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[–] [S] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Imagine working at Boston Dynamics and not seeing this coming.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    Well, to be fair... so-called "corporate culture" does do awful things to your brain - especially when you're young and naive. The cognitive dissonance (that is essentially mandatory) is so thick you could make (extremely toxic) cheese out of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    That's the line? That's what they choose to say is too far?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    "I thought the machine gun turret was for sport duck hunting".

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  • 7 comments in c/crimes_of_ice@lemmy.4d2.org view that post
    [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    but executives stood by the deal, while saying the robots would not be weaponized

    Even if that was the only problem, even if they signed a paper agreeing to penalties if that claim was broken; I still wouldn't want it or believe them.

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  • Don’t protest openly. Instead, build stealthy, plausibly deniable backdoors.

    If the regime wants to play fucky-fuck games with engineers, we can get extremely creative with malicious compliance.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 weeks ago

    "these were supposed to be used to kill brown peoplein the middle east!"

    • Boston Dynamics employees
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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    They work for the evil murder robot company. What were they expecting?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    What a bunch of useful idiots. What did they think they were building? Like, how can you be literate and this ignorant of history?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    This was always going to happen.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Remember: robots aren't individuals, and are thus not officers like real dogs would be. Sniping them or passing them a cocktail is mere vandalism.

    Right?

    The question is, who gets sued when they murder a child in a car on sketchy pretext?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They were fine building semi autonomous killbots that would be used what? By the US military on brown people on the other side of the world.

    But brown people on your own side of the world is unconscionable?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Hey software developers in silicon valley were happy to disrupt other people's jobs and circumvent regulations under the guise of "disruption" like it was a good thing. Hotels and taxi drivers with Air B&B and Uber/waymo and now AI does it to everyone, including software developers. As fine a leopards ate my face as any, perhaps even an "I, as a face eating leopard, ate my own face" moment.

    This is no different. Boston Robotics employees won't realize what they've done until their creations are turned on them.

    Schadenfreude is cold comfort, but its the best we have at the moment.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    The robot leopard eating faces company employees: certainly these robots will not eat faces.

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