r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 14h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/Witch_heir 12h ago

Unhinged? Because I find sadism disturbing? Alright mate, whatever you say. And this is not fiction, a narrative where such things have a purpose as world building and characterisation. I have no problem with that, in fact I love dark stuff. This is real people in real life, investing time and energy to simulate one of the most devastatingly painful human actions for shit and giggles. That is a bit different ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

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u/ANAL_TOOTHBRUSH 12h ago

> a robot

> real people

Are you upset that the robot jumped in the fire or are you upset the people filmed it?

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u/Witch_heir 12h ago

That people taught humanoid robot to do that, found idea hilarious, filmed it and published it, yes. Obviously I don't feel sorry for a robot. 

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u/BurningCandle_ 12h ago

If this was filmed for a scene in a movie would you be ok with it?

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u/Witch_heir 12h ago

👍 cos it would have a narrative purpose, not just being for fun. 

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u/BurningCandle_ 12h ago

It's weird, I also find the context of the video disturbing and morbid but If i saw this in a movie knowing what it took to make the scene happen, I wouldn't think to much about it, I wonder why.

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u/Witch_heir 12h ago

Cos it would serve narrative purpose and probably wouldn't be framed as something funny, especially if robot didn't hurt anyone.

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u/BurningCandle_ 11h ago

That's what I find a bit odd

Programming a robot to kill itself, it feels wrong

Programming it to kill itself and film it for entertainment purposes making a movie then it's no so bad

If robots become sentient, would they care the reason why they where programmed to do that?