- I have no mouth and I must scream. 
 
- Only if they confirm it can experience consciousness and tremendous amounts of pain will they deploy them on a large scale industrial 24/day meaningless jobs. 
 The system demands blood.- It needs to have the intelligence of a 5 year old at minimum before we send it to the mines, so it can feel it 
 
- From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. - All hail the Omnessiah! 
 
- That raises a lot of ethical concerns. It is not possible to prove or disprove that these synthetic homunculi controllers are sentient and intelligent beings. - There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article: - …researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment - that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment - In a couple years, they’ll be able to make Trump voters. 
- Some amphibians have less than two million. - And they are ceos! 
 
 
- Nah it’s okay. I was called all sorts of names and told I was against progress when I raised such concerns, so obviously I was wrong… 
 
- deleted by creator - I am a poorly trained large language model with legs, nice to meet you. 
 
- Ah, the Torment Nexus is coming along nicely I see. 
- Murderbot. - Murrrderbooooot. - 800,000 brain cells played pong. - Creepy. - That’s murderbot’s ancestor. - Has it asked for any soap operas yet? - A scant couple hundred thousand more brain cells and we’ll be there. - Cheap shot, I’ve never dared a soap opera myself. 
 
 
- Is there any actual evidence of any of this? Why not show some of the “brains-in-a-jar” walking around? - It’s just a bunch of huckster promotion, “infographics”, and phony pictures of Krang. The only actual photos are a few tiny petri dishes. There are no “brains” controlling robots. - The grift is strong and travels far beyond any national border. 
- Even in death, I serve the Emperor 
 - Where are my testicles Summer? 
 
 - They are creating Metroids! 
 
 
- This came up in my Discover feed and I initially assumed it was a fake news site. Unfortunately all the things in the article are indeed real (aside from the robo-brains which they note are mock ups). The brain cells learning to play Pong made the news last year. Combine this with the creepy as hell skin grafted onto a robot and you have nightmare fuel for life. 






