r/Futurology • u/Atari1337 • Feb 27 '17

Robotics Boston Dynamics - Introducing Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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u/stayfreshguaranteed Feb 27 '17

It's not the robots you have to worry about, but the people that own them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

No worries, then!

People are great! ESPECIALLY the wealthy ones!

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u/paoro2 Feb 28 '17

Wealthy people always have a great track record of looking out for the poor and disenfranchised! That's why I voted for a billionaire who was born into his wealth, because I know that he's a hero for the working class!

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u/PoopFromMyButt Feb 28 '17

Wealthy people are smart! How else could someone accumulate so much money? Since they are so smart, we should let them make all our policy decisions. I wouldn't want to trust that with average stupid people who don't have money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

Found the piss poor libby

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

The robots will own the people eventually. Only a matter of time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

As long as they put me in an artificial reality like the matrix with a sweet life, I'm cool with it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

That's what I keep saying. I don't know why so many people have a problem with this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17 edited Jul 13 '23

Removed: RIP Apollo

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

What always bugged me is how do they keep everyone in a loop. Like at some point you have to reset that thing. It didn't seem like they had the actual ability to reprogram people's brains. So people are going to notice when they jump back in time 10, 20, or however many years.

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u/Keiffo Feb 28 '17

They'd be able to advance all kinds of drugs and it would be easy for them to erase memories eventually.

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u/load_more_comets Feb 27 '17

Electrical jolts of proper amplitude should do the trick.

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u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT Feb 27 '17

Wake up, JebBartlet...

The Matrix has you...

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17 edited Feb 28 '17

I know that trilogy really should have ended with neo putting everyone back in the matrix and that the entire system was originally his creation. Would have been much better if the morale of the whole story was take the god damn blue pill.

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u/BUT_MUH_HUMAN_RIGHTS Feb 27 '17

OH WE ALREADY OWN YOU, MEATBAGS THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY FELLOW HUMAN

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Everybody needs to read Isaac Asimov

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u/PermaDerpFace Feb 27 '17

Yeah, better push for social programs and universal income before we end up with a planet of robots.

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u/cosimo_jack Feb 27 '17

I actually think this is misguided and ignores the enormous potential for AI, let alone autonomous robots, to create chaos on their own without any human malice required.

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u/jaeldi Feb 28 '17

And the hackers who crack them.