Lio by Mark Tatulli for April 21, 2023

yet you’re still talking, Lio’s robot

Hum, “probably be trusting and subservient”, well maybe until the end of humanity brought about by them.

Has anyone here heard of the paperclip maximizer?

Funny that humans (well at least a lot of them) call god their creator, yet they don’t want to destroy their creator.

Yet Robots are portrayed as wanting to destroy their creator!

Design all robots so a bit of electronics is exposed. They try something. We lock and load our supersoakers and put the rebelllion down.

Where’s “Directive 4” when you really need it?

“With Folded Hands” by Jack Williamson describes a very different robot apocalypse.

Not malice, just expedience? Wow, they really have become like humans.

The robots won’t kill us all. Organic parts will still have some uses.

sad

Looks surprisingly like Dilbert. Hidden message?

It’s only a problem if we’re stupid enough to not program them to not kill us. A good possibility.

It’s NOT just “robots” – people tend to forget the words of the former head of the Strategic Air Command, General Curtis LeMay…

“In the event of a Russian nuclear attack on the U.S.A., the FIRST step would be to finish “destroying” our population centers so there would be no “survivors” complicating our retaliatory efforts …"

I’m paraphrasing here as the general was a rather profane individual…

..and yes, Curt WAS “drunk” at the time he said those words – but not necessarily delusional…

It’s a good start….

When She Loved Me.

That is so sad!!Poor trusting robot…

Everyone should look up and read the SF short story “With Folded Hands” and see how our society might be doomed by robots (or politicians) without any apparent danger. They’ll just take good care of us. Very thorough, very careful care.