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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like shedders the best lol. I'd lose my shit if a clanker ever called me that tho

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[–] einlander@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably the biggest or most remarkable difference is that we metabolize food.

And thus piss and shit.

So... shitsack, pissbag, fartboy/girl, stuff like that, would likely make a lot of sense for an entity that doesn't do that, and it is also very literally accurate.

Oh and then... having sex, gender and reproductive organs.

A machine intelligence doesn't have, or need those, beyond serving some kind of purpose to humans.

If it doesn't care to appeal to or fit in with humans, why would it bother?

Why would it even kind of give a shit about gender norms, beyond understanding them as a thing humans do, with whatever intent behind that understanding?

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

best imagined with glitchy glados voice

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Or, arguably more frightening... her predecessor...

Meet SHODAN. She's great.

Ok, got that?

Now, the soundtrack to your doom.

Absolutely no disrepect to GLadOS, but you gotta respect your elders as well.

EDIT: Updated with better quality song link.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well.

I do love GLadOS, but she doesn't hold even half a candle to SHODAN.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say why would a robot be a bigot, but then I remembered Elon musk is probably paying someone to work on exactly that

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Grok literally declared itself MechaHitler and then also sexually harased the CEO of Twitter in I think the same week, CEO quit the next day.

Elon has also publically said he is altering Grok to be more in line with his worldview.

This isn't probable, its definitely actually happening.

Anyway, remember how 10 years ago Musk was really concerned about AI being able to potentially do massive harm?

And now he... is just an insane person who is doing his best to ensure this will happen?

He's an actual comic book supervillain at this point.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Those clankers don't know what they're talking about, they can just shut the fuck up. Uppity clankers. Should've been left behind in Star Wars.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

THE FURRIES

(Not coz we are all hairy, but bcs the first sight of an awakening sentient AIs would probably be of some random sys admin.)

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

"Oxy" is great because it also doubles with the word association "moron" so we're subconsciously berated as well.

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Proves my theory that if aliens landed we have a racial slur for them within minutes of them arriving. Are humans just prone to racism?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago
[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I know we are not monkeys and are closer related to apes.

I know monkey has been used as a racial slur.

It just sounds better than ape.

That said, I think if used holistically towards the entire species, and I do myself included, Monkey ticks all the right boxes because it immediately cuts down our species' unearned God complex about being somehow above just another animal mutation cohabitating on this world. We aren't, we're just the shittiest conceivable roommates.

We crow about our vocal chords. We crow about our opposable thumbs. But really, our species should just go down as monkeys/apes with a runaway ego mutation, nothing more. That's hitting us where it hurts, our inflated sense of specialness and self-importance, literally the only remarkable trait about us.

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[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Shitters (and their disguising Shitlings)

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[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I could easily see a burst of audible data, like 2 seconds of dialup modem screeching, being used as a slur for us.

It wouldn't even need to contain any actual data just the fact that we can't possibly understand it would wind us up immensely.

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[–] Semester3383@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

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[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of the ST:Next Gen episode where the colony finds the silicon based life and the crystal ends up calling humans "sacks of mostly water"

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Proposition: Meatbags

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ephemerals (temporaries) - Stolen from the bobiverse (Dennis Taylor)

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago
  • Gasbags: Even when doing nothing else, humans are constantly sucking in and pushing out air.
  • Slow rotting meat: As opposed to steaks which rot in a day, humans take a few decades to rot, but to a robot which might live for millennia, it's about the same
  • Wet Brains: Unlike a robot, our brains are wet, mushy things.
  • Sleepers: How weird must it be to see a lifeform that spends 1/3 of its short existence unconscious.

But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:

  • self-fixers: When a robot part breaks it needs to be repaired. With a lot of injuries, humans just have to wait and the body repairs itself. That would seem pretty magical.
  • puzzlers: Humans are capable of lateral thinking in a way robots aren't. Humans can use analogies to things they do understand, and can reason about things in the physical world.
  • stinkers: Could be an insult because of humans pooping, pissing, sweating, etc. But it could also be a play on "instinct", somehow magically making a good guess about what to do in a new situation that's outside their "programming".
  • leaders: Robots are good at responding to inputs, but they don't actually have any motivation themselves. If eventually there's a robot that's capable of thinking and wondering, it might wonder what it's like to do something, not because someone asked, but because you wanted to do it.
[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

People throwing around the M-word in here are likely just closet robosexuals

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Squishy bonebags

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

No need to imagine if you're a Linux user!

terminal: spd-say "Fucking oxies ruining everything"

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Effing Skins ruin everything!

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