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Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army
YouTube ^ | February 24, 2022 | Motec

Posted on 06/18/2022 9:29:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Steve_Seattle
Buying a robot to build burgers is simpler than trying to hire using the thicket of ridiculous, reality-denying "human resources" questions, memos, and bureaucratic nonsense from the gubmint.

Also, you don't have to worry about what the robot was doing with its hands a few minutes earlier, or worry about its love life.

21 posted on 06/18/2022 11:09:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SaveFerris
Heh... the strategic objective is always to get the other side to stop fighting. That is accomplished primarily in three ways; annihilate their armed forces, starve their forces off food, water, ammo, and equipment (in modern warfare, that means knocking out shipping, manufacturing, and transportation), such that they give up, and diplomacy. Any of those approaches can result in regime change for your adversary, which could be a good outcome or a middling/bad outcome.

Combat robots aren't alive, so they don't worry about dying, and that middle option only exists if they can be deprived of their power source; they'll otherwise just keep on coming, and if they run out of ammo, they'll run faster than a human, and arm themselves with whatever's around, including arms seized from combatants on either side.

22 posted on 06/18/2022 11:16:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just change the name to Cyberdyne and get it over with :)


23 posted on 06/18/2022 11:18:22 AM PDT by Raymann
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To: Brilliant

That calls to mind something we were told in some university class long ago — the three part psyche of Freud is id, ego, and superego, and can be summed up with, “do it”, “can it be done?” and “should it be done?”. Cyberslaves don’t need the third one, and can solve for the second one faster than the first one even demands.


24 posted on 06/18/2022 11:19:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s pretty good CGI work


25 posted on 06/18/2022 11:34:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SunkenCiv

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26 posted on 06/18/2022 12:07:39 PM PDT by sauropod (It's too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m a Blade Runner.

I “retire” robots.


27 posted on 06/18/2022 1:55:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SunkenCiv

Skynet.


28 posted on 06/18/2022 5:18:44 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! S Matter)
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To: Brilliant

The question is when do they add brains to their robots?

Public school? But only small ones.


29 posted on 06/18/2022 5:21:35 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Edition | Benefit or a Hazard
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Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Edition | Benefit or a Hazard | Warner Bros. Entertainment | October 16, 2012 | Warner Bros. Entertainment

30 posted on 06/19/2022 6:22:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Aaahhhhhhh…..

Rachel

Only God could make something that beautiful.


31 posted on 06/19/2022 11:57:39 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SunkenCiv

There goes the First Law of Robotics.


32 posted on 12/07/2022 4:16:57 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
When you're at war, it helps to have a manufacturing edge. The left is already at war with the Constitution and the people.

33 posted on 12/08/2022 7:32:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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