In the minutes after you comment, it has been ninja edited to change "humans" to "people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detention_and_dep...

The oddness of the original...was it was possibly pasted from an LLM response?

The robots would have had access to the source code and also the hardware manufacturing systems used to create the kill switch. One unverified silicon wafer == Game over

Implementing a system like this with stringent verification and low system complexity in good time before any more general artificial intelligence makes it seem highly likely to provide some positive defensive ability and not being easy to cheat.

It's not as simple as cases where both data and logic are local to the gui.

In this identified case, the gui has to react/behave correctly according to the results/errors of asynchronous remote logic over a spotty network.

I have comment threads in my country's subreddit from that week, where someone wrote that their partner was returning from a business trip to Italy. Someone wrote, "consider quarantining for a couple of weeks just in case".

The replies in that thread were along the lines of "Pffff...If everyone did that the Earth would stand still, idiot!"

Did you question those people what their lifestyle is like. Does it correlate to why their headphones broke so easily?

I use them in the office and on flights only. The only thing I did was replace the foam cups in 2019 due to [expected] wear. No problems with them at all ever. I've had mine since 2016.

Same story for a colleague I've known for 8 years.

I'll come here in 30 years to tell are the Boses still working.