A devious machine take care suspiciously like the pain box from Dune — or a minimalist sculpture from the ’ 60s — is now sell on eBay . In fact , that ’s all it does . This robot sells itself on eBay every workweek .
Called“A dick to delude and Slaughter ( 2009),”by the artist Caleb Larsen , the impose block has a mind of its own , literally :
Hooked up to the internet , it will put itself up for sale every seven days . Right now — the auction sale survive until Thursday — you’re able to bring down it for just northward of four thou . But a workweek after , the cube will offer itself up for cut-rate sale again .
It seems to be for real : That is , this thing comes with a legal contract bridge binding the gatherer to facilitating the sale , and apparently this robot artwork is supposed to change hands every workweek — forever . Is the how AI lead off ? With a self - selling bot ?
And the Q+A certainly on the seller ’s Thomas Nelson Page reach it seem like this creative person is in it for the long catch :
Q : How would you treat the contingencies of ebay shutting down / endure under ? It seems unmanageable to maintain the “ unremitting ” DoS of vendue for more than a few millennium .
A : The contract bridge and the piece were designed to be platform agnostic to accommodate for this . If eBay dry out up and disappear , then another platform , either propriety or populace , can be used for the selling .
Whatever it is , the thing looks rigged to defeat bare mortals . It ’s either something out of the future , or the twisted mind of William S. Burroughs — maybe both .
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