> anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will.
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Google search for pictures of ships is now completely unusable except for the bit where I have a sense of humor.
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Sorry, what's the image? I'm blind and there's no alt text.
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Bomb teams hate sending their bomb robots into harm's way which is a little bit the POINT of a bomb robot. Because human's love to bond with their little buddies.
This is a problem.
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there's a game (Lone Echo) where the main character is a robot named Jack
when he takes too much damage, he just transfers to a newly printed "shell"
i think this is a pretty good way to allow the bonding because if the old hardware gets destroyed, just deploy another shell
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Evolution most likely. If you obsess, to the point of actually loving, your tools, you will take good care of them
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Since having a kid, a real one, I don’t think I’d be like this.
This kind of bonding instinct is for my kid. I’d unflinchingly send WALL-E to his fiery death.
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One of my friends is a professor in the field of Human Computer Interaction, and the stories she has about humans bonding with their robot coworkers! So adorable.
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You could probably cut down on this a bit by having the robot address its operator with appropriate racial slurs
OTOH in the military this might make the problem *worse*
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