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Some choice comments:

It's only logical to put those people who can't control themselves in an institution or jail.

"Real capitalism has never been tried":

Capitalism is okay, aggressive colonial plutocracy isn't.

On rehabilitation being better than punishment:

I doesn't feel right.

Casual sinophobia:

Lol, Chinese people don't even help other Chinese people when they're hurt/injured.

Arm robots? Sounds like a great idea!

A lady ridding a robot. They should be able to eletroshock anyone trying to harass them

Empathy? What is that?:

I feel bad for these people. πŸ˜”

...why?

"Design effort" > human lives

There should be a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years for anyone who vandalizes these robots. There's a great deal of design effort that goes into achieving compliance with existing regulations and society in order to make sure it behaves appropriately. People vandalizing them is no different than vandalizing other public infrastructure and should be punished accordingly.

Lifetime imprisonment for stealing food:

Lock the people up and throw away the key. Far too many people fetishize mental disorders and use that as an excuse for bad actions. I firmly believe the amount of people you think have mental illnesses are actually pretty low, and these people here are just using that as an excuse to cause disorder and chaos.

Eugenics enjoyer:

Personally, I think the death punishment or at the very minimum sterilization should be handed out to people that commit such crimes so that they can't pass on their lowlife genes. Give me a single reason why the existence of the disgusting old skank riding the robot in the video or the man kicking over the robot at the beginning somehow contributes to humanity and why people like them should have the liberty of having children.

This is another issue of UBI in my opinion as well. Our current job market is a gene-filtering system of sorts, where the more intelligent, hardworking, and cooperative you are, the more likely you are to earn more money, giving you the option to have children. What happens when you give even the dregs of society like those in the video who contribute nothing the resources to have kids? Lower intelligence is already positively correlated with fertility. If you completely remove the bottleneck of finances by implementing UBI, its pretty easy to guess what is to come.

There's soup kitchens, social markets, etc. etc. Doubt anyone in America or the EU literally has to steal or starve.

racism

so are we ignoring the fact it's the basketball americans


There are some comments that are more reasonable to be fair.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol, Chinese people don't even help other Chinese people when they're hurt/injured.

What a load of horseshit. China is one of the friendliest places I’ve ever been to, right up there with Ireland.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an old racist canard reddit-logo loves to bring out. They believe China has laws that punish those who try to help but don't succeed, and so they believe Chinese people just let people die rather than helping.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In China, robot delivery vehicles deployed to help with COVID-19 emergency

Literally first google result, wonder what their reaction would be. Actualy we already know, something something authoritarian fascist lockdown yadayada.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Lol, Chinese people don't even help other Chinese people when they're hurt/injured. wojak-nooo

Meanwhile, in circlejerks about NYC:

DAE New Yorkers smart and tough and don't give a fuck and walk right past people bleeding out because they don't have time for that shit? so-true

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think for me the most infuriating thing about these delivery robots is how much space they take up and how much they fuck up the normal flow of foot traffic. It takes up more space and is more disruptive than most people walking, but it isn't a person walking, it's a private company's product delivering one person's order and also serve as a rolling advertisement for the delivery service and restaurant. Granted, if it was apparent how many cars on the road were just Uber Eats drivers, I'd probably find that infuriating too, but at least they aren't more disruptive than a typical car. Can you imagine if these things took off? If there were dozens of these things rolling down every sidewalk? It'd be a pedestrian hell, especially for those with mobility issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They're terrified of economy of scale efficiency but absolutely love individualized treat vehicles bringing them their treats. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lul @ "basketball Americans" and "tHe cUReNt URBaN EnVirOnMent"!

stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of them just straight up said monkeys even

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The most regrettable turn in evolution is the Yakubian ape developing speech.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago
  • Seeing fascists come out in full force over a treat robot is a great reminder of why I'm on the ML train
  • "I'll fuck this up just for fun" is not leftism; you want to be intentional and targeted when you call for direct action or else you open the door for opportunists and risk getting lost in the sauce
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was going to write a serious reply, but then I got to this part and I can't stop laughing lol

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

"basketball Americans" just say the slur you cowards, we all know you want to.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

