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fossilesque @mander.xyz

6mo ago

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DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."
- Obligatory "fuck Ted Faro"
  
  Average techbro tbh
  
  My god, what a cunt.
- Well they are still missing the self replicating part... But you know, give it some time.
  
  The machines will code that themselves.
- Apparently its the other way around. This tech is old: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/19/robots-research
  News to me. I loved the game andI really thought the plot was original.

I love how the quote cuts off right before "only goal".
- Oh I assumed it was "our problem"
  
  OK I also briefly thought "our problem" but I'm actually PRETTY CONCERNED about the words "only goal" when I really think about it? "Only", as in "Yeah, feeding on humanity is definitely ONE thing we're shooting for, but come on guys, there's lots of applications"

Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.
- At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life
  
  Which then caused another a climate crisis

Has no one played Horizon Zero Dawn?
- I guess we are in that timeline. Tbh, so many things make a lot of sense now.
  
  Someone put bullets in Ted faro. Literally screwed humanity as a whole...twice.
  
  I wish we were in the dino robots timeline

Breaking: Company creates Torment Nexus

Uhh I played this game. It's literally the plot of ::: spoiler Title Spoiled game :::
- Your spoiler tag isn't working.
  
  Yeah I can't get any of them to work. Do you know what Lemmy uses?
  
  This one works on my client, while normal ones don't
- Your spoiler tag doesn't seem to be working on beehaw at least BTW

I knew it was old news! I read this article 8 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3894132/Scavenger-robot-EATS-organic-matter-Soft-bodied-foraging-droid-used-clean-contaminated-water.html
- Even older than that
- Some more summarised info without journalism sensationalism issues
  
  Oh goddamnit of course he did.
  Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.

Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….
- You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate
  
  Or paperclips!

Onion? No? Great...
Next up "researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy"

If I'm gonna be eaten by a robot I'd much rather be dead first.
- These robots don’t do that part. They will build new robots to make corpses for them.

So it's not supposed to be used to eat the dead, good. OMG. It's supposed to eat the life ones!

- HELL IS FULL
  
  BLOOD IS FUEL

Apparently the robot is designed to be vegan.
But we all know a robot that feasts on the corpses of genocide victims isn't too far fetched.
- We now have a team. The flamethrower dog robot that cooks for the corpse eater.
  What the fuck kind of future is this?
- Honda's robots always seemed benevolent, let's hope they'll be in our side at least

Finally! A productive solution to mass graves!

Faro plague time

Sweet... early stages of the Faro plague

We're getting closer to a real life paperclip maximizer.
- We already have it, it's called profit maximizer, also known as capitalism.

Years ago I saw an article about a robot designed to hunt and kill insects as a healthier pest control mechanism in farming. That robot would put the insects into a hopper where they would be converted to fuel to run the robot.
I figured it wasn't going to be too long before they'd be eating us.

What have I told you? People are a renewable resource!
Galactic Civilizations, evil event choice

Screamers

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