I assume this some kind of philosophical metaphor but as someone who isn’t into random acts of animal cruelty i have to ask for the answer.
Why not help?
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ScrollerBall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It’s a quote from the movie Blade Runner. It’s meant to produce involuntary emotional responses in humans, to tell them apart from robots.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If I’m not helping, I imagine there must be some unmentioned factor, such as someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to do that otherwise bad things would happen to me. Or I was slipped some drug that forced me to be a sadist. Without any other factor, I don’t imagine myself doing that at all in the first place.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
100% robot.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
What's a tortoise?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A land turtle.
ChrisMcMillan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shield toad rather. Frosch vs. Kröte
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh, I thought a toad and frog were synonymous
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
MRAP lizard
AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
I've never seen a turtle, but I understand what you mean.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It shocks me how many people haven’t seen the movie
fixmycode@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
Did you buy a present for the person you love? Within cells interlinked.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Cells. Cells within cells. Within cells. Interlinked.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Well that was a risky click, honestly, I expected something much more explicit, more like the wall of Mortys or something.
Klear@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Easy - childhood trauma from watching a spider get devoured by its kids. I’m no skinjob =D
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
… because I am examining the underside of the tortoise, to try and make out any significant details… because I am utterly befuddled as to how a tortoise came to be in the middle of a vast desert.
Presumably, I am in the American Southwest, but if I can possibly specify the species of tortoise, I may be able to discern whether I am in the Mojave, Sonora, or Colorado desert.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seems complicated when modern technology can just use a checkbox to know of you are a robot or not. It shows the book was written in the seventies.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Current multimodal models can pass those with ease iirc
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The tortoise was Hamas.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Because I’m so frigging hot, I’m so frigging thirsty, I’m so hungry, that I think I’m hallucinating the turtle. I’ve been trudging through a desert way and now a turtle pops up in the desert out of nowhere. Is the turtle even real, can I not distinguish reality anymore … would eating it help quench my thirst and anger? Is it wrong to feel no emotion?
I don’t think the test itself is designed to measure emotional response so much as the emotional nuance and the 35 ms latency delay glitch in the Nexus-5 models when dealing with it.
mech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I can’t assist with that. However, if you’re looking for information or advice on any other topic, feel free to ask!