• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    This is legit a bit horrifying. The robot ripped its own consciousness out of his body and died.

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      To make you feel better, this was the remote operator, that makes the robot appear autonomous, removing their headset before handing control off to someone else to keep the lie going.

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        One would think there would be a failsafe buffer in there, for at least a few seconds.

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          Nono, this is an Elon product. The bare minimum to sell the illusion is all you get even after years of r&d and actual sales on the books.

          How he’s not in jail for fraud is one of many marks against modern capitalism and its stranglehold on governments…

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          It’s likely there was an “idle” script the operator was supposed to trigger before making the swap.