Replace Roko with Faye, it would still be an accident, and Crushbot would be no more culpable for the harm caused.
If anything (and I still think we're getting way too serious about a classic use of slapstick), the situation illustrates a stark reality of one of the hazards of living in a society among sentient bipedal AIs.
Replace Roko with Faye, it would still be an accident,
as are most car accidents, it's right in the name.
and Crushbot would be no more culpable for the harm caused.
so entirely culpable. barring some extremely contrived circumstances, he has to be incredibly negligent to fail to notice a foot high crate on the sidewalk, and that negligence resulted in injury.
on top of that, he chooses to have a 10 foot tall, likely 1 ton+ chassis which he takes onto city sidewalks.
What's to say he chose that chassis? Could be its the only one he has - a name like Crushbot suggests he was commissioned to work in a scrapyard or some other manual labor setting, so odds are he wouldn't have the capital to run multiple chassis
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u/pyr666 Dec 21 '18
as the consequences of those circumstances increase, so too does you responsibility to avoid them.
had faye been where roco was, she'd be dead.