You ask on a link aggregator…

No, no there’s not. The Internet is dying, the best you’re going to get is human made submissions

You could put yourself on some mailing lists, otherwise a well curated set of communities is about as good as it gets

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Did you not convert from yuan or something lol?

I know I half assed those links, but your numbers are an order of magnitude off lmao

Yeah ok

Amazon delivery robots

$8k robot

The Jesuit order? The most reasonable and educated branch of any religion I’ve ever met? The order dedicated to knowledge?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hey, yeah…I forgot they never actually fixed the Tik Tok situation over here

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

I’m sorry, what time period do you think we live in exactly?