I saw an interview with a roboticist who writes fiction about how to survive a robot uprising. Maybe it's just the early morning quiet, but one of the things he said stuck with me. <blockquote>“My robots do not throw people across rooms, then slowly stalk toward them. If by some odd quirk a humanoid robot has to kill a person (and a more specialized cousin is not available for the task), then this robot will grab the person by the face and close its fist. End of story.”</blockquote>
There's a name for a slow stalking. Persistence hunting. Who are the original persistence hunters? Us.
We're not faster than most animals, we're not stronger, but we have excellent endurance. We don't leap out and kill quickly like a cheetah or wolf, we wear down the prey.Maybe I'm over thinking it, but it's funny how the things we make resemble us; even if we don't mean for them to.
There's a name for a slow stalking. Persistence hunting. Who are the original persistence hunters? Us.
We're not faster than most animals, we're not stronger, but we have excellent endurance. We don't leap out and kill quickly like a cheetah or wolf, we wear down the prey.Maybe I'm over thinking it, but it's funny how the things we make resemble us; even if we don't mean for them to.
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