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2018/05/02 10:13:02
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Kilkrazy wrote: He could have spent it on cleaning up plastic in the oceans, or research into new antibiotics, or all kinds of stuff that would help the planet.
This is true, although space exploration is very important too. However, I don't like that it is Musk and Bezos doing the exploring. I don't trust what they will do with the power and resources they can gain from it.
In all likelihood, Musk and Bezos will be dead before we get anything like space mining occurs. We're a little far out for that to happen just yet.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/05/07 18:48:43
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Holographic 3D displays. neato
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
... we're one lightning strike or electrical surge from that not ending well.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/05/07 21:24:27
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Retroviruses in the candy to induce orange pigmentation, green hair and reduce stature in fetuses.
Years later, start a foundation to care for these unfortunate 'Wonky' babies.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2018/05/08 02:39:03
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
"Google creating a voice assistant that can dupe human callers with “ums” and “ahhs” and other tics of human speech is utterly unethical. But Google’s attitude is we can so we will. Let’s all enjoy the unintended consequences here:"
great idea to help teach them to lie to us
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/05/10 22:05:46
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/05/11 20:12:15
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Indeed. It is a bad time to be in the earth sciences in the US government.
Wonder if he'll shut down the Coast Guards ocean temperature monitoring next.
If you don't study it, it's not happening! [insert tap forehead guy.jpeg]
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
2018/05/21 15:31:55
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Any updates on this experiment so far? I'm really curious to know if it succeeded, although judging by the lack of 'groundbreaking news' I would say not yet?
2018/07/22 12:16:21
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Boston Dynamics Says It Can Build 1,000 Robot Dogs a Year By Mid-2019
Boston Dynamics is preparing to build its terrifying army of robot dogs, according to a Saturday report in Inverse that the company has set a target date of July 2019 as the time it will be ready to manufacture 1,000 of its compact SpotMini models annually.
SpotMini is the smallest variant of Boston Dynamics’ many different models of robo-dogs yet at approximately two feet, nine inches tall. It weighs “around 66 pounds” and has an hour and a half battery life, per TechCrunch, and the company has recently demonstrated all kinds of functionalities like opening doors for other robots and increasingly complicated navigational skills. While the company already announced plans to launch commercially in 2019 with a limited run of robots already in pre-production, Inverse’s report has some new details, such as that the SpotMini is intended to eventually become a multi-use platform of sorts:
The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications. That’s the plan, anyway.
.... Speaking last month at the CeBIT computer expo Hannover, Germany, [founder Marc Raibert] said Boston Dynamics is already testing SpotMini with potential clients in four categories: construction, delivery, security, and home assistance.
... “We’ve built ten by hand, we’re building 100 with manufacturers at the end of this year, and at the end of 2019, we’re going to begin production at the rate of about 1,000 a year,” he said of SpotMini, a prototype of which sat the stage at his feet.
The attachment point where the SpotMini’s robotic arm stems from its body could in the future hold a variety of attachments “to be designed and produced by third parties,” per Fortune, making it more versatile. For example, instead of a claw the arm could terminate in a power tool or a camera.
However, as Inverse noted, the company has endured criticism as a “tech industry curio”—particularly around the time Google put it on the open market in 2016 before its eventual sale to Softbank Robotics in 2017. That’s included claims its numerous viral videos show teleoperation rather than machine learning, that the technology to make the robots useful simply isn’t available yet, or that the odds are long of making them commercially cost-effective. (In 2015, the US military declined to buy a prior model called the BigDog designed to carry ammunition or evacuate wounded troops, saying it was noisy enough to give away a unit’s location.) SpotMini is likely to run in the tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum, limiting their availability.
One possible use for the robots is home delivery, where the robots would at least in theory face fewer regulatory hurdles than plans by Amazon and UPS to deliver packages by unmanned aerial vehicle. But that approach creates its own problems, including that it would have to be cheaper than overworked humans, be capable of navigating obstacles that aren’t static like pedestrians, dogs, and traffic intersections, and perhaps prepared for the possibility somebody could try to wrestle the package away from the robot. Construction sites would perhaps be even harder to deploy a SpotMini in safely for human or bot, given that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ranks construction as one of the most dangerous industries.
