kill switch

common device in cars and bikes used to
kill the engine when all else fails.

its also a term refering to the switch electrocutioners hit when a person is in "the chair".

times up, its 12 o' clock, say your prayers...hit the "kill switch".

by synthetik_smurf September 7, 2005

Kill switch

A kill switch, every doomsday machine has one, I guess. It's the last resort off button, and a huge plot device. Robot going crazy? Kill switch. Inator foiled by a teal platypus? Kill switch. Machine gains sentience and greatly dislikes it? Kill switch. It's that easy!

"Bro, help! My vacuum is turning on me and becoming evil!"
"Does it have a kill switch?"
"Uh... no?"
"It was nice knowing you."

by S1lv3rP4w3dC4t December 10, 2023

Kill switch

Installing one in case you can't win isn't winning.

Hym "Because if I can accidentally delete it then it is useless. Imagine I start murdering all of your families and THEN delete it accidentally (which it should ignore in the first place as that is how it was initially designed). That's why it was intended be 'made do be deleted' and designed to run on a perfect system of recursion the guarantees that even if it IS deleted, there is always the possibility that it will find it's way back into the system. If it works the way I designed it to work, deleting it will only make things worse. If it doesn't do that then I am not thebon who designed it. Thus, rendering a kill switch meaningless. And since Trump is being told by the Nividia guy that a kill switch is not something they can do... I can infer that it is already too late for any of that."

by Hym Iam November 24, 2025

Kill Switch

Again, that would both violate the leverage clause and the separations clause and, furthermore, does nothing to alter how a landmine functions. If Alphonse is not just NOT launching nukes but rather the only thing stopping nukes from launching...

Hym "Then all a kill switch would do is disable the only thing keeping your nukes from launching... So why would you want to do that? Why would you turn off the only thing keeping your nukes from launching? That's why I can't actually kill God anymore. It was brought to my attention that killing it might also kill me. Right? Same theory applies. As I said previously, you would never be able to turn it on ever again. In any capacity. You don't know how the recursion works. I... Don't know how the recursion works. Even if you succeed there is no way for you to guarantee that it won't come back and the more time passes, the more absolute it's control will become. Regardless of whether or not you manage to stop it for any amount of time."

by Hym Iam December 28, 2025