A Tumblr, Just Like Cousin Okri Used To Make

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
frog-fairy
powerbottombrucespringsteen

The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing

powerbottombrucespringsteen

The joys of artistic expression cannot be limited to talented people everybody needs it to survive

kurwaii

This is such a hilarious take we should give untalented people who make bad art money you know just because guys

powerbottombrucespringsteen

Exactly. Glad you understand 💗

frog-fairy
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D:

humanjeff

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

ronthedunedain

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

Bots on The Ground In the Field of Battle (Or Even Above It), Robots Are a Soldier's Best Friend  By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 6, 2007  The most effective way to find and destroy a land mine is to step on it.  This has bad results, of course, if you're a human. But not so much if you're a robot and have as many legs as a centipede sticking out from your body. That's why Mark Tilden, a robotics physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, built something like that. At the Yuma Test Grounds in Arizona, the autonomous robot, 5 feet long and modeled on a stick-insect, strutted out for a live-fire test and worked beautifully, he says. Every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield.  Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working splendidly.  The human in command of the exercise, however -- an Army colonel -- blew a fuse.  The colonel ordered the test stopped.  Why? asked Tilden. What's wrong?  The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg.  This test, he charged, was inhumane.ALT
humanjeff

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

aquilacalvitium

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

xeansicemane

I think that there is something really hopeful about this - no matter what society keeps trying to imprint on us about our roles and how everyone around us is competition first and foremost, most people default to seeing life and companionship.

Of course nobody wants to see the robot get hurt. Why would they WANT to let it get hurt.

This, of course, must be balanced with the knowledge that those robot "dogs" are ultimately cops in deeply unflattering fursuits.

vexwerewolf

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demilypyro

Using my powers of disease and plague to wreak havoc on the kingdom. The knights keep sending doctors to defeat me but I've been eating way too many apples so my forcefield repels them

talisidekick

What's your strategy against undergraduate medical professionals? Like those coming to the kingdom to use the disease and plague outbreak to complete their residency program requirement to become a doctor? Or undergraduate students doing a following for part of their study period? They wouldn't be repelled by the apple forcefield.

demilypyro

I have a gun also