192: Murderous Roomba

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Danger, Will Robinson! It’s time to think outside the bots. We follow up our computer draft with a draft of favorite robots, androids, and other artificial intelligences. Also, we debate a whole lot about what makes a robot different from a computer. Kill all humans!

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 192, April 2014.
0:12.6	Welcome back to The Incomparable podcast, the podcast that should be renamed the draft cast,
0:17.4	because when in doubt I like to draft things and I like to have people draft things.
0:22.2	And I thought this would be a funny idea.
0:24.5	And so, tonight, we are drafting robots slash androids.
0:29.9	Basically, they can't be computers.
0:31.7	We drafted computers in our Mac World Expo episode this year.
0:35.0	They need to be sort of mobile.
0:37.4	But they can be robots or
0:38.9	androids or, you know, the judges can judge about other sorts of things, but ideally
0:43.5	kind of autonomous artificial life forms from all of space and time, from all different
0:49.2	kinds of TV and movies and books and comics and anything else you can think of.
0:55.0	Uh,
0:55.1	so we're going to...
0:55.8	From real life?
0:56.4	Can we include real life?
0:57.6	You sure.
0:58.7	Awesome.
0:59.2	Fine.
1:00.3	If you want to do that, Steve, go right ahead.
1:02.7	Let me introduce my panel of,
1:04.2	of drafters who will be joining me.
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