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See, this is the actual reason why I’ll never trust robots. Even if everything is magically released in a perfect working state, all it takes is one buffer stack overflow from a bad update or static on a chip to turn your dignified butler robot into a limb detatcher in 200ms flat.
If it can physically hurt you, assume at all times that machines are dangerous. This is why we have safetys and e-stops for everything. You can’t safety a humanoid robot as we just saw here.
Your phone can explode. Your PC's power supply can catch fire. Your electric car can burst into flames. Yet you happily use all of them.
... And people are just as unpredictable. Think how many shootings quote the shooter's neighbors saying something to the effect of them never expecting such a thing of the shooter.
Your phone can explode
This happens almost never and can be pretty easily prevented with regular care to your device. It’s hard to have this happen with normal use.
Your PC’s power supply can catch fire
And I can run out of the room
Your electric car can burst into flames
This one has the most validity, and there’s a reason I drive a car from ‘03 with no driving assists
Yet you happily use all of them
Because I know exactly what to expect from their failures and how to avoid being hurt by them. A robot with the same limbs (that are likely far stronger) as a human can do more than 100% of the damage a human can do, especially in relaxed at-home setting.
Exactly my point. Why would you be afraid of a robot acting out and be dangerous?
Because 5 limbs with a dozen joints flailing in a house is a lot different than all of the scenarios you gave.
A car has three inputs: gas, brake, steering. A fire can start only from a flammable source and in the case of electric cars, I still personally don’t prefer them.
Anything can be dangerous in an extreme. But imagining a humanoid robot in the room with a kid? No matter how you spin that, no thanks.
In the end it's all about using dangerous tools responsibly. I don't think a robot used responsibly is any more dangerous than a car being used responsibly. I don't see a reason to dismiss robots entirely just because of some rare occurance in a development environment.
I frickin love my machines. CNC, laser cutter, 3d printers. Bring on the bots.
All of which I have worked with and fit neatly in boxes. All about context and environment.
It woke up and chose violence.
Mood
Karate chop!
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
It's not doable because it will eat away the profit margins. /s
No /s.
Could you imagine an artifical mind actually trying to obey these? You can't even get past #1 without being aware of the infinite number of things you could do cartesian-producted with all the consequential downstream effects of those actions until the end of time.
No one ever explained why they had to obey those laws, in the 1st place....only that they had to.
𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕜𝕪𝕟𝕖𝕥 𝟘.𝟙𝟚... ok
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