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You have 20 seconds to comply.
Jamerson McGradner

The ED-209 boardroom scene from the 1987 film RoboCop, where the enforcement droid malfunctions after giving a man 20 seconds to comply.
HN uses it purely as a joke reference in threads about autonomous weapons, robots and malfunctioning automation.
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