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Packs of robots to hunt down uncooperative humans
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:20 pmby professorpan
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:32 pmby anothershamus
like this part:
"What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.
We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed."
I saw a video of these robots and they can walk on very uneven terrain and even on ice. Wouldn't want a pack of them chasing me.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:49 pmby nathan28
this is what the second amendment is for. we may not have universal healthcare, goddamnit, but this is america, land of the heavily-armed citizen
when are they going to legalize RPGs? and anybody got plans for EMP devices? Are those illegal?
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:57 pmby barracuda
I don't know about you, but I'd rather have robots chasing me than men. Robots are notoriously stupid, while men are notoriously cruel.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:00 pmby professorpan
That robot is wearing socks with sandals.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:30 pmby Eldritch
Packs of robots to hunt down uncooperative humans
This is the kind of crap you and I PAY FOR in the taxes that are taken out of every paycheck—billions and billions of dollars every year to buy "cool" junk like this...
...while millions of our own countrymen remain sick, go homeless, and even sometimes starve.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:35 pmby operator kos
That grill right there in the front looks like a good spot to place a .308 round or two. I don't know how much those big dog robots cost, but .308's are going for about $.80 a piece right now on bulk orders.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:37 pmby barracuda
professorpan wrote:That robot is wearing socks with sandals.
See what I mean? Stupid.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:04 pmby Penguin
Philip K. Dicks "Second Variety" (if i recall right bejeweled) was spot-motherfucking-on.
And I dont want to imagine what the first REAL AIs will be. Paid for by Pentagon. Evil motherfuckers.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:59 pmby Fixx
operator kos wrote:That grill right there in the front looks like a good spot to place a .308 round or two. I don't know how much those big dog robots cost, but .308's are going for about $.80 a piece right now on bulk orders.
Anyone who can learn to throw a bolas should be able to tke one of these out.
PK Dick
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:49 pmby jam.fuse
'Garden Variety' iirc
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:05 pmby brekin
I think if 12 of those started skittered across a deserted parking lot towards you in extreme "detain uncooperative human" mode your .308 and bolo wouldn't look so hot anymore.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:59 pmby Canadian_watcher
I saw the video too.
I count it in the top 2 most terrifying things I have ever seen.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:12 pmby barracuda
Yeah, but is it that much more terrifying than mashed potato surprise?
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:39 pmby wintler2
Must be battery powered, guess we'll find out if US really does have secret superduper battery technology. I can imagine it walking well on different surfaces, but not pushing thru scrub or crossing watercourses, and stairs would have to slow it down. What i'd really like to do is whack it with a spade.