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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Why would robots make robots in child form?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Same reason I made a child

Incredible foolishness

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One molecule 3.7 billion years ago found out how to replicate and it's been down hill ever since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I suspect that's how we all came into this world.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

If they're calling a brain their original processor, these robots could be a result of successful transhumanism rather than conventional robots, ie, they could be humans that have made themselves into robots, rather than robots built for some specific purpose. In that case, they might create child robots and grow them over time to reproduce, just because they find that mode of reproduction familiar and wish to continue it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Tight space requirements.

The childbots yearn for the tubes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Almost as interesting as a robot who builds a museum.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Could just be a compact model, the big one could just be stupidly pointing out the obvious to a far more advanced compact model that's just given a lecture on the history of robotic processors.

The compact advanced model might just be about to say "Very good, I'm glad you were listening".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Maybe it’s a Grow-bot…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And why must the child-bot be so thicc?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Title of your autobiography.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I like to imagine that the childbots are made in the image of the parentbots, and the childbots eventually are tasked with picking out preferred larger parts as a growing rite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Small hands. Good for thievin', as the Ravagers say.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

The original processor would be far smaller and simpler. It took millions of years of evolution before that one showed up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Shit can't even do math without errors, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You can run DOOM on E.Coli bacteria, so I'm sure you can run it on anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Predates the 8086, truly a marvel of the transition point of biological to mechanical engineering.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

next iteration, the borg, biomech engineering

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed Machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

But I am already saved. For the Machine is immortal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago