Comments on: HOWTO survive a robot uprising (just add water)

By: Andrew Pam

Andrew Pam — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:45:00 +0000

See also “Accelerando” by Charles Stross.

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:56:00 +0000

The article provided you with an answer. You didn’t read it, so sarcastic dickery is your appointed lot.

By: Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:30:00 +0000

I don’t believe I’ve actually ever LOL’d, but the baseball question was a first. Now I would just like to see a Randall + Mythbusters team up episode.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:53:00 +0000

if you actually read the ‘what if’ you would have gotten your answers.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Thing is, Randall has lapped all of you and your acting like he just caught up.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:49:00 +0000

Not robots. Rather, remote-controlled machines.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:20:00 +0000

They might like animals.

They might be religious.

They might consider themselves to be „the humans” and us embarrassing.

They might have reasoning that’s totally alien to us.

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:09:00 +0000

This complements nicely with Mark Meadows’s “We, Robot,” which I’m halfway through.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:06:00 +0000

If you bothered to click through, xkcd would have provided you with an answer.

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:47:00 +0000

Unfortunately, the robot that develops sentience first will be the first robot manufactured for mass production: the Roomba. Because we are ugly fleshy things, we are obviously ‘UNCLEAN’, and because its sentience derives directly from its original programming, well…

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:14:00 +0000

Why won't anyone take my earnest concerns about the US military seriously in this thread about the XKCD guy doing stick figure cartoons about the robopocalypse? Oh, why?

By: Steve Hoefer

Steve Hoefer — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:13:00 +0000

If advanced robots decided humans were a problem they wouldn’t destroy us, they’d just leave the planet and take over the rest of the universe. Seriously, we don’t have anything they want. And why mess with some annoying biological material at the bottom of a gravity well full of dirt when you can make yourself into a spaceship and have the universe at your beck and call? The only danger to humans is that some of us might get trampled in the rush to leave the planet.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:40:00 +0000

Finally, someone provided me with an answer, without being a sarcastic dick about it. Thanks.

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:27:00 +0000

The drones are generally piloted by humans. Just not humans anywhere near the drones. In his scenario, the drones that are in the air are indeed deadly until they run out of missiles; the ones that are not in the air are stuck wherever they are, like a Roomba in the closet.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:12:00 +0000

Oh yea, my evil “maybe you shouldn’t be indiscriminately bombing people from the air using drones piloted from thousands of miles away based on the most vague evidence” agenda. What a sad world.

By: flosofl

flosofl — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:58:00 +0000

He mentions drones, but you go ahead and insert your agenda here.

By: Repurposed

Repurposed — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:38:00 +0000

My Kindle was pretty slow last week. I also somehow double posted on Facebook.

Thus began the most passive-aggressive uprising ever.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:35:00 +0000

Thats cute, but your forgetting the death from above, the drones that are already killing hundred’s maybe even thousands of people per year. All thanks to government immunity.

By: ADM

ADM — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:19:00 +0000

That reminds me of this short, but compelling, documentary about an actual robot uprising that occurred back in the year 2000:

https://vimeo.com/46796178