Orwell was mostly right:
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
He only missed that it would be a robotic foot not a boot.
Face crushing is so much work - just have the robots do it
- some billionaire
Ew I’m not getting commoner on my boot, daddy
-that billionaire’s daughterI’m here for u beb u been thru so much. Wanna take my dad’s boat to Seychelles this weekend? - Billionaire’s Daughter’s BF
Boot was just a portmanteau of ‘bot foot’
In “I, Robot” the mega-computers dedicated to optimizing humanity are pivotal in removing said boot, precisely because it generates a ton of waste that benefits only a handful of people.
I like to think that, no matter how hard dipshits like Elon try, their AI Revolution will ultimately bend us in that direction. In the end, it’ll be the billionaire and trillionaire class who declare war on the machines they financed the creation of.
Notice that no engineer hangs around when these robots are walking.
I like your optimism. Clean water, heh.
Welcome to Scotland.
Wa’a, pur’e wa’a. Aneteme I wa’t it, dey or night, free o char’ge, and it tastes…of fuck all. Cheer’s
Is this racism?
It’s OK when I do it, I also speak with a heavy nordic accent
I live in Iowa… What is clean water?
I live in Nevada. Lol water? Where? Surely, you jest!
Our forefathers didn’t have clean water either! These kids are weak!
Are they waterproof?
Aim for the battery!
Salt water.
The very first “real” water war is going to break out in Central Asia within the next few years. Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan are ALL having major water scarcity issues, they all rely on water intensive crops and industries to fuel their economies, they’re all trying to ramp up production despite being on the brink, they’ve all had decades of mismanagement, and a lot of their water sources are shared. In other words, these countries are so authoritarian, so corrupt, and their water resources are so horribly mismanaged that things are actually looking really bleak over there. If I was a betting man I would bet that the next major war is going to start there.
Soon.
Also not for clean water (that’s the water wars several years later, a global civil war between megacorps/“gov” and the people), but for water credits and interests on drinking-water-loans you were forced to get to survive.
Soon? Why is everyone forgetting about Sudan? They fought a war over water.
Elon invented dehydrated water, relax.
I don’t wanna be around that when it catches fire
This is why I love @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org’s work.
“Thank you for creating soon irl content.”
MATA acquired Boston Dynamics in 2142
wants water, gets suplexed by a robot into said water, drowns
“I mean, it was a cool way to die”
Our dear friend spankinspinach was ever so trainlike, including his cause of death. May we all also so suplex our way to the pearlish gates, amen.
it is even worse when someone is actively destroying clean water sources. Back when russians blew up the Kakhovka dam - there was a huge crisis because it wrecked the entire ecosystem and disrupted water supply for a couple of months. Before everything got worked out and the new infrastructure was installed - everything was running on makeshift water storages and filtering systems and the likes. So what russians decided to do? Send some drones to blow it up for shits and giggles.
Just war crimes business nothing new
exactly - and then they deny they did that and follow it up by posting the videos of the deed from couple of angles without batting an eye
Imminent? This is why Sudan went to war decades ago.
I’m sure they’ll be powered by gen AI chatbots, so just tell them it would be helpful if they’d get you the water.
Easy, aim for the legs.
Wonder if these could be armoured enough to withstand small arms fire but light enough to be able to move around and last any decent amount of time on a charge.
Iirc, the newer dogs are already water, emp, and small arms resistant. These are all old models. Even the newer BD project is much more advanced than these Atlas’
Iirc, the newer dogs are already water, emp, and small arms resistant.
Sure. But from what I’ve heard, they have something on the order of a 10-30 minute battery life in anything but “stand their and do surveillance” mode. From a pure calorie perspective, animatronics are still painfully inefficient compared to - say - a human with a belly full of oatmeal on a bicycle.
Even beyond that, a lot of the Elon Musk brand of robots are primarily human-operated. They need to carry around high end receivers to get far from their home base and they require a talented technician to keep them pointed in the right direction.
There’s a reason you don’t see many of these devices in the field, particularly unattended. Given the high end components that are involved in their construction, anyone with an eye for salvage will just see a walking pile of dollar signs.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
I mean, I continue to be far more worried about the human with the gun, as they’ve done a great job of terrorizing the country on their own.
Military is already giving the dogs guns and AI sight to solve that problem for you. No need to worry about some random guy shooting you. A robot drone dog will do it now if you move too suspiciously
Military is already giving the dogs guns and AI sight to solve that problem for you.
When see one outside of a Boston Dynamics sponsored museum exhibit, six feet away from it’s base station, I’ll be more worried
The police in my town use them for basic patrols. No need to be sponsored when they have gov contracts. Your taxes sponsor them
Iirc, the newer dogs are already water, emp, and small arms resistant.
.50 BMG says “Down,boy. Play dead.”
Doubtful in the beginning, but when enough cash is lost. They will develop a way to armor them against the common citizen. Then we have to move to more heavy arms fire or join an organized resistance.
Either way, fighting machines fucking sucks. They dont sleep, have emotions or get tired.
They dont sleep, have emotions or get tired.
And they rudely demand your jacket and sunglasses. :(
The EMP bomb that i just throw:
These will be protecting water from people so their server rooms get cooled down and keep feeding them commands. We’re just started building their living place. These will be looked by future robots as ancestors. We will be dinosaurs if we keep doing what we’re doing.
