• Madagaskar_sky
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    10 days ago

    Why was that ever in consideration to begin with? Have there been other outbreaks of evil among robots? What algorithm decides the robot has turned evil? Are we sure they didn’t just turn the LED red because the Robot Worker’s unionisation vote passed at the last meeting?

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      9 days ago

      UX testing. They found that people appreciated the red eyes glowing before the robots killed them.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      Now I’m thinking about it. Maybe the default is red, but there’s some subroutine that changes to blue for the comfort of humans. That way, if the robot stops caring about the comfort of humans, the eyes naturally turn red as a warning sign.