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2015/08/03 08:38:03
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
A robot that hitch-hiked around Europe and Canada has been smashed to pieces in the United States.
HitchBOT, who was created as part of a social experiment to see whether robots can trust humans, had spent weeks successfully hitchhiking his way from town to town.
The robot was trying to cross the United States and had got as far as Philadelphia.
If you click through there a short vid. about this.
What an odd world we live.
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2015/08/03 08:57:50
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
Ah c'mon, who'd smash such an innocent and nice robot
I'm loving learning about these things, a future with humans and robots / androids together is getting closer and closer
"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
2015/08/03 10:49:24
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
You see America, this is why we can't have nice things. The thing made it across Europe and Canada and lasts two weeks in the US before being smashed in Philadelphia.....the city of brotherly love.
It's a bit like small projects that children in elementary school do over here, flat stanley. They make a paper cut-out person and send it to someone as far away as possible and ask them to photo-document his travels. My youngest niece sent hers to me while I lived in Japan; her flat stanley visited the grand sumo tournament, Tokyo tower and experienced a green tea ceremony.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do
2015/08/03 12:56:13
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
agnosto wrote: You see America, this is why we can't have nice things. The thing made it across Europe and Canada and lasts two weeks in the US before being smashed in Philadelphia.....the city of brotherly love.
It's a bit like small projects that children in elementary school do over here, flat stanley. They make a paper cut-out person and send it to someone as far away as possible and ask them to photo-document his travels. My youngest niece sent hers to me while I lived in Japan; her flat stanley visited the grand sumo tournament, Tokyo tower and experienced a green tea ceremony.
And thats why the US will be the last holdout against the Robot Menace. We're just such s they won't have a chance until they develop their 12th generation killing machine.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2015/08/03 13:19:36
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
agnosto wrote: You see America, this is why we can't have nice things. The thing made it across Europe and Canada and lasts two weeks in the US before being smashed in Philadelphia.....the city of brotherly love.
It's a bit like small projects that children in elementary school do over here, flat stanley. They make a paper cut-out person and send it to someone as far away as possible and ask them to photo-document his travels. My youngest niece sent hers to me while I lived in Japan; her flat stanley visited the grand sumo tournament, Tokyo tower and experienced a green tea ceremony.
And thats why the US will be the last holdout against the Robot Menace. We're just such s they won't have a chance until they develop their 12th generation killing machine.
Exactly, that and we have more guns and bullets. Now if they can just miniaturize that giant laser those Japanese scientists cooked up recently I'll be set.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do
2015/08/03 14:52:13
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
A robot that hitch-hiked around Europe and Canada has been smashed to pieces in the United States.
HitchBOT, who was created as part of a social experiment to see whether robots can trust humans, had spent weeks successfully hitchhiking his way from town to town.
The robot was trying to cross the United States and had got as far as Philadelphia.
Buttery Commissar wrote: Oh, how horribly sad. I suppose it's accurate in that you simply can't trust everybody out there.
Nah... it's mistake was in that it went into/through Philadelphia.
Hitchbot made it through New York without a problem.
Of course it had to get destroyed in Philly.
Doesn't everything/everyone get destroyed in Pilly?
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do
2015/08/03 17:10:17
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
agnosto wrote: You see America, this is why we can't have nice things. The thing made it across Europe and Canada and lasts two weeks in the US before being smashed in Philadelphia.....the city of brotherly love.
It's a bit like small projects that children in elementary school do over here, flat stanley. They make a paper cut-out person and send it to someone as far away as possible and ask them to photo-document his travels. My youngest niece sent hers to me while I lived in Japan; her flat stanley visited the grand sumo tournament, Tokyo tower and experienced a green tea ceremony.
Oh bloody hell, now I've got childhood memories of listening to Flat Stanley cassette tapes.
That was a name I never thought I'd hear again.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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2015/08/03 19:44:51
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
Another interesting point brought up in the article on slate about this is that children are well known to abuse robots. That may be potentially what happened.
Quote for the article
Humans may find robots creepy at times, but at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in March, Japanese researchers presented a paper titled "Why Do Children Abuse Robots?" about scenarios where the tables are turned. The field study noted incidents of children hitting, kicking, punching, detaining, and physically manipulating a human-sized humanoid social robot at a mall in Japan. The robot encountered many children, and the researchers did follow up interviews with 28 of them.
They wrote, "We found that the majority of [the children] did not regard the robot as just a machine, but a human-like entity ... yet [they] engaged in the abuse, mentioning the reason as curiosity or enjoyment." The researchers hypothesized that the children may not have felt empathy for the robots, even when they thought the robots were "upset" by being abused.
Blood Hawk wrote: Another interesting point brought up in the article on slate about this is that children are well known to abuse robots. That may be potentially what happened.
Quote for the article
Humans may find robots creepy at times, but at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in March, Japanese researchers presented a paper titled "Why Do Children Abuse Robots?" about scenarios where the tables are turned. The field study noted incidents of children hitting, kicking, punching, detaining, and physically manipulating a human-sized humanoid social robot at a mall in Japan. The robot encountered many children, and the researchers did follow up interviews with 28 of them.
They wrote, "We found that the majority of [the children] did not regard the robot as just a machine, but a human-like entity ... yet [they] engaged in the abuse, mentioning the reason as curiosity or enjoyment." The researchers hypothesized that the children may not have felt empathy for the robots, even when they thought the robots were "upset" by being abused.
Apparently some drunk Eagles fan kicked its ass...there's video available. Looks like Urban Yoof-ism wins again.
Eagles fans (and Philly sports fans in general) have pretty much always been considered the worst fanbase ever. Not surprised that a Canadian robot got jumped in Philly. Whoever took him there should have put some green on him before leaving.
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5353/08/04 15:04:22
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
Pretty sure you can find examples of that for all sports fans. Pro sports fans aren't the smartest people in general...how else would we describe a group of people whose emotional well-being depends upon the performance of adults paid millions of dollars to do what they did for fun when they were 12?
Pretty sure you can find examples of that for all sports fans. Pro sports fans aren't the smartest people in general...how else would we describe a group of people whose emotional well-being depends upon the performance of adults paid millions of dollars to do what they did for fun when they were 12?
Ouch mate. I fully agree, but ouch
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
2015/08/04 16:36:31
Subject: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
Pretty sure you can find examples of that for all sports fans. Pro sports fans aren't the smartest people in general...how else would we describe a group of people whose emotional well-being depends upon the performance of adults paid millions of dollars to do what they did for fun when they were 12?
On the same magnitude and frequency? Possible, but at the end of the day, a Philly Fan is still a Philly fan. And he has to look in the mirror every day.
s they won't have a chance until they develop their 12th generation killing machine.
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