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Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 17 hours ago by stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Remember cow tipping? That possibly urban myth about farmer's kids pushing over sleeping cows? I was just thinking about that for some reason. Seems like good viral video content, I mean if it were true.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably one of the reasons you see these little robots far more often in the online shitpost section than the real world.

NYT had a whole article about stochastic violence aimed at robots

https://archive.is/6s5k6

A hitchhiking robot was beheaded in Philadelphia. A security robot was punched to the ground in Silicon Valley. Another security bot, in San Francisco, was covered in a tarp and smeared with barbecue sauce.

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The comedian Aristotle Georgeson has found that videos of people physically aggressing robots are among the most popular he posts on Instagram under the pseudonym Blake Webber. And much of the feedback he gets tends to reflect the fear of robot uprisings.

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Dozens of vigilantes have thrown rocks at driverless cars in Arizona, for example, and incident reports from San Francisco suggest that human drivers are intentionally crashing into driverless cars.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The more we do this, the more their tech bro owners will push for allowing these things to defend themselves. Image that little bot in OP’s pic armed with a taser.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Who would win, an robot or a squirt gun?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

A taser can be defeated with cotton and leather layering. Unless they're willing to strap a viable arc weilder to one then there are ways around that, if they do strap an arc weilder to one then free arc weilder.