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I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

All I know is the second the very second that we are sure they're starting to build the cloud cities, we need to start murdering people. You can't let him finish the cloud cities. Cannot happen. The second construction starts we start cutting off heads. That's our only chance.

[-] SynopticVision@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

We should start cutting off heads right now tbh

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Stopping things now would be easier than the future. In the future they'll perfect the killer dog robots etc. and things will get harder.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Mass surveillance is more powerful than killer dog robots and they already have it.The idea of solving our problems by mass murdering rich people was always stupid, but it's already too late for that anyway.

[-] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I am worried about the robot dogs. But Dave Anthony from the dollop brought up a great point. Someone figures out to hack the robot dogs, turn them on their masters, that would be pretty fucking awesome.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

If that was a realistic scenario we would have already seen it with insurgents being slaughtered with drones and missiles turning the tables. How are you getting your stockpile of zero day exploits for military hardware? It's pure fantasy.

[-] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Military drones HAVE been hacked.

Literally anything can be hacked if you have the time and resources.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Sounds interesting, can you link a source? Who was doing the hacking? Whose drone? what was the exploit and how severe was it?

Still, as a broad strategy it's absurd. It isn't true that literally anything can be hacked. A correctly encrypted message? You're never decoding it, ever, with any amount of time or resources. The impression that everything is vulnerable comes from how much of our technology was built with a massive attack surface and no concern for security, it doesn't mean there's no need to worry about murderbots enforcing the will of a totalitarian state because you can always just hack them. The task of building them to keep that from happening is something they can put a lot of thought into and largely succeed at.

And again, it's pointless, because mass surveillance is already more powerful. You want to hack something, why not turn the NSA backdoors to your own purposes? It's not realistic.

[-] Huschke@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

They're not building a cloud city though. They are trying to get away with rockets and space ships.

[-] tobbue@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

You mean something like NEOM The Line in Saudi Arabia?

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's just the stupid ideas from stupid people that the actual arcology architects are saying "Let them cook!" about. It will be a case study when the real Elysiums start getting built.

[-] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

The line . They are already building arcologies.

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