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. 😔

…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.

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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

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

      Robots = Progress.

      I am in no way defending Redditors.

      I saw the clip yesterday and it invoked a lot of pathos in me. Robots have been one of the dreams of a better tomorrow for a century now. We’re finally getting to the point where robotics isn’t just a pipe dream or plot device and our society is so broken that we can only react to it with malice, greed, and fear. Instead of looking forward to allowing people more leisure time, we’re forced to worriedly figure out which jobs they’ll replace first. And yeah, a smaller manifestation of that is that we should be marveling at all the science and engineering that goes into making them work, but a portion of us just want to vandalize them.

      It’s like watching first contact with an intelligent alien species and seeing someone run up and mug the alien for their wallet.

      Unlike the Redditors though, I beleive that it’s society that’s failed the people in that video by subjecting them to such day-to-day cruelty that they think it’s fun or necessary to destroy or steal.

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        We’re finally getting to the point where robotics isn’t just a pipe dream or plot device and our society is so broken that we can only react to it with malice, greed, and fear.

        Can you blame people when the robotics are by and large being used maliciously, greedily, and in ways that strike fear (such as those heckin robot police doggos with increasingly closer to lethal weapons)?

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      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.

      We have some 50+ year old children deciding western economic policy with sheer lobbying power and ties to the military-industrial complex. doomer

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    • 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
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    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.

    Edit: bonus round

    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

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      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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      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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        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.

        Most techbros believe in something called the “non-aggression principle” which is a cryptofascist power fantasy of unlimited vengeance if a kid steals a candy bar. frothingfash

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      That one was the most mask off one of the lot. The whole take was peak deeplib: jobs as a gene-filtering system and anti-UBI to stop the poors breeding. Absolute fuckhole