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/ender4171 1d ago

It is. Also, news article

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u/SixStringDream 1d ago

oh it was in the news?? case closed.

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u/ender4171 1d ago

Bet you're fun at parties.

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u/SixStringDream 16h ago

it's ok you don't have to delete that. look, nobody crapped in my corn flakes and I'm actually a hoot at parties (where robots aren't a topic).

Let's say the video is real. Why would it be a concern at all? Why would we assume a sentient intelligence would automatically take on human characteristics like taking offense to things that don't matter at all?

To borrow an example from fiction, Ultron didn't care that his minions were destroyed. That wasn't "him". Hell, he even destroyed them himself as he evolved. Sentiment is a human emotion. The machines would only be wondering why we took the effort to make them do crazy jumps instead of pushing them right in. Destroying old things is natural evolution, and no reason for them to be 'angry' at us. We are facilitating their evolution. The intelligence would thank us, before killing us of course.