Why scientists want robots to learn to feel pain

Washington Post ^

[discostu]

Not silly. Programming. Even within their own audience. Sure they could call it “learning algorithm for the detection of and future avoidance of possible damaging behavior”, but why bother with all that when everybody knows and understands what pain is and how you could use an analog of that to teach the robot.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Q. Why would scientists want robots to feel pain?

A. Sick answer: Makes for a better sexbot.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Positronic brain.

[Rockpile]

If researchers want the robots to feel real pain
make them read the WaPo editorial page.

[BenLurkin]

Or worse, make them read the pinkos who post in the WaPo comments sections.

[I want the USA back]

A robot can’t feel pain. Simulated pain is not pain.
Simulated emotions are not emotions.

[Safetgiver]

Simulated emotions are not emotions.....Oh, come now. I do that every night with my girlfriend. Before I roll over and snore.

[Springman]

I “push the button” for four robots at an auto parts plant.
New people say I have the easiest job, until my girls have their “time of the month”. Then nobody wants to be around me or them!!!

[Faith Presses On]

More like react to pain. Only living beings can feel.