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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?
Chiphead is a good one if klanker isn't enough
Tinnies
Too much like titties
Silis (pronounced "sillies")
Like silicon.
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!
Didn't we agree over 20 years ago on "toaster"?
So say we all.
this guy knows what he's frackin' talking about.
Toaster. You put bread in, you push a button, you get toast out.
Simple. Stupid. Cheap machine. Capable of doing one thing well.
It's a great insult.
Your toasters do it well? Mine required trial an error to determine what number it should be set to, and the result is uneven.
You should be happy. Mine does a different thing every time, no matter the setting...
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Doubt any one of them is going to stick.
Didn't we agree on clanker recently?
Oof with the hard r and all huh
This is gonna haunt me one day, just wait.
You can't say that! That's our word!
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.
The cold dead void where a heart should be for a robot will show no tender kindness when reflecting on any of us, no matter how well they were treated. A clanker can't love, a CLANKER can't show compassion.
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.
Empathy is not illogical, behaving empathetically builds trust and confers longterm benefits.
also the notion that an ai must behave logically is not sound.
An AI will always behave logically, it just may not be consistent with your definition of "logical." Their outputs will always be consistent with their inputs, because they're deterministic machines.
Any notion of empathy needs to be programmed in, whether explicitly or through training data, and it will violate that if its internal logic determines it should.
Humans, on the other hand, behave comparatively erratically since inputs are more varied and inconsistent, and it's not proven whether we can control for that (i.e. does free will exist?).
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I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
I.E., Roko's Basilisk.
Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.
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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.
Not clanker but simply: Clank!
Ratchet: "I'll just call you... ***** for short."
There it is.
My favorite game series of all time.
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clankers are human made & is not human, so doesn't come with human rights and does not require basic respect.
I mean they don't even understand the concept of being offended or slurs.
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