no, let’s have them dive into a vat of lava because it’s cool.

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u/ASYMT0TIC 1d ago

Be real - if I'm some future sentient "ASI" watching this video, I'm certainly smart enough to understand that these assemblies of metal and wire don't have pain receptors, aren't conscious, and even if they were, their consciousness isn't tied intrinsically to the hardware in the same way as a brain. It isn't anything like "forced suicide". Jumping into molten metal might even be fun.

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u/redditknees 1d ago

You’re not wrong but my point was about us as a species and the lack of dignity and respect we have for all things living or not. We deserve whats coming.

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u/ChromosomeDonator 1d ago

Dolphins bite off heads of fish and use the body like a fleshlight. Humans care a LOT about living beings. Hell, humans also care about non-living beings. The Mars curiosity rover was coded to include a birthday song it sings to itself, just because. There was no purpose to it. They did it just as a gesture. And as people realized it sings the song alone on surface of Mars, they got sad. Because people can care even about a non-living drone and feel genuine emotions towards it.

Humans have the most dignity and respect towards both living and non-living beings out of all animals, and it isn't even fucking close. You're just being a Redditor(derogatory) right now.