"but racism is when you say the n word and are the kkk. I'm not saying it, which makes me not racist"

speech-l

so-true

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

They can't be bigots; they have lanyards, are paid too well, and were told all throughout their technical training that they were above such prejudices because they were nonpolitically full of logic and reason. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

its under the censored racism tab at the end of the post. but also ive seen it all over reddit and tictok.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wonder how's they react if people did the inverse called them NASCAR americans, ranch Americans or Alabama Americans

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Yanquis just have a thing for eugenics. Scratch 'em once, watch it jump out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

i like how the preview generator shows the slogan tagline. should say:

Reddit - Dive into propertarian racism

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

one of them has a fucking flair that says

Empathy = The Force

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People vandalizing them is no different than vandalizing other public infrastructure and should be punished accordingly.

when you’re a yank bazinga robots carrying pad Thai is all the public infrastructure you get

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And of course the infrastructure annexes people space instead of car space πŸ™„

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The AI hypebeasts at r/singularity are racist and bootlickers? say it aint so! shocked-pikachu

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I ever see one of these I'm fucking it up just for shits and giggles

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of fucking nerds. If I see one of these I'm flipping it over too because it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

i am such a sucker for robots with eyes. my first thought was awwww poor robot... oh wait it cant be sad its a robot. get that food!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't live anywhere these job thieves are used but if I did you better believe I'd be kicking over every single one I saw

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They’re getting off easy in this video they should be getting Molotov snacks to carry

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Trek future? Wasn't the Human Federation at least implicitly communist?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't want a Star Trek future. Period.

They're too deeply invested in the idea of being rich in a fantastical space future. What they want is something like Fallout without the slightest realization that that'd be a bad society to live in, even before the nukes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing is that the lore of Star Trek evolved a lot over the decades, reflecting the beliefs and the priorities of the writers in each decade since the 1960s. If you want to get the full story of how humans created Utopia you'd have to focus on certain episodes that are spread all over the franchise. Meanwhile there are a lot of pitfalls, like believing that it was replicators that solved human material needs. The 1960s Star Trek was an ideal to strive for, but United Earth came about through a combination of a WW3 baptism by fire and alien solidarity. TNG limits itself to outlining how Star Trek's society works, and focuses less on how it came about. It's a post scarcity society where 'the challenge is not to accumulate wealth but to improve oneself'. It's only with DS9 that we got the political struggle angle.

All in all, I can at least envision a liberal and tech-driven interpretation of Star Trek. After all, the writers in Star Trek Picard retroactively ruined everything with one of their own.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Imagine posting this and thinking "cool, nice future, crime solved" not "wow that sounds exactly like the plot of a dystopian movie from the 90s"

We don’t really have to worry about theft after the coming next few years. Once you’re detected by AI stealing at one store your personally identifiable data will be shared amongst all merchants via a subscription service. Stores will dial 911 as the thief approaches the entrance of a any store the rest of their lives.

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Wow our startrek future might be diverted by violent felons, greedy thieves, and mentally I’ll drug addicts.

You really can’t make the world a better place.

I'm so glad I don't have a reddit account or I'd be screaming at this guy about the Bell riots

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stores will dial 911 as the thief approaches the entrance of a any store the rest of their lives.

Steal a candy bar? No groceries for you ever! No medicine or clothes either. Right to a fair trial? Serving your sentence? Statute of limitations? Fuck that! Steal $2 of food and you should be made to literally starve in the middle of a city that throws half of its food in the fucking garbage!

But you aren't just banned from these stories, an automatic police call gets sent to you for even going near them or looking in! So you might not need to starve if the cope ice you first.

These people are genuine fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

We don’t really have to worry about theft after the coming next few years. Once you’re detected by AI stealing at one store your personally identifiable data will be shared amongst all merchants via a subscription service. Stores will dial 911 as the thief approaches the entrance of a any store the rest of their lives.

This is the mf screeching at you about social credit scores

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/r/singularity

Wow, shocking, bazinga fetishists going straight for the racism and dehumanization.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally, a subreddit named after the thing its users should be hurled into.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The older lady gyrating on top of the robot is hilarious. I hope it hurts the tech bros’ feelings

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'll choose to believe that thread is full of children. I mean their way of thinking is so infantile.

We want real life to be like the science fiction movie.

Robots = Progress.

People are "harassing" delivery robots which are definetly sentient they even gave them little eyes.

Blaming people for stealing from these things that apparently don't even have locks

I didn't expect better from r/singularity, but looking at this stuff is really sad. This is the future these people settled for.

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