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[–] [email protected] 230 points 4 months ago (3 children)

DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Obligatory "fuck Ted Faro"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Average techbro tbh

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... to see tech approach the point...

Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn't care.

Unless.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

My god, what a cunt.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well they are still missing the self replicating part... But you know, give it some time.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love how the quote cuts off right before "only goal".

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh I assumed it was "our problem"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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"

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Has no one played Horizon Zero Dawn?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I guess we are in that timeline. Tbh, so many things make a lot of sense now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Someone put bullets in Ted faro. Literally screwed humanity as a whole...twice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish we were in the dino robots timeline

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my conprehension

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

Breaking: Company creates Torment Nexus

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Uhh I played this game. It's literally the plot of ::: spoiler Title Spoiled game :::

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Your spoiler tag isn't working.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I can't get any of them to work. Do you know what Lemmy uses?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children) 
Preview Texthidden content

Preview Texthidden content

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The format is ::: spoiler and a title on the same line.

Content on new lines, then ::: to end it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This one works on my client, while normal ones don't

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Even older than that

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Or paperclips!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Onion? No? Great...

Next up "researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I'm gonna be eaten by a robot I'd much rather be dead first.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Finally! A productive solution to mass graves!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Sweet... early stages of the Faro plague

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Faro plague time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We're getting closer to a real life paperclip maximizer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

We already have it, it's called profit maximizer, also known as capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

What have I told you? People are a renewable resource!

  • Galactic Civilizations, evil event choice
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