Thread: Tell me everything you know about ROBOTS!!!

ROBOTS! Go!

They Live Among Us.

I can tell you that this thread didnt belong in ask me about/ tell me about.

Originally Posted by Auron

I can tell you that this thread didnt belong in ask me about/ tell me about.

That's what the robots want us to think! You're a robot!

Also, Soon Ibot will take over IRC, sell it to the Russians, and take over the world Skynet style.

Everything?

Originally Posted by Auron

I can tell you that this thread didnt belong in ask me about/ tell me about.

Originally Posted by DreamViews

In this forum, you may make posts inviting members to ask you about something or posts inviting members to tell you about something.

Originally Posted by Cacophony

Tell me everything you know about ROBOTS!!!

lol moderation fail.

They're going to destroy us all!

They will wear out faster than we do.

Average lifespan of an electronic appliance my friend?

Some people program them to feel but do they really feel anything?

Robots are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're a robot.

They are rediculously hard to build. I've made one of these, though:


Only 50 times shittier.

Paraphrasing here...


0) A robot may do nothing to harm humanity, or, through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.
1) A robot my do nothing to harm a human, or, through inaction allow a human to come to harm, except where that comes in conflict with the zeroth law.
2) A robot must follow orders given by a human except where doing so would conflict with the first or zeroth law.
3) A robot must act to preserve itself except where that would come in conflict with the second, first or zeroth law.

The Three Laws of Robotics...awesome post!

Isaac Asimov was my favorite author. I loved his Robot series of books, and the way it tied in to the Foundation series.

Asimov is an awesome writer and created my favorite sci-fi universe. Some of the science sounds dated now but he's such a good writer that I can easily overlook what would normally enrage me.

Robots, Foundation, and Empire. Great books.

I so wanted to meet him...and then he died. I was sad.

He consulted on movies like Star Trek:The Motion Picture and several of his short stories turned in to movies.


I loved his puns.


A good Robot book.

I read that as the first of three books from "Murder and Robots". The other two were "Naked Sun" and "Robots of Dawn". I've read all the foundation books (I read them first) but haven't read the Empire series. I'll have to get around to it soon.

I think you will like it. They really all tie together so well. I may have to pull them all out and read them again to get a good grasp on everything that I missed the first time.

It's good that he wrote the Laws of Robotics. Some of the best sci-fi authors have done so much to shape our world, and our future, and it's neat to see these visions come to fruition.

You guys are awesome. Also, as a former moderator, I would have left this in the ask me about/tell me about section. I mean - look at the title of the thread!

Cacophony, your posts hurt my eyes to read. The pink might oughta go.

Everything I know about robots? I rather dislike them; they make me feel threatened.

Also they are quite overrated.

Robots are pretty cool, I guess.

People seem to think that robots will overpower us for some reason. Like, in a deadly way.

The thing is, robots only have as much power as we give them.

Also, I'm going to robotics classes this summer. Yay!

Everything I know about robots? I rather dislike them; they make me feel threatened.

Why would you feel threatened by them?

Robots could never replace people.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Why would you feel threatened by them?

Robots could never replace people.

They can't replace us, but they can kill us. Plus, the Defense Department is authorizing the use of fully-automated spy drones. I wouldn't put it past them to have fully-automated missile-strike drones in the future.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Precisely what I find threatening.

But I also know that robots are terrible at being vacuums. HOWEVER: there is a neat lawn-mowing robot where, once you place a perimeter line around the lawn, it adheres it and mows the lawn for you. I'm not sure how one defines "robot" but it's similar to a roomba.

Yeah, see, Roombas are a good idea of robots (assuming all humans being killed is a bad thing, which is debatable). They are described by the creator as insect-like.
That is, they are not intelligent, like the competing Trilobite brand which scans your house's layout and cleans in a spiral pattern toward the centre.
Roombas just scruffle around aimlessly until they hit something, and then move in another direction.
It's actually better at cleaning than the Trilobite too.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

They can't replace us, but they can kill us.

The only way to avoid robots killing us is to become robots. I' m not sure you could define us and us anymore, and one could argue that is in fact how they kill us.
But assuming we just mean our thought processes etc.
We will slowly become more and more electronic, and less biological. Some people we resist and, and then die.