Can't Say I'm Too Thrilled With The Fact We Now Have Suicidal Robots
Anybody who knows me knows that I despise robots. I’m a firm believer in the old adage, “the only good robot is a dead one”. With that being said, the idea of them starting to kill themselves scares the shit out of me. Why? Well because that means that they at least have some sort of understanding of feelings. And with those understanding of feelings, they have finally figured out what we all figure out every single morning when we wake up–that life sucks. One of the worst parts about life is actually living. Louis CK said it best. The world is filled with people who just didn’t decide to kill themselves today.
So why does a robot understanding how much life sucks start to scare me? Well because if robots can understand that their life is miserable to the point where they just drown themselves in the company fountain, they’ll eventually start to understand their life sucks because of humans. We’re just lucky as hell that this particular robot took the easy way out. I don’t want to stigmatize robotic suicide but this particular robot was just mentally weak. Once the others start to find out about how miserable their lives are, they’re not all going to drown themselves in some sort of cult mass suicide. Some of them are going to start to fight back. And that, my friends, is when the robot revolution finally takes place. It’s only a matter of time. You can laugh at this tweet and you can think it’s “cute” how a robot “accidentally” ran itself into the fountain and died. But this is no joking matter. This is life or death, people. And the dominoes are beginning to fall.
P.S. – Fuck HitchBOT.