Malfunctions....
- Lord of the Geeks
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she saw an advantage in bot over a gun, in the autonomy... think of it as a highly trained humanoid attack dog. you can't set a gun on the ground and say, "guard this" and go to sleep. you could a bot. of course then you only need it humanoid so it can interact with tools. nothing says you cant have a killer abio... with built in guns and chainsaws.
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I still trust a robot less than I trust a dog or an inert tool. True, a dog can turn on you but that in reality happens less often than people's blood relatives turning on them. A dog will wake you up by barking and attacking or screaming if it is injured. I can hear mine barking in my sleep and tell exactly the meanings of the sounds they make and know whether to get up or resume deeper sleep.Lord of the Geeks wrote:she saw an advantage in bot over a gun, in the autonomy... think of it as a highly trained humanoid attack dog. you can't set a gun on the ground and say, "guard this" and go to sleep. you could a bot. of course then you only need it humanoid so it can interact with tools. nothing says you cant have a killer abio... with built in guns and chainsaws.
There probably will be robot guards, though. I much prefer a house that is also a security tool -- with its own power source, naturally -- but concede that the bot may prove useful in the long run.
Interesting thought: I've never seen a "ghost" but have heard and sometimes seen things that could be so interpreted; apparently dogs can detect things that seem creepy to them. Could robots? I bring in dogs because they aren't going to have had much cultural conditioning in interpreting sense data -- certainly nothing as complex as ghost lore. So what if there's something like sounds or sights to which your bot responds uncharacteristically? What then? (I never found out what sometimes spooks dogs, but their senses of hearing and smell are far more acute than ours and they can see in less light.)
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well. it depends on what senses the robot has. If it sees in a different spectrum than we do, then it should beable to see things we dont... or electromagnetic interference might cause it to react to something it "perceves" as there.. if that is closer to ghost than halluciantion... in the end all that any of can react to is what we perceive.. we have generally agreed that what most of us can sense is reality.. and what the minorty can pick up extra isn't "real"
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I guess it depends on the individual. I'd hate to be attacked by a mistaken robot...
Probably an advantage to a robot whose perceptions are confused is that it might not be able to "fill in the blanks" in its perceptions the way live creatures can.
Probably an advantage to a robot whose perceptions are confused is that it might not be able to "fill in the blanks" in its perceptions the way live creatures can.
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If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it I don't give a rat's ass.
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A possible solution to malfunctions in different types of bots and the use of bots as guards and cops would be to make sure the police bots are definitely recognizeable as machines.
They should also have some kind of kill switch but not one anyone not controlling them would know. (Maybe a word like klaatu?)
They should also have some kind of kill switch but not one anyone not controlling them would know. (Maybe a word like klaatu?)
"You can believe me, because I never lie and I'm always right." -- George Leroy Tirebiter.
If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it I don't give a rat's ass.
http://www.bbotw.com/product.aspx?ISBN=0-7414-4384-8
http://www.bbotw.com/description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-2058-9
If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody there to hear it I don't give a rat's ass.
http://www.bbotw.com/product.aspx?ISBN=0-7414-4384-8
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