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Kicking Robots

38 pointsby Hooke12/06/20257 commentsview on HN

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oxfeed65261last Thursday at 5:57 PM

https://archive.ph/Ecmai

‘You can learn a surprising amount by kicking things. It’s an epistemological method you often see deployed by small children, who target furniture, pets, and their peers in the hope of answering important questions about the world. Questions like “How solid is this thing?” and “Can I knock it over?” and “If I kick it, will it kick me back?”’

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1970-01-01yesterday at 5:05 PM

Robots are the slaves we deserve. I am free to shoot them, light them on fire, and disassemble them for fun. Call the police if you don't like it. Have me arrested. Prove in a courtroom that this is cruel behavior.