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South Korea administrative robot defunct after apparent suicide (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So it just fell down the stairs, and they are just using suicide as a joke.

[-] Mouselemming 27 points 6 days ago

Or anthropomorphizing it, expressing sympathy for it, in a country with a lot of suicides and a love of robots.

The fact they're not going to just replace it with another robot could argue for either case.

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