fuckyeahsciencefiction:

Red light morality scale

“I understand human emotions, although I do not feel them myself.”

(via stampedes)

If you are building a robot and it in any way starts to resemble this image, you really should stop before something bad happens.

(“Building a badbot” by nael)

First off, let me say that Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a hilarious movie, and by hilarious I mean terrible. Seriously, your high school AV club could do a shot-for-shot remake of this movie and have it look like 2001: A Space Odyssey in comparison. But just because a movie is bad — even if that movie is so bad as to be almost unwatchable — doesn’t mean it can’t offer us an example of why robots are bad. Case in point: Torg. Torg looks stupid and he acts stupid. Heck, it’s pretty clear Torg is just a couple of cardboard boxes covered with tinfoil. So, you might ask, “How can Torg, a clumsy oaf inside a refrigerator box, be representative of silicon evil incarnate?” Answer: Torg tries to destroy Santa Claus and Christmas. I don’t care if you are made of paper board and your buttons are drawn on with a Sharpie, if you try and destroy Santa Claus and stop Christmas from coming, then you, sir, are an evil, evil, bad robot.