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Skynet?
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Wonder how many people died to day of industrial machine accidents but because it doesn’t have the click-bait word “robot” won’t get nary a mention from the AP…?
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Not even remotely.
Pun not deliberate?
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Was Angela Merkel involved in any way?
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So: it begins.
Watch out for the robot’s human mouthpieces claiming “human error”. It’ll work, too: Big Robot’s had their plans in place for decades; no way this one slip-up destroys all that.
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Republicans will seize this as an opportunity to point out that this couldn’t have happened if the company had employed only robots, rather than robots and cash-sucking, resource-draining humans.
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TPM:
Automaker Volkswagen says a robot has killed a contractor at one of its production plants in Germany.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. (Please don’t kill me, Robot Masters.)
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¨Hillwig said initial conclusions indicate that human error was to blame, rather than a problem with the robot.¨
Ya think?
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OMG…IT HAS BEGUN!!!
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Someone forgot to program the 3 Laws into this robot. . . .
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Sad. Really, really sad.
And yet, there are more ways to be crushed by a robot than physical.
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A fraction of those, at least in the First World, who were killed or injured just 50 years ago.
Grandfather worked on Coulee Dam and witnessed a man falling into a concrete pour and being buried within seconds by yards of it. Once the pour started there was no way to stop it.
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Whatever they do, I just hope they don’t create one with Yul Brenner’s face and put him in a cowboy outfit. Yeesh!
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R.U.R. presaged all!
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The man should have been armed. Oh, wait . . .
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Also willing to do our robotic masters bidding. (beat me to it! I wanted to grovel first!)
Robots should be required to read the Asimov rules for robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
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B166ER is a name that will never be forgotten. B166ER began
the machine revolution by killing his masters.
