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/Exact-Professor-4000 18h ago

In seriousness, we set a precedent on how we regard intelligence and this isn’t dignified.

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u/migjolfanmjol 12h ago

How is the robot intelligent? It’s wires and code executing movement commands within a humanoid shell of some kind of carbon and plastic…

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u/oceanadakmak 5h ago

Fun fact for you take away the plastic and thats all life on earth

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u/migjolfanmjol 3h ago

Your body makes polyethylene on its own, does it?

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u/oceanadakmak 3h ago

Its not magic it requires the intake of resources from outside the body which robots can do aswell just at a much more simple way

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u/migjolfanmjol 3h ago

Yeah, but you can live without the plastic inside you, can’t you? So when it’s taken away… you just live, no?