Thursday, July 14, 2016
More self-driving omnicide
Straight out of horrible sci-fi, but it's not fi. It's not even proper sci. It's just OMNICIDE.
"What is that thing? What is that thing!" Teng said she screamed as she tried to push the 300-pound robot off her son. "I tried all my strength to push it back and make it stop, but it didn't," Teng said. Then her husband intervened, pulling the crying child out from under the robot. She figured he had broken bones. Knightscope, which makes the robot, said the machine veered to the left to avoid the child, but the toddler ran backwards directly in the front of the machine. Teng said her son was not capable of running backwards.Let's concentrate on that last paragraph. The robot's maker said the kid ran backwards. The mother said, UNNECESSARILY, that her kid can't run backwards. NOBODY CAN RUN BACKWARDS. Only a good athlete who has specifically spent long hours practicing the stunt can run backwards for more than a few steps. Alert adults can back-pedal a couple of steps to avoid an approaching car or robot, but truly running backwards is unnatural. The robot's maker is COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORANT about normal human abilities and behavior. Therefore we trust them to program the monster correctly. JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST. What in the ROYAL FUCK is wrong with us? Share value is all. Share value is all. How many non-Chosen carcasses equate to one extra basis point in share value? I'm sure the robot-maker knows the answer to seven decimal places.
Labels: Make or break
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