Security seems like one of the more plausible uses for the SpotMini, given that all it really needs to do is walk around, record things, and maybe detect and report anything weird going on. At a Softbank World presentation in Tokyo in 2017, Raibert showed off a model equipped with a camera.
Inverse also theorized that the SpotMini or its possible successors could find use in elder care, which tends to be so expensive that robots could be cost-effective:
In Japan, the elderly are preparing for robots to care for them, and face a predicted “shortfall of 370,000 caregivers by 2025,” reports The Guardian.
Because Spot Mini is just under three feet tall, it’s objectively less-scary and might even appear cute if it were to take care of your aging grandmother — fetching drinks and medicine and opening doors for her.
However, the Japanese robots in question tend to be simpler assistive devices like machines that help lift the elderly out of bed or smart mobility aids that automatically detect and compensate for inclines. And while SpotMini might look cute fetching food or medicines, it had better not pick the wrong ones, and be capable of doing so even if a random thing falls over in front of a door.
In any case, Boston Dynamics’ robot army may start rolling off production lines soon, whether or not it has anything more useful to do than serve as status symbols for the ultra-wealthy, navigate hallways, or maybe do backflips like its ATLAS cousin.
"The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications."
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/07/24 02:58:06
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
"The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications."
Is it wrong to want to put a robot dog brain in an AMX 13/90 tank? Other than chasing squirrels I'm not seeing any real issues.
Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
2018/07/24 11:05:07
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
"The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications."
Is it wrong to want to put a robot dog brain in an AMX 13/90 tank? Other than chasing squirrels I'm not seeing any real issues.
Wait until it tries to hump your car...
insaniak wrote: Sometimes, Exterminatus is the only option.
And sometimes, it's just a case of too much scotch combined with too many buttons...
0012/06/09 18:20:53
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Genetically mutated rats could be released in Britain to solve rodent problem
Bound to be a fine idea that'll work perfectly.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/08/04 12:47:40
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
"The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications."
I'd very much prefer US Robots and Mechanical Men over that, but of course they're not going to give them the 3 fundamental laws. That would be too smart.
2018/08/04 13:18:31
Subject: Re:Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
"The overarching goal for the 26-year-old company is to become the what Android operating system is for phones: a versatile foundation for limitless applications."
Is it wrong to want to put a robot dog brain in an AMX 13/90 tank? Other than chasing squirrels I'm not seeing any real issues.
Steelmage99 wrote: The 3 fundamental laws of Asimov doesn't work.
Not in real life and not in his stories.
From what I saw of that video before shutting it off, it's all about the computer brain not being able to pin down the abstract barriers of the limits of the laws, especially with a limited vocabulary to base it off of. Reread the stories, the brains themselves took multiple people to produce, and it was a long process. Not to mention that his stories specifically address how those boundaries are open for interpretation, and many of them deal SPECIFICALLY with the items the person in the video questions.
Gatebox's Boku no Yome (“My Wife”) has been released in mass production for 150,000 yen (US$1,352). The holographic character stands about 8 inches tall and talks to her husband from behind a cylindrical plastic barrier. In addition to the upfront cost for Boku no Yome, husbands must pay a subscription fee of 1,500 yen (US$13.52) per month to keep their wife from getting outdated.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2018/09/01 11:55:11
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
I think it was the 'Robot Wife who also controls your house and then you meet a real girl, and robot wife murders you both in a fit of rage by either burning the house down/freezing you to death in your sleep/tossing toaster into bathtub, etc...
Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
2018/09/01 13:57:39
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Humanity needs to make voluntary exodus from the gene pool easier, like this. Survival of those capable of creating human relationships is pure Dar-win for the species.
2018/09/01 14:29:33
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
I just finished a SciFi series called "3 body problem", and holy crap, some of this science fiction is pretty scary . Hopefully in reality, all the aliens out there aren't out to get us
2018/09/01 14:36:18
Subject: Mankind continues to learn nothing from science fiction
Humanity needs to make voluntary exodus from the gene pool easier, like this. Survival of those capable of creating human relationships is pure Dar-win for the species.
This post went to a far less creepy place than I expected from the beginning. Exalt!
Krieger finally made it to market.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.