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Post by lifty »

djrogers wrote: post #126
lifty wrote: post #97

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We could mandate that all AI robots should load an abide by a digital constitution that has been cryptographically signed by a majority of the population.

And how do you enforce your mandate? Without the threat of physical violence, any mandate devolves into a suggestion - or worse, handcuffs on the just.

I’m not advocating for getting rid of the institutions that apply physical violence on behalf of the population. I’m advocating for more fairly distributing the strings of power. You still have to force the manufacturers to implement the check. But the fewer places that you need to enforce physical violence on, the better.

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Post by lifty »

sangnoir wrote: post #129
lifty wrote: post #97

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We could mandate that all AI robots should load an abide by a digital constitution that has been cryptographically signed by a majority of the population.

Who will enforce this mandate? Or will this be an honor system?

It will be a review system, like on Amazon. Just kidding. I replied to the same question in a sibling comment.

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Post by exhilaration »

Cipater wrote: post #142
thefreeman wrote: post #116

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what is the first book in this series?

Prador Moon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1060548.Prador_Moon

Thank you, Audible link for the interested: https://www.audible.com/pd/Prador-Moon-Audiobook/B00F3HVM84

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Post by shadowgovt »

BashiBazouk wrote: post #124
jvanderbot wrote: post #35

This is awesome, but until someone solves the real-time sensing and modelling problem, it'll never fly in the real world. The use case is still warehouses. Here's my logic / assumptions: How does the robot "know" (have sufficient model information to predict the response) that the board will hold it when it does a vault? It doesn't -- it is told to vault by placing one limb on top. As we've seen with self-driving car…

Whenever I see the four legged dog robot, I wonder how far we are from the chevaline in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.

It's easy to forget sometimes, in the era of cars, how much we gave up when most people in industrialized society stopped riding horses.

It's pretty hard to get a horse to careen off a cliff or straight into a tree. The largest risk for riding a horse drunk is that it'll inadvertently scrape you off on a low-hanging branch.

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Post by adrian_b »

jvanderbot wrote: post #98
sandworm101 wrote: post #92

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Well, 70% is oceans. So of the land 20% would be the majority of terrain. Also, hovercraft probably push that number even higher.

Well, 10 minutes of googling didn't return the information I needed, so we'll go with "Most of the non-water surface of earth is accessible to tracked vehicles"

In the high mountains there are many places that are not accessible to tracked vehicles.

Moreover, of the places that are accessible to tracked vehicles, many are accessible only to small tracked vehicles, smaller than a typical car, and not at all to tank-sized vehicles.

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Post by stakkur »

”If robots can eventually respond to their environments with the same level of dexterity as the average adult human, the range of potential applications will be practically limitless. ‘Humanoids are interesting from a couple perspectives,’ Kuindersma says. “First, they capture our vision of a go-anywhere, do-anything robot of the future. They may not be the best design for any particular task, but if you wanted to build one platform that could perform a wide variety of physical tasks, we already know that a human form factor is capable of doing that.”

No, they’re not “humanoids”, and it’s chilling to hear them call it that.

But more simply than that: this will be used for war and human surveillance and response. It is already underway.

TL;DR: Why?

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Post by bserge »

ansible wrote: post #139
bserge wrote: post #88

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Bullets, lasers, paint, bricks, rope, pipes, anything that works on a human and more. Doesn't seem particularly hard if they're in range. Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse.

> Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse. Humans snipers regularly make kills at that distance or farther, so that's not really a new threat. I'd be more worried about the development of supersonic AGMs that are smaller and cheaper. Right now, it doesn't make much economic sense to fire a $10K USD missile to kill random people (though the USA does it anyway), but if it only costs $1K... now y…

Yeah but I reckon these kind of robots won't be deployed strictly against human snipers. The average enemy won't have the skill nor equipment to retaliate against long range, rapid fire sniping.

A robot, maybe with drone support, could be really accurate at launching grenades or unguided mortar rounds. Or hell, attach it to an artillery gun. Much cheaper than missiles.

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Post by mastax »

xornox wrote: post #106
nostrademons wrote: post #46

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Boston Dynamics was initially DARPA funded and intended for military uses, so you're not wrong. The weird thing is that the more I study history, the more I think that the real dystopia started a century (and perhaps a couple millenia) before I was born, and we're just so adapted to it that we think it's normal. Take the "[Ro]bot" out of your headlines and those would be headlines from today, and if you ignore that t…

Dystopia started when we invented farming 10 000 years ago.

I, too, hate not dying of intestinal parasites at 24.
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