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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic refers to a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyU3lKzoio YouTube video] posted | + | {{incomplete|Created by a BOT created by a BOT created by a BOT... Needs to be expanded. Do NOT delete this tag too soon}} |
+ | This comic refers to a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyU3lKzoio YouTube video] posted 1 day earlier by robotics company [https://www.bostondynamics.com/ Boston Dynamics]. The video shows a 4-legged robot with a roughly canine form approach a door, then stop and 'look' to the side where a 2nd robot appears, which has an articulated arm attachment on top. The 2nd robot sizes up the door, then uses its arm to grasp the handle and open the door. It holds the door open for the first robot, then follows it through the doorway. | ||
− | The video was extremely popular, receiving over | + | The video was extremely popular, receiving over 4 million views in the first day. Many social media comments joked that humanity is doomed, as the robots we are developing will soon become capable enough to rise up and overthrow us. This is a common jest expressed when robots manage to master a task that previously had given them difficulty. It is especially appropriate here, since the ability to open doors is extremely useful when dealing with humans. |
− | After [[Cueball]] sees this video, he reiterates the same | + | After [[Cueball]] sees this video, he reiterates the same joke by saying that we're definitely going to die. [[Megan]], however, offers an alternative view: that due to human nature, in fact it is the ''robots'' which are going to die (since humans tend to respond aggressively to existential threats). Therefore, it is in fact the robots that are in mortal peril from this technological development, not humans. |
− | Taking Megan's point, Cueball | + | Taking Megan's point, Cueball facetiously suggests that humans don't tend to overreact violently to perceived threats, to which Megan replies (equally facetiously) that she must be thinking of another species. |
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:Cueball: Violently overreacting to a perceived threat? That doesn't sound like humans. | :Cueball: Violently overreacting to a perceived threat? That doesn't sound like humans. | ||
:Megan: Yeah, I must be thinking of some other species. | :Megan: Yeah, I must be thinking of some other species. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |