• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    30 minutes ago

    For the amusement of the rich .003%…

    Kinda feel like we need to start nipping this in the bud now.

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    4 hours ago

    We need to build our own robot army that’s open sourced and decentralized. Maybe it can all run on Linux lol

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      3 hours ago

      You think these things are running on Windows? Lol. I don’t think you could get a picture of them all standing at the same time if they were.

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        The GPLv2 is not restrictive enough in terms of allowing bad actors to circumvent it with DRM.

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      55 minutes ago

      The robots will guard the rich humans with water. So you will have to kill the robots first. You might have to kill humans second.

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      3 hours ago

      A highly agile, deadly accurate, inexhaustable enemy with more strength and less vulnerabilities?

      Bruh whaaaaaaat

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        I see you’ve never gotten sand in a brushless motor, or seen how most of those robots move outside of a choreographed scene, or thought about their battery capacity. :)

        All that aside, I think they were talking the morality of it.

        10/10 I would rather fight one of those than a human.
        Humans are quite durable, adaptive, and agile.
        I twisted my ankle once doing a task I’d never done before. I adjusted my footing and carried on. Our current humanoid robots cannot adjust to something like that. They’re just not designed in a way that makes them adaptable to changing physical layout.
        I might be squishy, but I only have two places that are vulnerable to sand and they come with covers that usually work pretty well, and one of them is mostly redundant.

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    4 hours ago

    Given that it’s Boston Dynamics, these are likely to be cop bots, making the reality even WORSE than OP’s dystopian scenario 😬

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    4 hours ago

    Joke’s on you – after you fight your way past the robots, you’ll find that they deliberately poisoned the water on the way out, just so you couldn’t have it.

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    3 hours ago

    I’ve yet to have anyone adequately explain how it’s not going to rain in the future…

    Cooling plants can use runoff water, salt water… As long as we keep from polluting the fresh water too much it’ll continue to be there.

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      2 hours ago

      … Do you think it rains enough for everyone to have drinking water now?

      Secondly, air pollution can render rain unhealthy to drink. Aggressive environmental regulation, the type that people are currently staunchly trying to remove, are what made it so everyone stopped talking about acid rain.

      Thirdly, climate change alters the growth of plants. The growth of plants mediates soil conditions, and soil conditions control water evaporation, drainage, and where rain falls. For an example, consider the dust bowl.

      Finally…

      As long as we keep from polluting the fresh water too much it’ll continue to be there.

      That’s exactly one of the major concerns!
      We’ve been polluting ground water sources for a while, and there’s also a phenomenon where over pumping a ground water source can shift the water table and expose it to ground pollution that it was previously not exposed to.