Imagine war crimes being committed by a little army or robots singing, "Los Locos kick your ass! Los Locos kick your face! Los Locos kick your balls into outer space!"
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iprobablybrokeit5 days ago
+10
He's alive!
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Lanster275 days ago
+43
Fun fact, the original script was to use humans for computational power, as the machines already achieved fusion.
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chefhj5 days ago
+8
Which is something they are currently working on since the human brain is about 1 million time more energy efficient than a computer
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iwantawinnebago5 days ago
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That's silly. Ask a human to factor 1522605027922533360535618378132637429718068114961380688657908494580122963258952897654000350692006139 and they will think about it for a lifetime, consuming about 320GJ of energy without providing a solution. A modern CPU does this in seconds for pennies.
Granted, brains can do some things much more efficiently. Like image recognition.
Then again, the film is from 1999 which was Age of Empires 2 ago.
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chefhj5 days ago
+10
the idea is to network neurons together and execute code on them not use an anatomical brain for computing
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redditscraperbot25 days ago
+12
I'm not trying to be a doomer or anything, but some of those iterations of the Matrix in the Matrix lore were pretty dope.
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Lanster275 days ago
+4
Sadly according to The Matrix’s timeline we’ll be the ones dying, aka the Second Renaissance.
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The_Grinning_Reaper5 days ago
+15
Skynet, my old friend..
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Apprehensive-Sir89775 days ago
+2
TIL that the HK tanks have a Cousin Eddie.
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cooltone5 days ago
+19
Imagine the escalation:
- the biggest factory wins
- first economic, then military
- Musk, Palantir and other tech bros decide "Why not rule the world when you have the factory."
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Atomlad3605 days ago
+21
It's always been the case - the reason the US was so powerful in WW2 was just the sheer number of factories they had to churn out ships, tanks, planes and guns
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Drongo175 days ago
+9
Should be remembered that it wasn't just for themselves either - USA was supplying ludicrous amounts of everything to pretty much all of the Allies.
Chuikov drove to Stalingrad in an American jeep!
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Stahlin_dus_Trie5 days ago
+29
If the biggest factory wins, China is going to have a field day and it's not even going to be close.
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Nukes-For-Nimbys5 days ago
+3
Both the Ukrainian and Russian systems heavily rely on Chinese components.
Oof they have the population to mobilise huge number of operators.
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xSaRgED5 days ago
+5
Trade Federation droid army incoming.
Just in time, considering we have the trade routes being tariffed and blockaded.
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Drongo175 days ago
+1
Our blockaaade is perfectly legal
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uberclont5 days ago
+1
China will win. It won't even be close.
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Full-Station56515 days ago
+8
The Terminator is coming! Exciting!
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CookieDragon6785 days ago
+8
Yes they do. Hydraulics or coolant.
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hmmmyousaidwhat5 days ago
+4
Can't Help Myself
https://youtu.be/ZS4Bpr2BgnE?si=3hHfZZ1j1CgOwzXc
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CookieDragon6785 days ago
+1
Thought of that too
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Pitiful-MobileGamer5 days ago
+3
I wonder how long it is until we start seeing theater or even squad level EMP devices.
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Intelligent-Parsley75 days ago
+1
You can shield for that.
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Pitiful-MobileGamer5 days ago
+2
Sure you can, but now that just UPs complexity and weight.
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boersc5 days ago
+3
One step closer to the Clone Wars...
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Demos225 days ago
+3
Now imagine a 13 years old kid, logging in a new game, selecting his robot character and playing a game of war, killing an entire enemy platoon, amazed by the graphics and realism of the game.
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Firstnaymlastnaym2 days ago
+1
Like Ender's Game
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Aramis4445 days ago
+2
They’re there to kick ass and chew bubblegum. But they’re incapable of chewing bubblegum.
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EmmaFrostBroken5 days ago
+4
Yeah I don't like where this is going
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Elegant-Day228015 days ago
+4
I’m… cautiously optimistic?
If the future of war is powers throwing machines rather than young men into the meat grinder each cycle then could that not be a good thing?
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TamaDarya5 days ago
+10
An incredibly obvious possibility is the commodification of war. No need to sell "boots on the ground" to the public - more war - more death on the receiving end of the robots. It was already a concern with the proliferation of aerial drones starting two decades ago.
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Electrical-Lab-95935 days ago
+9
yeah i can imagine they will be really expensive but politically c****.
If Trump had 100,000 terminator style robots, with air support, they would be on the ground in Iran right now doing all sorts of crazy war crimes.
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Electrical-Lab-95935 days ago
+6
also means that they can be used where morality might be a problem, like security for billionaires or leaders mowing down protestors its good in the UAF context to save lives, but overall general purpose robots that can also kill will be nightmare fuel.
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stealthlysprockets5 days ago
+6
That would make it easier to go to war. War is not limited to the front lines away from your home. A battle of attrition is about who has the most money to spend. Eventually the losing side will attack where the humans live to gain the upper hand since that’s who’s controlling the bots.
Basically robot wars are pointless and hitting civilians will be preferred.
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Apprehensive-Sir89775 days ago
+2
Each side will still be trying to break through to human-occupied land, to seize and/or demolish it. The distancing and abstraction of conflict probably won't be healthy for anyone, either.
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xSaRgED5 days ago
+2
Every generation has tried to come up with a way to end future war. So far none of it has worked.
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bbynowyoumaydialogue5 days ago
+1
Gald they dont leak any toxic or flammable stuffl...kinda the same thing
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jugglin_hunny5 days ago
+1
I mean we could build them to, if it makes anyone feel better.
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Ultra_Metal5 days ago
+1
Robots kick ass. Russia will lose the war because Russia still uses meat waves like Zhukov in WW2.
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DiscountCthulhu015 days ago
+1
They gotta name them t800
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WelderFamiliar35825 days ago
+1
An AI swarm of RC UNIMOGs with miniguns. A swarm is probably overkill, six would be enough for most applications.
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TX_Asylum5 days ago
+1
That looks like a light machine gun and 2 RPG's, maybe an APR as well... Yup, pretty terrifying. I wonder if it has an external speaker to taunt the Russians...
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sciencephilic-guy2 days ago
+1
20 years down the line, in a robot-human Cooperation Supreme Court:
"Mr. Zelensky, you sent robots into the battlefield because they don't... bleed?"
"..."
"Death sentence it is, then"
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OldGreyTroll5 days ago
> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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No-Appeal-73165 days ago
-6
Ukraine send MY robot to the battlefield. I payed for that
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Slimfictiv5 days ago
+3
Payed wiz ur moni?
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No-Appeal-73165 days ago
-2
Tax
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Slimfictiv5 days ago
+4
My tax moni payed to keep u in school and I didn't complain.
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No-Appeal-73165 days ago
-2
delusional want to appear funny, try harder
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Slimfictiv5 days ago
+5
You're delusional, as long as you're part of the EU your money goes where it should not where your personal feelings are. Don't like it, out.
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