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WCDT Strips 3591-3595 (16th to 20th October 2017)

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SotFX:

--- Quote from: Roborat on 20 Oct 2017, 11:27 ---Wow, that is one laid back robot, apparently nothing bothers him.  Nice contrast to Roko.

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Part of the situation is that we're not seeing the immediate aftermath of the incident.

It might also be possible that some of the emotional triggers can be switched off in a robot body, especially since a lot of the chassis like his are seemingly more designed for more industrial work even if Punchbot isn't in one.

Hell, that would actually be a very good "safety" feature for bots that can feel pain or some of the extreme emotional responses. For example, being able to not panic and make an injury worse if you can keep your head. Things like a nailgun misfire into someones foot and into the floor, yanking that foot around is going to both make things worse for you, but also cause a lot more pain and make it harder to get out.

Having a safeguard installed to deal with that might make sense.

With things like the butt falling off, well, that's more malfunction than damage in the way it happens, even if you still need repair after it. Same as both being sick and injured tend to lead to the doctors...

Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said in one Q&A that they don't feel pain but they've absofragginlutely GOT to have damage sensors. The world is not safe.

A Duck:
That is the best of both worlds. You get the functional response of pain without any of the negative emotions surrounding it.

Of course, that does apparently lead into casual dismemberment, but if the AI in question doesn't care, I guess it's ok.

Mr_Rose:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Oct 2017, 17:32 ---Jeph said in one Q&A that they don't feel pain but they've absofragginlutely GOT to have damage sensors. The world is not safe.

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Whoever manufactured May's body cheaped out on the sensors; she was wholly unaware she had an arm fall off one time. Which likely also means her chassis either doesn’t have proprioception, or just doesn’t pass the data to her. Which seems ridiculous on the face of it….

Tova:
Or possibly, because the arm has been chronically damaged, the sensors had been going off for some time and she'd simply learned to ignore them. Which, I guess, is the down side of not having pain to compel you to do something about it.

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