{"id":1585,"date":"2014-09-18T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T00:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:57:11","slug":"dont-trust-robots-dont-trust-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dont-trust-robots-dont-trust-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t trust robots, and I don&#8217;t trust monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dont-trust-robots-dont-trust-monkeys\/\" data-text=\"I don&#038;%238217;t trust robots, and I don&#038;%238217;t trust monkeys\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>With the exception of my (future) \u00a0Manhattan Project BarBot, maker of the &#8220;Perfect&#8221; Manhattan. \u00a0I&#8217;m gonna <em>love<\/em> that guy&#8230;err&#8230;thing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_360\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/finally-a-guide-to-efficient-drinking\/manhattan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-360\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/manhattan.jpg\" alt=\"Like This\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/manhattan.jpg 183w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/manhattan-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;perfect&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written a few posts about my skepticism of Robotic Technology, referring (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek to the coming Robot Revolution. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also written a few posts about the differences between humans and animals, and now there&#8217;s information about a similarity that humans and chimpanzees share. \u00a0And it&#8217;s why I say &#8220;never trust a chimp&#8221;. \u00a0Turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/09\/18\/chimpanzees-are-natural-born-killers-study-says-and-they-prefer-mob-violence\/?tid=hp_mm&amp;hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">Chimpanzees are natural born killers, and they prefer mob violence.<\/a>\u00a0 Apparently this is not new information to researchers, you just don&#8217;t hear about it because no one wants to think of cute little animals as potential murderers. \u00a0That&#8217;s right, I said murderers. \u00a0Chimps don&#8217;t kill for food. \u00a0They kill <em>each other<\/em>. \u00a0Just like us. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that sweet?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we can only guess at the motives because chimps haven&#8217;t mastered language &#8211; <em>yet<\/em>. \u00a0So it&#8217;s going to be Robots or Chimps. \u00a0We&#8217;re screwed either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet With the exception of my (future) \u00a0Manhattan Project BarBot, maker of the &#8220;Perfect&#8221; Manhattan. \u00a0I&#8217;m gonna love that guy&#8230;err&#8230;thing. &nbsp; But I digress. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written a few posts about my skepticism of Robotic Technology, referring (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek to the coming Robot Revolution. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}