Under authoritarian communist rule, you won’t have the freedom to become a billionaire and create a lethal VR headset because you were inspired by a mid anime
the fact that the ceo of a us offense contractor is a soa fan is horrifying
Just imagining him watching SOA Alicization and rooting for the Americans in their quest to acquire the literal human souls trapped in a synthetic form to pilot weaponized drones.
we didnt have souls until the CEOs invented them just so they could harvest them
The plot of Alicization is literally that some Japanese navy R&D contractors discovered the literal physical form of the human soul and how to put it into a machine and immediately launched a program to develop blank copies of the researchers' souls into fully sapient synthetic humans with free will, to serve as drone pilots. They had to do this because simple copies of their literal souls would immediately explode on realizing they were copies, and for no clear reason "so yes it is a fully functioning human, but ontologically completely obedient" was undesirable for an enslaved military AI that they want to mass produce and use as disposable cannon fodder. Like ethically the entire point was that this was bad, and even the non-"alicized" synthetic humans were still people whose lives mattered, even the designated villain ones who it took pains to show were normal people put into like ork bodies and who still actively rebelled against being made to play the part of the villain in their horrible fantasy world simulation, but the premise was still very silly.
It's... still not good, but it's also not as bad as the earlier seasons. Still extremely gross in places, though.
Damn did they plagiarize Evangelion lol
“I have plans for an anti-tamper mechanism that, like the NerveGear, will make it impossible to remove or destroy the headset,”
100% he's planning to press-gang drone pilots using these things
“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you,” Luckey said.
Billionaires are the best and brightest and deserve what they have
that's a pretty good tongue in cheek line for his styrofoam photo-op product
what concerns me more is that he's a defense contractor. the fuck is the pentagon doing with TV screen buckets?
He tied them to a narrow-band photo sensor that detects the headset views a specific red screen that flashes at a specific frequency. “When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user,” Luckey said.
Janky bulkshit kills you when someone uses a TV remote nearby.
"worlds number two economy" ... grasping onto the last remaining vestiges of absolute cope they have left
I love the argument against PPP. "They're only the largest if we're talking about buying products with money!"
These are also the people that will jump on any chance to rail against China for artificially devaluing their currency to cheat and make their exports unfairly out-compete domestic production in the West. Which if it's true is the only reason their nominal GDP is as small as it is.
The comments under this article on .ml are comical.
Calling IT Support to hook up the communism button
The Singularity Will Be Communist
Off to write a handwringing Op Ed about how China is about to fall behind in vital shitcoin technologies.
Gonna be so funny if the next five year plan includes a GPU that can run Cyberpunk at 4k 60 frames.
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