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[–] [email protected] 228 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)
[–] [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] 91 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] 67 points 4 months ago

Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.

[–] [email protected] 52 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
[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

Breaking: Company creates Torment Nexus

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Even older than that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh goddamnit of course he did.

Joe Rogan elicited some conspiracy theories and media rumors after he claimed on his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience" that the robot would (or at least could) ingest human remains to keep powering itself.

[–] [email protected] 32 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 (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've tried every variation and it's not working. This is definitely the most complicated spoiler tag system I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They look like thisIt's an expandable full-width deal. The spoiler start tag has to be on its own line, and the same goes for the ending three commas.

MelodiousFunk has replied with a cleartext example.

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

Interesting. I'm using boost and your comment isn't spoiler tagged for me. That's also how mine is currently formatted. Shame since this app has a spoiler tag button that appears to match the format.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I use Thunder, full support here.

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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] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate

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

Or paperclips!

[–] [email protected] 23 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.

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

These robots don’t do that part. They will build new robots to make corpses for them.

[–] [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

Finally! A productive solution to mass graves!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Sweet... early stages of the Faro plague

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

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

  • Galactic Civilizations, evil event choice
[–] [email protected] 4 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.

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