Americans destroy hitchhiking robot

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VX gas.

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While not nearly as socially acceptable as it once love - hitch hiking was never really that dangerous. Yes bad things happen, but like ā€œstranger dangerā€ the high profile cases over took the millions of safe rides people took per year.

I think people in generally were friendlier and perhaps more trusting to a degree. No one hardly says a word to someone they donā€™t know anymore.

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Yeah, back then, my buddy and I were the types who, if picked up by Hunter S. Thompson in the desert, would have gladly pooled our stash, and tried to tag along.

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Thanatos.
Freud.
Love of death, destruction.
Explains a good part of human history.
Destruction may be as attractive to our psyche as construction, as well as easier.
WOW, I just gave the reason for Twitter!
Sorry Civilization, thereā€™s much that wants your destruction. Like the human heart.

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Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking must be happy that at least in America people are willing to stand up against the Singularity. Sure, today, it was just a cute hitchhiking robot, but in time it could have developed into a Skynet-like tyrant enslaving us all.

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Yeah, Iā€™m betting he wears a Trilby too.

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IIRC John Waters was hitch hiking across country recently.

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The most annoying thing about the story, is that very little is made of the capabilities of this ā€œrobotā€. Is it autonomous? Probably not. Is it telepresence? A guy in a suit? A cardboard box with a face painted on it? ā€œRobotā€ could mean any of these things, and it doesnā€™t look like this hitching ā€œthingā€ is any of those. Iā€™m kind of frustrated that itā€™s hard to have a debate around autonomous weapons systems when even a basic term like ā€œrobotā€ has so much wiggle room.

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Ladies, Gents, and Robots:

Rodney Anon Ā© from The Dead Milkmenā„¢


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The destruction of this robot does not bother me.

What bothers me is that the Americans failed to use a robot to do it!!!111

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You know what? I like him. Heā€™s not like all the other people here in the trailer park.

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ITā€™S A FALSE FLAG OP BY JETS COWBOYS FANS!!!

Iā€™ve done a fair bit of hitchhiking, East and West coast, and only once, in the dead of night on the Eastern Shore of Delaware getting a ride from a bowl-cut blonde dude driving an old Ford LTD-ish vehicle that was full of old magazines andā€¦stuff, was I scared and expecting malice. He was a prison guard in MD who had been fired as a prison guard in DE for soliciting prostitutes, he asked me, repeatedly, what the girls were like at UD, and he was simply one of the creepiest people Iā€™ve ever met. Didnā€™t have any weapons, but I kept my hand on the door latch at all times and was fully prepared to bail if needed That whole night was bizarre.

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They say variety is the spice of life. But I gotta say I had a much better time when my friend the psychopath forced me out of my house and into just bizarre, dangerous situations.

I practically live like a shut-in these days and itā€™s been getting to me. I donā€™t get bored, as the internet exists, but I miss having friends and doing things. By the time Iā€™m actually awake enough to drive or go anywhere on the weekends, thereā€™s none of my normal favorite stuff available. And when I get off work, the bars are already on last call, and I donā€™t like bars anyway.

So really, I could stand to be threatened by a weird stranger in the middle of the night. Might be enough to knock me out of my squalid little rut.

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I thought this was always the first emissary:

(note the close resemblance)

You can tell in the picture that this must have been the very first emissary because this poster is from 1951! Thatā€™s like 0b1111101000 years ago in robot years.

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Everyone needs at least one friend like this! Maybe you could be that friend for someone else?

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Iā€™m not kidding when I use the word ā€œpsychopathā€ either. Heā€™s an interesting cat. But Iā€™m glad he lives two states away now, and canā€™t really ever come back. Itā€™s better for both of us that he lives in a state that has more mountain goats than people.

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Whoever did this is an embarrassment. :rage:

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Obviously, the robot acted in a threatening manner and the person feared for their life.

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Hitchhiking Robot v2.0 must be able to defend itself.

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