Comments on: Video: Can robots ever really have too much power?

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:15:29 +0000

Beautiful. :-) I admire the way the revelations come one at a time, and merely in passing: curfew, robots in Congress, President Executron pandering “to his destroy-all-humans base. Really, though, I think the threat lies in entirely subservient AI agents, remorselessly doing what they’re told by men and women in bureaus.

By: MSGTAS

MSGTAS — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:47:11 +0000

Only our inattention to detail and laziness will offer the proper mix for robots to take over.

However, all machines have one weakness, the IO (Is it On) switch. The only part of the instructions that we need to remember is where that switch is and to reverse its position when necessary.

By: MSGTAS

MSGTAS — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:46:45 +0000

Only our inattention to detail and laziness will offer the proper mix for robots to take over.

However, all machines have one weakness, the IO (Is it On) switch. The only part of the instructions that we need to remember is where that switch is and to reverse its position.

By: homesickamerican

homesickamerican — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:48:00 +0000

i don’t get it.

By: p40tiger

p40tiger — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:35:14 +0000

From the Tribstar article in the Headlines section:

TERRE HAUTE — According to her enemies and much of the national news media, Hillary Rodham Clinton is cold, robotic, calculating, vindictive and about as personable as surgical steel.

Exectutron?!?

By: canopfor

canopfor — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:15:53 +0000

Ummm,ya when the Gort Robot model is teaching
kindergarten,and Terminator is the school pricipal,
me thinks that could lead to problems!

However teacher/parent night would be interesting!

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:51:18 +0000

AP, please put that Onion insignia on the screen from now on, so that I can avoid their boring videos without clicking.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:50:48 +0000

Love the “Goldfinger” electric chair treatment for the skeptic.

By: Dr. Charles G. Waugh

Dr. Charles G. Waugh — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:25:50 +0000

ASIMOV’S LAWS OF ROBOTICS: The Tin Commandments.

By: jerrytbg

jerrytbg — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:33:15 +0000

I’m surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for the clip. Robots! Dude! Robots!

Allahpundit on March 22, 2008 at 3:05 PM

Now, I know it’s a slow news day.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:32:14 +0000

Robot, from the Czech word robota, to work. Essentially a mecho-proletariate. Nothing good comes from creating [chrome-plated] slaves. They always wake up robo-pissed. And these will have Error 404 torches and pitchforks to shut down Civilization with.

By: Claypigeon

Claypigeon — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:23:18 +0000

Yeah, I think Harry Reid is a douche-bot with a defective CPU… Result: doucheness is stuck on “HIGH”.

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:15:25 +0000

Can robots ever really have too much power?

Yes, but it looks like Obama will keep her from even getting the nomination.

By: Outlander

Outlander — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:51:33 +0000

Longtime HA readers know that the answer, unequivocally, is no. Be not moved by “the politics of fear,” my friends.

At what point are you going to start using pictures of Summer Glau for your future robots post? ;-)

By: Oldnuke

Oldnuke — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:21:33 +0000

Robots! Robots! Robots! They're everywhere. We're doomed.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:53:50 +0000

Cheers to you and your son too! Was he a skimmer or a bublehead? Oldnuke on March 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM

A sub guy. He was one of the sailors that would help take out a few quadrants of lat/long. If we r-e-a-l-l-y needed to do that.

By: irishspy

irishspy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:25:06 +0000

I’d vote for President Executron!

(Of course, that’s what the chip in my head just told me to type…)

By: CyberCipher

CyberCipher — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:15:47 +0000

Not to worry. rObama will save us.

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:35:15 +0000

Mazztek, I think that we all know what’s going on… Akzed on March 22, 2008 at 2:43 PM

I know. I just found the keylogger on my computer and hidden video camera in my apartment. And, remember, no one has ever seen AllahPundit. Also, they've never seen AP and KP together in the same room. So, KP is stalking me, an using the "guise" of AP to fool the left, because she's really a Righty. Makes sense.

By: calbear

calbear — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:34:14 +0000

I’m surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for the clip. Robots! Dude! Robots!

I'm not. The Onion. Dude: The Onion.

By: Hummer53

Hummer53 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:13:46 +0000

I don’t know. I thought Al Gore had too much power.

By: Oldnuke

Oldnuke — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:02:38 +0000

Mojave Mark on March 22, 2008 at 3:53 PM

Cheers to you and your son too! Was he a skimmer or a bublehead?

By: James OK

James OK — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:54:12 +0000

Did he say “organ sacks”?

If so, that’s some funny right there.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:53:44 +0000

Oldnuke on March 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM
My son was a nuke too. Cheers!

By: Oldnuke

Oldnuke — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:30:30 +0000

Mojave Mark on March 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM

Being a former Navy Guy I prefer to stand off in orbit and glass the planet. Navy does the flyin’ MI does the dyin’. Robots don’t stand no chance no how.