echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah once I actually spent some time looking into it I kind of agree with the court. The decision isn't great but really it was the only decision the court could come back with.

They were being asked to confirm what the term woman meant at the time the law was passed. Well it was passed by the conservatives so it's pretty apparent what it meant. Just use the least inclusive interpretation possible and pretty sure that would have been the accurate one. This is not the court's fault.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

I think we can do even better so it's interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

It's not that we think the human form is the optimum, it is simply that we don't want to have to modify human accessible areas for robots, partially because this increases the cost of automation and also partly because we need the environments to still be human accessible. In environments where you will only have robots, then the robots have freedom to be whatever design we want, but a general purpose robot needs to exist in a human-built environment, an environment with things like stairs, lips on curbsides, and boxes with handles designed for human hands. There are videos out there with the spot robot trying to do something simple like open a door with its weird giraffe neck arm thing, it's not graceful and it's not quick, because it is interacting with an object that was not designed with it's body shape. It is much easier to build a human-shaped robot than it is to redesign all doors to have an interface to allow a robot of any arbitrary shape to operate it.

Also aesthetics do matter, if humans are going to be interacting with these robots they need to look like something that's at least sort of friendly, if it looks like a multi limbed weird techno spider no one's going to want to interact with them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That is a weird take.

The robots are human shaped because the human shape is a good shape to be to interact with our environment. And environment that by definition has been designed to interact with human shapes.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

They are implementing AI at work next week. I'm super excited to see how wrong it goes.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah but when the AI overlords are writing up their kill list I'm not going to be at the top of it am I. Because I'm polite.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

The drones used in Ukraine are basically just commercial drones with grenades strapped to them. And a 1 km distance they're unlikely to be able to damage a target even if they detonated.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Warzone's always the best environment to test new battlefield systems.

Look at the difference in technology between the beginning of the first world war and the end. We started off with essentially standing in fields shooting each other over distances you could spit, and ended up with tanks. The second world war gave us nukes.

Will probably have AGI battle droids by the end of this war.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm so unimpressed with their release lineup as well. They've just done the same thing they always do, and made a minority improved Mario Cart and a lackluster Pokémon game. Or, and a tutorial, don't forget that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

I'm very sure you can even run blender on it

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Also there's no such thing as indie switch games. Which limits the market and means that all the really interesting games aren't even on the platform.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

That's also like the worst description of larping I've ever heard. I also like the "in real time" bit. Suggesting the possibility of turn-based social interactions.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was downstairs and felt sick, but I was in the kitchen with a laminate floor so I ran upstairs so I can throw up on your bed.

Oh and when I'm done I want to be fed.

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