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> Use strong language like "must" and "critical" and "never" etc.

Truly we live in the stupidest timeline. Imagine if you had a domestic robot but when you asked it make you breakfast you had to preface your request with “it’s critical that you don’t kill me.”

Or when you asked it to do the laundry you had to remember to tell it that it “must not make its own doors by knocking holes in the wall” and hope that it listens.



> Truly we live in the stupidest timeline.

Wholeheartedly agree. Truly, I look around and see no shortage of evidence for this assertion.

EDITED to make it clear I am agreeing with parent.


There is even a chance our timeline might include that robot too at some point...

Book recommendation no one asked for but which is essentially about some guy living through multiple more or less stupid timelines: Count to Eschaton series by John C. Wright


"Better living through prompt fondling."




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