Tiny ideas (techfolk/human interactions)
Humans are a fun stim toy for Polycephaly. Like a weighted fidget that's got a soft outer covering. And it squirms and makes cute noises.
Rivalry (or even robot racism) between robots made by humans and units made by other robots. ('Ha ha, your mum was a meatbag'.)
Something about Saul Steinberg's 1949 self-portrait1 tickles my brain. On the one hand, it doesn't look like a person; it's just abstract lines. But on the other hand, it totally looks like a person relaxing! I'd love to know what robots would make of stuff like this. Would they agree with me, or would they not parse it as a person? What might their equivalent to this be? Might they draw abstract self-portraits that an untrained human can't parse?
- There's so much comedy potential in robots trying to make food for a human and completely fucking it up because they don't understand food. Like, giving a human a bowl of salt because sodium is a requirement for nerve impulses, right? The human: "I will literally die if I consume that."
I can't find a definitive source on that piece; I really want a better one than a Reddit post.↩