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  1. Re:Help start the revolution! by sproketboy · · Score: 1 · on Scientific R&D At Home?

    Don't you mean http://www.robotuprising.com/home.htm ? :)

  2. Why worry? We alreay have a survial manual by sproketboy · · Score: 2, Funny · on Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

    http://www.robotuprising.com/home.htm

  3. Alpha = Omega? by sproketboy · · Score: 1 · on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions

    FTA: "And - like Mathematica, or NKS - the project will never be finished."

    You don't finish Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Alpha finishes you.

  4. It works both ways... by ExecutorElassus · · Score: 1 · on Examining the Ethical Implications of Robots in War
    I'm reminded of this article, whose first paragraph is really all you need to read:

    The most effective way to find and destroy a land mine is to step on it. This has bad results, of course, if you're a human. But not so much if you're a robot and have as many legs as a centipede sticking out from your body. That's why Mark Tilden, a robotics physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, built something like that. At the Yuma Test Grounds in Arizona, the autonomous robot, 5 feet long and modeled on a stick-insect, strutted out for a live-fire test and worked beautifully, he says. Every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield. Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working splendidly. The human in command of the exercise, however -- an Army colonel -- blew a fuse. The colonel ordered the test stopped. Why? asked Tilden. What's wrong? The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg. This test, he charged, was inhumane.
    So, if we start feeling empathy for our new robotic soldiers, I wonder how long it will be before the robots themselves -- with the new ethical algorithms we're giving them -- start to as well, and rise up.
    How to Survive a Robot Uprising should be required reading.
  5. Re:Double oblig... by LiquidAvatar · · Score: 1 · on First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq

    So, will we all need guides for survival in the near future?

  6. A picture is worth a thousand words by sproketboy · · Score: 1 · on Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns

    A picture is worth a thousand words
    From: How to survive a robot uprising

  7. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Near Future of Intel

    Do you really want a giant robot that can potentially kick your ass?

    http://www.robotuprising.com/

  8. www.robotuprising.com by rur902 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion

    there be a How to Survive a Robot Uprising website, mateys.