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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man what an amazing artistic statement that would be... For a company to build human replacement robots, but build into them some trigger for them to start jumping out of windows.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They could have some “quiet quit”. Robots with mundane jobs that don’t get enough stimulation or rewards end up spending most of their time parked in a corner or closet. When they do move, they move at ~50% their design speed.

Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

The possibilities are endless.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I think I've seen robot vacuums that have done just that kind of quiet quit. Non robot ones, too, when I think of it.

Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

So, like a dog.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So it just fell down the stairs, and they are just using suicide as a joke.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

Or anthropomorphizing it, expressing sympathy for it, in a country with a lot of suicides and a love of robots.

The fact they're not going to just replace it with another robot could argue for either case.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 19 points 4 months ago

Labour can do that to a slave