teehee posting doctor quantum usually results in some neckbearded meathead espousing a metaphysical philosophy due to a poor understanding of superstring theory and then i make fun of them
I wonder how long it will take before we have robots that have valid military combat applications.
I am not talking about flying drones or whatever. I want to see like 4 ft tall robot death machines thank you. That might help with the overpopulation thing. I mean we are all going on about using robots and stuff for going into space and fixing our problems here at home.
Where are all my robots taking care of buisness here on earth?
Oh and, love bots. Come on now, we may be able to genetically engineer super-bimbos that are physically perfect in every way, but you'd still have to listen to them drone about the latest fashion or Holo-show.
the problem with military combat robots is basically singular
it's a software issue
specifically, a target recognition and situation assessment issue
we've got the hardware to build bad-ass death machines. this technology exists
what we don't have is 100% reliable software that can safely and quickly distinguish enemy from friendly from non-hostile from lamp-post and be able to figure out and adapt to a situation quickly.
shit, we can't even get human soldiers to do that shit with 100% reliability.
basically the only practical use for a ground combat robot at this point is the sort of thing you'd just use a bomb for anyway: when you want to kill a fuckton of things in an area and ain't the pickiest bout how it gets done or who it gets done to
desire to see people waste their lives meaninglessly
Fuck you and fuck the implications you're making with this statement. I don't want people to waste their lives meaninglessly. I want people to waste their lives however the hell they want to. You can see a person's desire to live on Mars as meaningless to yourself. Hell, I can see it as being meaningless to myself. If that's what they want to do though, I want to believe they can do it.
the problem with military combat robots is basically singular
it's a software issue
specifically, a target recognition and situation assessment issue
we've got the hardware to build bad-ass death machines. this technology exists
what we don't have is 100% reliable software that can safely and quickly distinguish enemy from friendly from non-hostile from lamp-post and be able to figure out and adapt to a situation quickly.
shit, we can't even get human soldiers to do that shit with 100% reliability.
basically the only practical use for a ground combat robot at this point is the sort of thing you'd just use a bomb for anyway: when you want to kill a fuckton of things in an area and ain't the pickiest bout how it gets done or who it gets done to
Agreed, of course.
It is a wonderful thought though. I will be a happy man when there is something that can take the place of that first man through the breech, that doesn't mind getting shot a few times...
desire to see people waste their lives meaninglessly
Fuck you and fuck the implications you're making with this statement. I don't want people to waste their lives meaninglessly. I want people to waste their lives however the hell they want to. You can see a person's desire to live on Mars as meaningless to yourself. Hell, I can see it as being meaningless to myself. If that's what they want to do though, I want to believe they can do it.
I don't.
I don't want to believe that fat broad ahead of me in the check-out aisle is really gonna buy six bags of doritos and start wolfing them down as she's paying for them.
I don't want to believe she's so self-absorbed and stupid to not realize her own self-destructive behavior
but there she goes, doing it anyway.
I want to believe people are good.
They just don't want to be a lot of the time.
I don't let that bring me down, I remain optimistic.
and so, which is the more human and noble endeavor?
Wasting time on what we want to do, or being ruthlessly efficient while denying our own hopes and dreams?
I always tend to blame our evolutionary biology when it comes to the staggering stupidity of the common man, and I live in a northern ontario hick town so I see alot of stupid people.
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The Black HunterThe key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
Big Dog is cool, but a real donkey would be better
I always tend to blame our evolutionary biology when it comes to the staggering stupidity of the common man, and I live in a northern ontario hick town so I see alot of stupid people.
you overthink biology, i think.
the one consistent thing you've been saying all along is "it's just our nature, man! it's how we're wired! all we can do is change the code!"
i don't believe that.
I don't believe you give society and anthropological development enough credit for the complexities and wonder of the human experience.
I don't really see it as "growing up" persay, but I do see the lines of evolution deeply engrained in everything that is human, from that want to put that dude on mars, to the fat woman in the checkout line with the doritos, to me smoking a cigarette when one of my main study areas is carcinogenic agents.
EDIT: ha ha ha, sorry, it's my field of study. Evolutionary biology and psychology.
I believe that, should earth's population get ridiculously high, the price of a square meter of land will be expensive enough for a gazzillionaire to think it will be economically feasible to build his own sun orbiting biosphere thingamagic.
Colonizing planets may be stupid because of the gravitational difference, but there's nothing wrong with a big-ass spinning ring zooming through space.
I believe that, should earth's population get ridiculously high, the price of a square meter of land will be expensive enough for a gazzillionaire to think it will be economically feasible to build his own sun orbiting biosphere thingamagic.
