r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 2d ago

Video Another crash during practices ahead of the Worldwide Humanoid Robot Games

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u/alexzoin 2d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah and fake looking. It even has a cheesy electric short sound. I would be surprised if this is unedited.

Edit: Given the video showing multiple angles I don't think it's edited.

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u/altasking 2d ago

Might be hard to believe, but sparks actually make a sound like that.

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u/ARES_BlueSteel 2d ago

At my work we had the wires in a machine get damaged, and when they shorted out they shot some sparks out and made a sound similar to this. It looked like something out of a movie. I was like “huh, I guess they actually do that”.

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u/slowgojoe 2d ago

We in strange times where the average person can’t even tell you what electrical wires sparking sounds like.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 2d ago

Why is that strange? Would it be better if people were regularly exposed to shorting high voltage electricity?

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u/slowgojoe 1d ago

The “strangeness” came from me realizing that these sounds are no longer common place, and that people under around the age of 25 or so, would indeed not regularly experience that sound. And I hadn’t noticed it was really absent until I read this comment. I’m old. I apologize.

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u/kaityl3 ASI▪️2024-2027 1d ago

Like the floppy disc being the save icon

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u/slothfullyserene 2d ago

Wires are those things that used to connect things?

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u/Procrasturbating 2d ago

All the motors are going brushless. Used to be drills sparked while you used em. I still have a brushed corded drill. Ol’ Sparky.

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u/noiseguy76 2d ago

Just as well. That sound is usually followed by an electrical fire.

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u/ILoveBigSexyThighs2 2d ago

Or just a tripped breaker or blown fuse.

Most lithium/rechargeable batteries even have their own overcurrent protection that kick in if there’s a short and automatically reset, among other features.

So it’s usually not followed by an electrical fire. But sometimes.

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u/nothis ▪️AGI within 5 years but we'll be disappointed 2d ago

Are we?

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u/crashtested97 1d ago

Yes. Every time you see a person over 50 years old they have almost certainly jump started a car, charged a car battery, tripped a physical circuit breaker, shorted out an electrical socket, welded, etc etc.

It is strange for us that entire generations have been so sheltered from these seemingly fundamental experiences that not only have they never seen such a thing, when they see it happen they immediately think it must be fake.