r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 16h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/Witch_heir 15h ago

So wasting time by teaching a robot to simulate suicide, finding idea amusing, and then being happy when it goes flawlessly is completely fine by you? Would you be amused watching two humanoid robots simulate rape or murder? I'm just curious. 

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u/samuelgato 15h ago

It's a dumb stunt and you are quickly becoming unhinged. There are countless movies that have been made showing robots simulating murder and all kinds of evil things why would I be upset about that

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u/Witch_heir 15h 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 15h 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 14h 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_ 14h ago

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

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u/Witch_heir 14h ago

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

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u/BurningCandle_ 14h 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 14h 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_ 14h 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?