• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Well, all right. But I don’t want anyone to think we’re robosexual or anything, so if anyone asks, you’re my debugger.

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    18 days ago

    Slur requires a group of disparaged people to whom the slur is targeted. Beep-boops with no intelligence ain’t fucking people.

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    19 days ago

    He calls me clanka, he calls the other kids clanka, he calls himself clanka. All the time. “Clanka this”, “Clanka that”, “Clanka, please”, “Bitch clanka”, “Clanka, have you lost your mind?”, “Clanka, check that ho”, “Clanka, you bullshit” and “Break yourself, clanka”. He says it so much, I don’t even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch, Optimus said to a classmate, “Can a clanka borrow a french fry?” And my first thought wasn’t “Oh, my God. He said the word, uh, the C-word”. It was now “How is a clanka gonna borrow a fry?” “Clanka, is you gonna give it back?” I’m telling you, my inside voice didn’t talk like that before he got in my class.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk’s Optimus robot has been coming to work in factories “by the end of the year” for over five years now.

    It’s just another unsubstantiated promise he reuses every year just like the long promised full autonomy of his self-driving cars.

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      18 days ago

      I’m actually surprised he hasn’t started working on Fusion since that’s similarly always just a few years away. It has been since the 1960s.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    if robots gain personhood, it’s not the robot body that gains personhood. it’s the robot mind, aka. the computer.

    imo personhood is tied to responsibility. if machines can be responsible, they can be persons.

    consider that a lot of organizations already have legal personhood, including corporations, non-profit foundations, and cities/states.

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    18 days ago

    I and at least two other people once called robots “tin cans” on social media. Can mashable turn that into a “news story”, too?

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    I don’t often use the word “cringe”, but IMO this warrants it. This silliness is going to discredit attempts at serious conversation.

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    17 days ago

    This DEFINITELY gunna get cꝏpted by rightshits (if it hasn’t already)

    Just sincere enough to not be obvious satire , peops outright saying they’re gonna be “robophobic” (sadly don’t think they’re joking) , probably using mass AI panic to recruit peops rightward … writings on the wall

    So many peops gonna be radicalised into ecofascism (if not just regular degular fascism) it’s scary . Don’t think this funny at all