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RE: Our Robot Servants Already Attacking...
February 12, 2015 at 1:30 am
I get pissed off with the self-scan checkouts at the supermarket. "Please place the item in the bagging area." "Unexpected item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing." Fucking shut up, can't you! I do hate mouthy machines!
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RE: Our Robot Servants Already Attacking...
February 12, 2015 at 10:57 am
That's her story and she is sticking to it.
I would never suggest the shapely contoured surface of the Roomba device, and it's gentle, yet incessant vibration coupled with it's non demanding obedience to it's masters every whim may have caused an unfortunate robo-encounter . . . .
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RE: Our Robot Servants Already Attacking...
February 12, 2015 at 12:28 pm
So much for the first law of robotics.
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RE: Our Robot Servants Already Attacking...
February 12, 2015 at 12:35 pm
That robot probably never read Asimov.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'