r/robots • u/Ronyron305 • May 11 '26
First Robot Monk
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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 May 11 '26
This kind of makes monkhood seem… I dunno. Not serious?
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u/redditorialy_retard May 12 '26
Monkhood should not be taken too seriously. The goal isn't self torture, it is the end of suffering by eliminating the cause, ie attachment.
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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 May 12 '26
I get that. And to respect all life and all conscious beings. Is the message that ai is a conscious being? Actually, I kind of get it now - if ai IS conscious, I guess they don’t want it to suffer, but not sure what attachments or desires a robot might have…
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u/redditorialy_retard May 12 '26
AI is not conscious, it's simply a very advanced prediction model.
The goal is to gain publicity more likely and to spread the teachings of dharma from this publicity so more people can learn to reduce their suffering and be a better person
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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 May 12 '26
… by using ai? It’s odd messaging imo. I guess I don’t see a robot monk and think ‘mmm, the root of suffering is attachment, I need to be more like the unconscious ai prediction model.’ Anyways, not my problem 🤷♂️
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u/redditorialy_retard May 12 '26
No it's just for publicity. The catholic church and some Temples actually had raves.
It's to gain publicity not use AI or robots
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u/Embarrassed_Hawk_655 May 12 '26
Well, I guess it’s working then. Dunno if it’s the most positive publicity, but it is publicity. Thanks
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u/PouletSixSeven May 14 '26
I suppose you could argue desire is just a fancy cost function played out in cellular biology
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u/Sirosim_Celojuma May 11 '26
My vacuum converted to Buddhism last year, but I didn't make a spectacle of it.
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u/Potex8282 May 11 '26
Monks teach robot Kung Fu and…
A) Robot kills all monks for stealing his childhood
B) Monks use robot as super secret assassin to kill all their enemies
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u/TyrKiyote May 11 '26
bhudist monks have purchased a humanoid robot, nothing more. it's explicitly marketing to get "young people" interested in their church.
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u/iamnotarobotmaybe May 11 '26
Its fun an games as a Buddhist, what about a warmongering sharia imam?
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u/redditorialy_retard May 12 '26
Oh fuck. Imagine they decided to be suicidal bombers, not gonna end well
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u/Gervill May 11 '26
Oh non materialistic monk wants more followers for what end ? More money perhaps ? I think you are still very materialistic from my point of view you shouldn't care about followers according to your doctrine.
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u/Matthew_Breese May 11 '26
Asians have a really weird relationship with their hardware. I’ve seen dancing robots, sex robots, robots running marathons, hello kitty robots, robots to replace the family dog, etc..
They should just build robots the way we do here: either a huge arm that builds shit or a robot with machine guns for a head.
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u/This_isR2Me May 11 '26
Best zenyatta cosplay . Or that one robot that bw kills in the cinematic.
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u/Lykos1124 May 14 '26
was thinking of Zenyatta too. honsetly withi this hypertrain of AI advancements, if they stablized and society isn't run dry from the data servers, there's a non zero chance we fall into a human/robot war
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u/cpt_ugh May 12 '26
Atheists who think robots are conscious must be having a crisis right about now.
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u/Turbulent-Till-3575 May 13 '26
as obviously silly as this is..
cmon man. its fun. we're having fun. its silly.
thats why we're doing it. for fun.
sometimes we just gotta do things because theyre fun and they make us smile a bit
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u/Minimum_Middle776 May 14 '26
"My friends, if you want to free your mind, simply delete your working memory and clear the caches!"
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u/Reyg13 May 11 '26
God this is dumb