They’re the Technocracy movement, started in the 1930s and stewing as a behind the scenes backer of conservative movements, such as the heritage foundation
Wikipedia link. If you read through that, you’ll find a lot of the seemingly random shit they say, like taking the Panama canal, Greenland, and Canada, it’s all related. This is the end goal
Ethnic groups are not a race, it’s a culture. You can leave it by leaving and not taking the culture with you, you can join one by showing up consistently
Yeah, well, searching things is impossible these days, and after clicking around for a while I found one that looked similar.
I did read an article about one, went to their page and it was listed as $8k, I looked up the specs and it looked like it could pick up about 20lbs and has a weak but reasonable grip, and it made an impact. Then I saw video of someone recording one running down a sidewalk - it was a cell phone recording, but the robot was controlled by someone filming a demo in public
I don’t really care if you take me at my word or not, the price factor to me means more because it means every robotics program in the world will be able to play with them.
But again, this isn’t the core of my argument at all, but by the time I was looking up links I was kinda getting bored with this. I like to argue over ideas, it’s a field I’m following closely with so much happening and we’re just too far apart to make this constructive.
I think it’s inevitable because capitalism, capitalism loves to treat people like replaceable cogs.
These would be literal replaceable cogs that never rest, don’t have rights, don’t need to account for safety concerns, and don’t have any of the other messy human bits
And even if we managed to suddenly outgrow capitalism, being able to have robots making robots in space would be a huge game changer
I see one for $43k on there, I don’t see any for $200k on that site
But that’s kinda irrelevant, as is how much Amazon’s robots cost. The point is how quickly robotics is advancing
There’s so many companies making these that I can’t find the one I saw weeks ago. They’re being tested in real world conditions. There’s a million groups playing with these things, trying to get them to do more and more tasks
And think of what full automation would look like… It would be a bunch of factory equipment like it is now. The automatons just need to carry and place stuff between stations, maybe slot things together and screw them in. That’s not that high a bar
I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable if society doesn’t collapse this decade
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Call for political violence, and you don’t have much room to complain when you get got
Political violence isn’t good, but it’s a symptom. One he called for explicitly
I feel bad for his kids… But daddy was a shitstain of a human being. I could say so much more of the dead, but I’ll leave it at that
Did you not convert from yuan or something lol?
I know I half assed those links, but your numbers are an order of magnitude off lmao
A rhino is covered in thick keratin plates. They could slide across asphault, their knees couldn’t handle the drop but human motorcycle riders can’t either
I’m not saying it’s easy, but it is OP
No… I’ve never seen those before. That’s not what I’m talking about at all, I also think the Tesla robots piloted by humans are probably going nowhere, for the record
Want to run failed startups past me some more? I gave you examples of humanoid robots being tested in real world conditions
Rhinos could turn a human to slime at that speed, they’re heavily armored and would probably not be harmed for the experience. If you could turn back into a bird instantly, you’d never even hit the ground… Something a rhino would probably survive if done correctly. Wind resistance wouldn’t do anything either
If you want instant transformations, I think there’s got to be severe tradeoffs. Even if you need room to avoid being squashed, that’s insanely powerful
Lmao… That’s a wild take. Boston dynamics has been steadily improving this whole time, they were the first to really crack bipedal locamotion. Not just walking, running and flipping. Carrying loads. Kipping back up to their feet
You can, right now, for $8k buy a humanoid robot that can run, and be controlled to do whatever else. That’s insane
And you can get shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially. These exist and are for sale
Amazon is currently field testing humanoid robots that deliver packages from the truck to the door.
Your knowledge is very dated, friend.
Large mass changes literally break physics - if you can switch from a diving bird to an elephant and back, you wouldn’t just be throwing cars, you’d be able to send trucks flying
Limiting your maximim mass to human scale, you could still drop kick someone hard enough to splat them, which is pretty strong. Turn into a cat instead, and you could open them up like cheese as you pass
You also have an insane amount of utility - an eagles eyes can see for miles, a dog (or many animals really) can smell so well it’s like a new sense, cats operate with a reaction time beyond human scale… This is a really strong and versatile ability
If the scaling has powers at a scale properly prepared and equipped humans could operate at, I think this is the limit. There’s no answer to a rhino flying at you at 100mph… That basically can’t be dodged or stopped
No, I’m talking about automonous humanoid robots specifically. The rollers and shelf bots have been around for years
NVidia also just released a big suite of tools to train AI for robotics, it’s basically a huge physics sandbox where you can train and test models at scale before real world testing
Boston dynamics and others are currently writing/lobbying regulations for bipedal robots so that they can meet safety requirements - current safety standards require an emergency shutoff switch, but bipedal robots fall over if they don’t balance, which isn’t particularly safe
This is happening, and quickly. None of them have the dexterity to machine parts, but the range of tasks they can do is rapidly expanding
I don’t know what to tell you, other than it’s already happening. Once the first robot builds a second, it’s over. You can buy one that can physically do light tasks for $8k, this summer Amazon started using robots for deliveries and has been using them for packaging for longer
It’s not science fiction, it’s now an engineering problem, one that is progressing quickly
And if the machines are the ones building new parts, that, like many other things, goes out the window. They can even recycle and refurbish parts
I mean, being able to instantly turn into a bird instantly is still pretty crazy, it’s less OP than teleporting for escape, but still really powerful
Since you don’t want the time based transformation or to give up flying, maybe a skill aspect? Like, you get the body of the animal, but not the instincts. You’d have to learn how to move each new body, you’d have to teach yourself to fly with a breakable body and learn to run on all fours, but you could do it with
But you also are capped between 25-100% your normal mass… That will let you get some of the larger flying birds, as well as a bunch of larger cats, but nothing so big you can tip over cars or anything
Hey, yeah…I forgot they never actually fixed the Tik Tok situation over here
What’s a pure technocrat? Technocracy wants to control all aspects of life, they want the tech oligarchs in charge, they want to be generally isolationist and carve up the world into blocs
That’s how these people act. That’s where they focus, that’s what they hint and feel out responses for. This is the roadmap they’re using
Spirituality? Religion? Patriotism? These things are a veneer to fascists. They don’t believe in any of that, hell they generally don’t even believe in Technocracy… This is a means to an end
They’re Fascists. They don’t believe in anything but power and using it against their enemies