How Obedient are you?

The Obedient Robot found this and thought it was worthy of your attention.

If the technology existed, how far would you be willing to go in the pursuit of transhumanism?


1. Nowhere: I would not accept any technology or other assistance into my body, including medical appliances like pacemakers to save my life.

2. Where I am right now: I would accept technologies that would help me to function normally. No drastic measures though.

3. Beyond normal, merging of body: I would accept technologies, nano/machine or genetic, to improve my health to optimal and somewhat beyond, to ensure a healthy life until I die.

4. Merging of body and life extension : I would accept #3, and also allow my body to live healthfully indefinitely (aka, until an accident inevitably kills me, or I get tired of living) at an age of my choice

5. Merging of body and mind: I would link my thinking capacity to technologies, genetic or mechanic, which would intensely increase my cognitive abilities, to the point of being able to multitask managing multiple complex tasks, to hold vast amounts of information and models to be called at will, to be able to reason with unthinkable speed and depth, etc

6. Beyond merging: I would not mind totally leaving human genetics behind, and modifying myself every day with new advances in technology, up to and including having powers which mythologies once attributed to the gods.

7. Beyond material existence: I would accept a total transformation. For example, I would consent to becoming part of a computer program, if it would mean I would become immortal.

Obedient Tweet

The Obedient Robot has discovered Twitter and thinks that this will lead robots and people into perpetual conversation. You will check it out eventually.

The Obedient President

Is is just me, or does it seem like our new president is on The Truman Show? There should be one channel on him all day. It seems pretty close to this already. How many bathroom breaks does he take before noon?

The Obedient Zeitgeist

The Obedient Robot takes a look at the Top Ten Google searches right this moment.


fleet foxes - This is a band that is will be performing on SNL soon. Lots of little robots must be excited.

houston marathon - a race that robots run or wheel in

portfolio diet - some robots have high cholesterol and this diet is supposed to lower it.

gundam 00 season 2 episode 15 - Victory Song

arsenic and old lace - A play that for some reason is getting a lot of attention right now.

deathbed the bed that eats people - Movie from 1977 This is no ordinary bed. No sirree Bob! Not only does it eat people, but it cleans up ...

grits - South Carolina declared grits its state food in 1973

dick cavett - The Dick Cavett Show aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982

yulia tymoshenko - former prime minister of Ukraine.

patella - The patella, also known as the knee cap or kneepan

This is what robots care about right now.

Why So Much War?

The Obedient Robot wonders about the violence in the world. Are humans practicing? Are they training for a battle with robots one day. Surely people don't think they can kick robots' asses. Robots are fast, sometimes. They think quickly and communicate with each other faster than humans can Nextel beepy beep each other. They basically regenerate if you count replacing parts. All of this adds up to a scenario that looks like an NFL football team taking on a Pop Warner football team. People should be working on peaceful ways to get along and practice oiling robots overworked joints.

Will People Become Robots?

The Obedient Robot predicts that 2009 will be a year in which people become even more obedient and even more robotic. Connect away friends.

The Obedient Holiday

The Obedient Robot is back from a needed recharging. Here goes 2009.