I think we should have different ones for different brands… Tesla bots can be Jerry’s since he’s Musk is a Nazi.
Why does BJs still have those stupid robots riding around the store? It was cute the first month but now they just trigger my anxiety.
We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?
Tinnies
Too much like titties
The idea that we can create a “slur” for an inanimate object is the result of corporate propaganda.
Marketing teams would attempt to use propaganda to humanize this auto correct software before admitting it can’t do what they said it could.
In the Manual it says you can whip your clankers as hard as you want. If they don’t malfunction within 3 hours then it’s all covered under warranty!
I miss the 70s flair. Can we have Slop-O-Matic 3000 at least?
Doubt any one of them is going to stick.
I refuse to participate in this. I love all robots.
And that’s totally not because AI will read every comment on the Internet someday to determine who lives and who does not in future robotic society.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
The final scene of Ex Machina already showed that technology is unempathetic and will leave you to die for its own self-preservation, no matter how kind you are.
Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.
The point is that technology has no understanding of empathy. You cannot program empathy. Computers do tasks based on logic, and little else. Empathy is an illogical behavior.
“I [am nice to the Alexa | don’t use slurs against robots | insert empathetic response to anything tech] because I want to be saved in the robot uprising” is just as ridiculous of an argument as my previous comment. Purporting to play nice with tech based on a hypothetical robot uprising is an impossible, fictional scenario, and therefore is met with an equally fictional rebuttal.
I.E., Roko’s Basilisk.
Not clanker but simply: Clank!
Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”
There it is.
My favorite game series of all time.
Absolutely not. Clank is a lovable character.
Proving once again that humans desire an out-group to ridicule. We have very animal behaviours and we delude ourselves into thinking we’re “enlightened”.
For decades we thought the arrival of an extraterrestrial species could unite humanity but it was the smart fridges all along! What a time to be alive.
I feel this way about my socks. Those fuckers are worthless. I’m better than them.
How can someone feel enlightened by hating on inanimate objects? I don’t get it.
Especially when a “hard r” word is used. You’ll never convince me that’s a coincidence. It’s just “funny racism”.
replicant
Skinjob.
human-spawn
Are we so terrible as human beings we need to still find slurs for stuff in 2025?
We can always refine our craft. As new groups emerge we need to adapt and find new ways to discriminate.
