this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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It's been 20 or 30 years since I last saw it, but wasn't the only robot the Good Guy? Because these robots are just tools for the villains of real life to better oppress people..
The cyborg, RoboCop was a good guy. But even he had programming blocking him from opposing or harming the crooks that headed the corporation that built his robotic body and they were not good guys at all. They also had the fully robotic walking tanks Ed 209, that did their bidding fully (when not experiencing bugs).
You have ten seconds to comply! Rawr!
Yeah that was fixed the very next firmware update.
No, the cyborg (personhood, empathy) is the hero, the hulking robots are unthinking beasts that follow the commands of their human masters...