Colonizing planets may be stupid because of the gravitational difference, but there's nothing wrong with a big-ass spinning ring zooming through space.
i can seriously do a bit of driving up north and find myself literally hundreds of miles from civilization, surronded by (motherfucking cold) forests and nature
life is good
glad i don't live in india!
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thorgotthere is special providencein the fall of a sparrowRegistered Userregular
edited July 2008
yeah but people would rather live in space than in canada
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Yeah, that's what Oppenheimer told himself.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
Also, the popular "imagining the tenth dimension"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaYMESb8o&feature=user
But this is hardly futuristic stuff
I am not talking about flying drones or whatever. I want to see like 4 ft tall robot death machines thank you. That might help with the overpopulation thing. I mean we are all going on about using robots and stuff for going into space and fixing our problems here at home.
Where are all my robots taking care of buisness here on earth?
Oh and, love bots. Come on now, we may be able to genetically engineer super-bimbos that are physically perfect in every way, but you'd still have to listen to them drone about the latest fashion or Holo-show.
Maybe if you prefaced it with a mandatory play through of a Silent Hill game.
Air drop in some PS2's and after a few days send in a few hundred Big Dog's to terrify everyone.
it's a software issue
specifically, a target recognition and situation assessment issue
we've got the hardware to build bad-ass death machines. this technology exists
what we don't have is 100% reliable software that can safely and quickly distinguish enemy from friendly from non-hostile from lamp-post and be able to figure out and adapt to a situation quickly.
shit, we can't even get human soldiers to do that shit with 100% reliability.
basically the only practical use for a ground combat robot at this point is the sort of thing you'd just use a bomb for anyway: when you want to kill a fuckton of things in an area and ain't the pickiest bout how it gets done or who it gets done to
But I guess thats the first thing I think of rather than "FarmerBot 2000! Fix your fields and harvest the produce in 1/8th the time!"
i ain't the guy with a boner for space
we have a population distribution problem
those are different problems.
The arms race is practically synonymous with the technology race
Fuck you and fuck the implications you're making with this statement. I don't want people to waste their lives meaninglessly. I want people to waste their lives however the hell they want to. You can see a person's desire to live on Mars as meaningless to yourself. Hell, I can see it as being meaningless to myself. If that's what they want to do though, I want to believe they can do it.
Agreed, of course.
It is a wonderful thought though. I will be a happy man when there is something that can take the place of that first man through the breech, that doesn't mind getting shot a few times...
I don't.
I don't want to believe that fat broad ahead of me in the check-out aisle is really gonna buy six bags of doritos and start wolfing them down as she's paying for them.
I don't want to believe she's so self-absorbed and stupid to not realize her own self-destructive behavior
but there she goes, doing it anyway.
I want to believe people are good.
They just don't want to be a lot of the time.
I don't let that bring me down, I remain optimistic.
Do you?
Wasting time on what we want to do, or being ruthlessly efficient while denying our own hopes and dreams?
I always tend to blame our evolutionary biology when it comes to the staggering stupidity of the common man, and I live in a northern ontario hick town so I see alot of stupid people.
I prefer to think of it as tempering one's hopes and dreams.
Realizing that space is a largely worthless wasteland of nothing that is only useful for scientific study and resource gathering at some future date.
And growing out of silly fanciful notions of people putting silly spacesuit footprints on red sand just to say we did it.
I think of it as growing up.
you overthink biology, i think.
the one consistent thing you've been saying all along is "it's just our nature, man! it's how we're wired! all we can do is change the code!"
i don't believe that.
I don't believe you give society and anthropological development enough credit for the complexities and wonder of the human experience.
EDIT: ha ha ha, sorry, it's my field of study. Evolutionary biology and psychology.
How're those drugs helping with your exploded spine anyway?
i think that's poor.
they're not.
i've stopped taking them because they cause more pain than they are relieving
it didn't actually explode
it's just damaged, see
it had lesions in it
well that's not really good action movie material now is it?
no but i mean i could be played by ralph fiennes and be cared for by a lovely nurse
it won't court the vin diesel crowd but it'll get an oscar or two
Shrapnel is not polite.
i would go so far as to say it is downright inconsiderate
but naw, i had shingles, bad times, it fucked up my nerves and now i got serious damage and pain that i can honestly describe as unimaginable
it may account for my surly demeanor
but i doubt it
think i'm just a prick
Colonizing planets may be stupid because of the gravitational difference, but there's nothing wrong with a big-ass spinning ring zooming through space.
I also predict the rise of space prostitutes.
there's only part of your post that makes sense
can you figure out what it is
Oh wait, no, populations tend to bunch up in certain spots then claim it's overpopulated.
life is good
glad i don't live in india!