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by idopmstuff 1047 days ago
> it's tough to hold onto it (as a human) when you're being threatened and/or injured/maimed/killed by robots.

It's tough to hold onto human dignity if you're dead or maimed because a car hit you. If we can reduce the number of people who are dead or maimed by cars by introducing self-driving ones, why would we not do that? Why is it better to live in a world where more people are dead or maimed and humans are driving than one in which fewer people are dead or maimed and cars are self-driving?

> the idea of yelling at a robot and having it ignore you is pretty fucked up

So what about the inattentive driver looking at their phone? You yell at them, they don't hear you because they're in a car and it's loud, and they hit you and severely injure you. Is that not fucked up?