theneverfox
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- Comment on political debate 1 day ago:
It’s making light of murder in broad daylight, possibly also implying that Kirk deserved it
Which, no matter how you slice it, is way too spicy for professional settings. Most people were scared by both events, not because they know of or care about the victims, but because the media talks about it in a scary voice
- Comment on political debate 1 day ago:
That’s very different, making fun of the dead is way less socially acceptable than calling white supremacists bad people
In this case I think that’s pretty funny, but that’s still a spicy joke
- Comment on Hue hue hue 2 days ago:
Not filliments, conductors. Such as the ones running through through your home
You can build a basic radio manually with a little bit of know how. If you have spare capacitors, they’re likely to survive and be pretty replaceable. You can rig up an antenna out of any wire, it just needs to be the correct length and it’ll work to some degree.
If your entire house goes up in flames at once, well, spare parts are probably not on the table
- Comment on political debate 2 days ago:
Only if you’re in the media
- Comment on North Korea's Kim oversees drone test, orders AI development 3 days ago:
Lmao, what? That’s the size of a fighter jet
- Comment on labubu 3 days ago:
They are demonic. The business practices are pure evil… And the dolls themselves are unsettling, like a furbee or something, but that’s neither here nor there
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 6 days ago:
It’s capitalism, but the government does it’s job and hammers down companies that get too big to fail
There’s also all the one party authoritarian bullshit, but main concept is the government remain the strongest power
- Comment on A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour 6 days ago:
What about when you really do have plot armor? When you can jump off a building and land flat footed, but your efforts never give you more then you need?
The difference between main character syndrome and plot armor is that people with plot armor aren’t the writers of their story
- Comment on AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.' 6 days ago:
It means the situation is on the brink of consequences due to frustration
- Comment on Cooking 1 week ago:
No, this is charcoal. If you leave the stove on low enough that the contents don’t reach flashpoint, you basically burn the ingredients without fire
And that gives you lumps of carbon with the rest burned away
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
Yeah, well, searching things is impossible these days, and after clicking around for a while I found one that looked similar.
I did read an article about one, went to their page and it was listed as $8k, I looked up the specs and it looked like it could pick up about 20lbs and has a weak but reasonable grip, and it made an impact. Then I saw video of someone recording one running down a sidewalk - it was a cell phone recording, but the robot was controlled by someone filming a demo in public
I don’t really care if you take me at my word or not, the price factor to me means more because it means every robotics program in the world will be able to play with them.
But again, this isn’t the core of my argument at all, but by the time I was looking up links I was kinda getting bored with this. I like to argue over ideas, it’s a field I’m following closely with so much happening and we’re just too far apart to make this constructive.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
I think it’s inevitable because capitalism, capitalism loves to treat people like replaceable cogs.
These would be literal replaceable cogs that never rest, don’t have rights, don’t need to account for safety concerns, and don’t have any of the other messy human bits
And even if we managed to suddenly outgrow capitalism, being able to have robots making robots in space would be a huge game changer
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
I see one for $43k on there, I don’t see any for $200k on that site
But that’s kinda irrelevant, as is how much Amazon’s robots cost. The point is how quickly robotics is advancing
There’s so many companies making these that I can’t find the one I saw weeks ago. They’re being tested in real world conditions. There’s a million groups playing with these things, trying to get them to do more and more tasks
And think of what full automation would look like… It would be a bunch of factory equipment like it is now. The automatons just need to carry and place stuff between stations, maybe slot things together and screw them in. That’s not that high a bar
I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable if society doesn’t collapse this decade
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
You realize it’s an order? They’re a sub organization under the Catholic Church, they have their own leadership
Anyways, there’s a cabal of pedophiles and consulting companies like McKinsey who are the literal global elite fucking everything up. They’re connected to everything and leave a paper trail.
It’s all out in the open, they’ve been grilled before Congress repeatedly, but no one takes it seriously. You can spend an afternoon just in their Wikipedia page, under controversies you have a list of just the things they were caught doing
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
Did you not convert from yuan or something lol?
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
I know I half assed those links, but your numbers are an order of magnitude off lmao
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
The Jesuit order? The most reasonable and educated branch of any religion I’ve ever met? The order dedicated to knowledge?
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
No… I’ve never seen those before. That’s not what I’m talking about at all, I also think the Tesla robots piloted by humans are probably going nowhere, for the record
Want to run failed startups past me some more? I gave you examples of humanoid robots being tested in real world conditions
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
Lmao… That’s a wild take. Boston dynamics has been steadily improving this whole time, they were the first to really crack bipedal locamotion. Not just walking, running and flipping. Carrying loads. Kipping back up to their feet
You can, right now, for $8k buy a humanoid robot that can run, and be controlled to do whatever else. That’s insane
And you can get shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially. These exist and are for sale
Amazon is currently field testing humanoid robots that deliver packages from the truck to the door.
Your knowledge is very dated, friend.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
No, I’m talking about automonous humanoid robots specifically. The rollers and shelf bots have been around for years
NVidia also just released a big suite of tools to train AI for robotics, it’s basically a huge physics sandbox where you can train and test models at scale before real world testing
Boston dynamics and others are currently writing/lobbying regulations for bipedal robots so that they can meet safety requirements - current safety standards require an emergency shutoff switch, but bipedal robots fall over if they don’t balance, which isn’t particularly safe
This is happening, and quickly. None of them have the dexterity to machine parts, but the range of tasks they can do is rapidly expanding
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean you might be right, but I imagine the martyr thing could go either way
Just putting myself in their shoes, it probably won’t feel nice having their dad constantly praised for doing what they saw him die doing
Plus, Charlie Kirk was more hated than loved. There’s no putting them so deep in a bubble that they aren’t confronted with that fact
Kids tend to either follow or reject their parents beliefs… I’m not sure what this kind of trauma does to that, but I’ll bet it’ll make it more extreme
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I do too… But I wouldn’t say they don’t stand a chance
Their dad got shot while encouraging gun violence. That might instill some strong opinions in them
The kind of strong opinions that will likely be buried and come out later in therapy
But it could go either way
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
The holy Roman empire fell centuries ago. The power it held was distributed to organizations we generally refer to as “the West”
The Pope has immense power… But soft power. The only army they can move is the Swiss guard
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
I don’t know what to tell you, other than it’s already happening. Once the first robot builds a second, it’s over. You can buy one that can physically do light tasks for $8k, this summer Amazon started using robots for deliveries and has been using them for packaging for longer
It’s not science fiction, it’s now an engineering problem, one that is progressing quickly
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
And if the machines are the ones building new parts, that, like many other things, goes out the window. They can even recycle and refurbish parts
- Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors 1 week ago:
Hey, yeah…I forgot they never actually fixed the Tik Tok situation over here
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 week ago:
The overhead on the robot is mostly maintenance, which is a humanoid skill. If the robots can maintain each other, or build each other, someone just won capitalism
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, what time period do you think we live in exactly?
- Comment on Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo 1 week ago:
Well that sounds neat