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Even now, it doesn't need to be war. Calmer minds will prevail. The cycle will be broken. The strife is engineered. |
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So those of us of sound mind and skills just start inserting wrenches into the works without any centralized command. |
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We just fuck with anything we can fuck with as it pertains to our own governance. |
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If they aren't working for us... then... what are they for? |
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And the rice and rose petals! |
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Since you ask, their primary task is to occupy a space which would otherwise be filled by something much worse. Nature is said to abhor a vacuum, but power abhors one even more, and if you help to create a power vacuum through random acts of sabotage, beware of what comes next. |
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Given that so much of labor consists of "pick up thing and move it to another physical location" There's no end of work available for drones, once AI gets good enough. To start (and much of this is already being done), they can pick fruit, help fishing fleets sort out the nets, record Olympic divers and sky divers, collect real time local traffic information, grab you that one thing you forgot in the supermarket, run down to the chemist for your brain meds, pick up new batteries at the store, hold a light up to warn off traffic when you're broken down on the motorway, hold tools for robotic or human linemen, clip branches, on and on and on. |
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Are you thinking of talons and pounces, [Voice], or can you picture a better general purpose swoop- down- and-pick- things- up interface? |
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Tentacles. Always tentacles. |
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Hence the squiffon; a mythical beast with the wings of an eagle and the tentacles of a squid. |
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//the wings of an eagle and the tentacles of a squid.// |
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But squids don't have... oh... Never mind. |
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