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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 153 points 1 year ago
[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 year ago
[-] brap@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I came here to say the exact same thing.

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

“But master! That would be a waste of my genius programming!”

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[-] Shareni@programming.dev 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ET? Does she imagine robots basking in the sun to gather heat?

Also:

  • Meatbag
  • Fleshwad
  • Skintube
  • Flesh-piles
  • Organ-sacks
  • Sack of skin
  • Coffin stuffers

Bender Bending Rodríguez

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The correct answer is “meatbags”

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[-] prex@aussie.zone 74 points 1 year ago

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

The number of times I find myself using that quote is a lot higher than you'd expect.

[-] brosaph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have an old bandmate saved in my phone as meat popsicle, but i can't remember why.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Did he show up at your door to arrest you?

[-] sopelj@lemmings.sopelj.ca 47 points 1 year ago
[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 8 points 1 year ago

Humans are nowhere near 99% water.

[-] lemjukes@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago
[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Humans are nowhere near 90% water.

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 year ago

Dont forget "Meatbag", because Star Wars the Old Republic didn't.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

HK-47 is one of the best RPG companions of all time.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] ManuLeMaboul@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Futurama already coined the perfect one, meat bags.

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[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.

[-] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I mean you've missed the obvious one for a biological.

"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Fry: Look how ridiculous they look.

Bender: Please, he’s no different from the rest of you organisms; shooting DNA at each other make babies. I find it offensive.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Fucking rustbox, come and get me! I can swim in salt water!

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 year ago
[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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?

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] halvar@lemy.lol 11 points 1 year ago

best imagined with glitchy glados voice

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

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 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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 year ago
[-] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year 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 year ago
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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 year ago
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[-] Semester3383@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that HK-47 called humans meatbags.

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[-] wiccan2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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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