Because you can go through your whole life with zero negative social corrections. It’s a low trust, collapse of society thing

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

You ask on a link aggregator…

No, no there’s not. The Internet is dying, the best you’re going to get is human made submissions

You could put yourself on some mailing lists, otherwise a well curated set of communities is about as good as it gets

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

No, parts make the whole. If you find a pre built that’s better then the parts, there’s a reason. Maybe an economic one, which will probably be a short window if true

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

Yeah ok

Amazon delivery robots

$8k robot

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