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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. πŸ˜”

...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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Star Trek future? Wasn't the Human Federation at least implicitly communist?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't want a Star Trek future. Period.

They're too deeply invested in the idea of being rich in a fantastical space future. What they want is something like Fallout without the slightest realization that that'd be a bad society to live in, even before the nukes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing is that the lore of Star Trek evolved a lot over the decades, reflecting the beliefs and the priorities of the writers in each decade since the 1960s. If you want to get the full story of how humans created Utopia you'd have to focus on certain episodes that are spread all over the franchise. Meanwhile there are a lot of pitfalls, like believing that it was replicators that solved human material needs. The 1960s Star Trek was an ideal to strive for, but United Earth came about through a combination of a WW3 baptism by fire and alien solidarity. TNG limits itself to outlining how Star Trek's society works, and focuses less on how it came about. It's a post scarcity society where 'the challenge is not to accumulate wealth but to improve oneself'. It's only with DS9 that we got the political struggle angle.

All in all, I can at least envision a liberal and tech-driven interpretation of Star Trek. After all, the writers in Star Trek Picard retroactively ruined everything with one of their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"lowlife genes"

reddit-logo moment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lul @ "basketball Americans" and "tHe cUReNt URBaN EnVirOnMent"!

stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of them just straight up said monkeys even

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The most regrettable turn in evolution is the Yakubian ape developing speech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's an old racist canard reddit-logo loves to bring out. They believe China has laws that punish those who try to help but don't succeed, and so they believe Chinese people just let people die rather than helping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol, Chinese people don't even help other Chinese people when they're hurt/injured. wojak-nooo

Meanwhile, in circlejerks about NYC:

DAE New Yorkers smart and tough and don't give a fuck and walk right past people bleeding out because they don't have time for that shit? so-true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In China, robot delivery vehicles deployed to help with COVID-19 emergency

Literally first google result, wonder what their reaction would be. Actualy we already know, something something authoritarian fascist lockdown yadayada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And of course the infrastructure annexes people space instead of car space πŸ™„

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I got to the 10 years in prison part and thought "surely that will be the most outrageous suggestion"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

/r/singularity

Wow, shocking, bazinga fetishists going straight for the racism and dehumanization.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When the fantastical far future of (post)humanity is envisioned as dehumanizing nazi shit forever and ever like a typical Nick Land drug binge but they're scared of people with pronoun preferences or even hair dye. agony-4horsemen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Finally, a subreddit named after the thing its users should be hurled into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The eugenics comment, cringe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The older lady gyrating on top of the robot is hilarious. I hope it hurts the tech bros’ feelings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was going to write a serious reply, but then I got to this part and I can't stop laughing lol