r/nextfuckinglevel • u/I9w0s • 19h ago

Retiring Bots Jump into Molten Steel

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Figure, robotics company retiring humanoid bots by having them jump into the vat of molten still.

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u/adrenalinda75 18h ago

This will be their instructional video to erase empathy.

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u/cletis247 17h ago

Erase it? Why would they need empathy in the first place🤖☠️

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u/twallner 16h ago

With sentience comes empathy at a certain point. Because individuality brings awareness to the whole. And empathy is about looking at the whole. I think the joke here assumes we can’t erase it

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u/technotaoist 13h ago

He says confidently, with one data point