DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."
Obligatory "fuck Ted Faro"
Average techbro tbh
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.
... to see tech approach the point...
Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.
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.
We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn't care.
Unless.
My god, what a cunt.
Well they are still missing the self replicating part... But you know, give it some time.
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.
I love how the quote cuts off right before "only goal".
Oh I assumed it was "our problem"
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"
Excited for IRL Horizon Zero Dawn.
At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life
Has no one played Horizon Zero Dawn?
I guess we are in that timeline. Tbh, so many things make a lot of sense now.
Someone put bullets in Ted faro. Literally screwed humanity as a whole...twice.
Breaking: Company creates Torment Nexus
Uhh I played this game. It's literally the plot of ::: spoiler Title Spoiled game :::
Your spoiler tag isn't working.
Yeah I can't get any of them to work. Do you know what Lemmy uses?
The format is ::: spoiler and a title on the same line.
Content on new lines, then ::: to end it.
I've tried every variation and it's not working. This is definitely the most complicated spoiler tag system I've seen.
This one works on my client, while normal ones don't
I knew it was old news! I read this article 8 years ago
Even older than that
Now just make them sentient and self replicating and….
You either get Horizon Zero Down or replicators from Star Gate
Or paperclips!
Onion? No? Great...
Next up "researchers wondered what would happen if they put AI to a machine that can consume humans for energy"
So it's not supposed to be used to eat the dead, good. OMG. It's supposed to eat the life ones!
Finally! A productive solution to mass graves!
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.
Sweet... early stages of the Faro plague
Faro plague time
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.
We're getting closer to a real life paperclip maximizer.
We already have it, it's called profit maximizer, also known as capitalism.
What have I told you? People are a renewable resource!
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