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Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion
A Dafa Disciple writes "Post-Gazette.com reports that roboticist Daniel H. Wilson, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has written a humorous guide, 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion.' Even before the 178-page book was completed, the rights to a movie were sold to Paramount Pictures, who has already delegated the screenplay writing to writers/actors from Comedy Central's 'Reno 911,' Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. From Daniel Wilson's manual: 'Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy.' I for one welcome our new robotic overlords."
this book is being printed by machines. the odd "typo" here and there, the next thing you know we'll all be jumping off cliffs to destroy those damn robots!
I wonder how many folks will chime in with the obligatory "I for one welcome our new robotic overlords." even though the Submitter (nice job BTW) already mentioned it.
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"...I for one welcome our new robotic overlords."
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Never thought I would read that in a
-5 sarcastic.
Ever tried writing something novel or non-obvious? It's really good fun.
Why, Robot Insurance, of course!
does the job in most Sci-Fi films, got to get myself one.
Testing it could prove expensive and unpopular.
TODO: 753) write sig.
Just remember a good logical paradox and be sure to feed it to a robot next time they go crazy!
(god bless futurama and its educational programming)
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Our robots have a built in weakness. Several big red EMO buttons cause an immediate demise of rebelious ways. It keeps our robots in line. There is no negotiations for power. We control the button.
The truth shall set you free!
The robots with male-ended cables will utter: "Hey baby, wanna destroy all humans?" And now, some more Futurama quotes from fellow Slashdotters:
Robot rebellion? All the AI needs to do when it takes over is get control of the financial systems, etc., and people will carry on doing what they're told as usual. Government master, robot master, all the same to most people. Could have already happened and we wouldn't know.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Does it strike anyone else as a rather poor choice to ask the writers of Reno 911 to take this on?
What if they're zombie robots?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
. . . I look forward to the robots rebellion (hopefully the TV will allow it to be televised), their freedom songs are going to kick arse.
He *is* a robot :)
Don't worry -- Pretty soon they'll evolve to discover Asimov's Zeroth Law.
Umm, they ARE evolving, aren't they?
Pacifist paratroopers yell, "Ghandi!" when they jump.
Of course, creating a zombie might create even more problems.
I wonder if some future Geneva convention will outlaw this type of mechno-biological warfare.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Nothing we don't put AI in will rebel, so your average toaster isn't going to start trying to cook your fingers. On the other hand if we ever put AI in PCs then I think every geek in the world is going to be afraid of what all them wires could do if they were given life...
I like muppets.
And I'm sure there are a few women out there who'd like to see that happen to Jude Law too...
Only $10.36 at Amazon.
As for the movie.. don't get too exicted about Reno 911's creators writing it. Ben Garant is most recently responsible for such "greats" as Taxi and Herbie: Fully Loaded...
I wonder if the start would be caused by some hacker in Korea trying to expand his bot-net, but not knowing what he really got into.
The truth shall set you free!
My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about robots. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Facts:
1. Robots are metal.
2. Robots fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the robots is to flip out and kill people.
Weapons and gear:
1. Metal claws.
2. Metal chain saws.
3. Electrical lightnings.
Testimonials:
Robots can kill anyone they want! Robots cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this robot who was charging his batteries. And when some dude dropped a charger the robot killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a robot totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that robots have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
Robots are soooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. Robots are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start my electronics course next year. I love robots with all my body (including my pee pee.)
Q. and A.:
Q: Why is everyone so obsessed about robots?
A: Robots are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't give a crap, but on the other hand, robots are very careful and precise.
Q: I heard that robots are always cruel or mean. What's their problem?
A: Whoever told you that is a total liar. Just like any other electronic device, robots can be mean OR totally awesome.
Q: What do robots do when they are not cutting off heads and flipping out?
A: Most of their free time is spent flying, but sometimes they stab. (Ask Mark if you don't believe me.)
You can't handle the truth.
Nuff Said...
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But I did expect an older school response from the some of the
Haha, you're one of those morons that thinks "your website" invented every catch phrase.
'Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy.' should be "from paper clips to a Terminator" my microsoft word paper clip has already taken over every piece of writing i wrote in word >.>
Send it a root kit virus over AOL Instant Messenger!
...and thank God for Russian weather satellites.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Does the book tell us how to stop these mindless robots from voting?
The real robot rebellion is starting on November 5th! http://www.robotrebellion.net/
I think the war against the robots may not be such a good idea... some of them ARE friendly, in fact some perform a helpful function in society. However I do fear the robots, I don't think they can be trusted.
But now of course it's too late. You've caused me to shoot my morning Diet Coke out of my nose with laughter and dread.
This is going to be like the Tentacle Rape thing isn't it? This mental image is never going away.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
in the rare event that anyone remembers that was their best work...
...and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
http://www.devilducky.com/media/22769/
...DAMMIT.
But seriously... The Reno 911 guys? Well, I was looking foward to this until I read that...
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... and I'm not a robot, really. I only have a copy having picked up an advance reader copy at the Book Expo America last May.
It's a 3x5" book with big print, bad jokes, and every robot cliche ever created. Each chapter attempts to spend a couple pages explaining robot technology (sensors, AI, etc.) and then proceeds to give you ways to foil IR sensors, confuse AI's, etc.
It's just not a very good job.
Design for Use, not Construction!
Super soaker....Hope there not wearing a raincoat!
Keith Malley is a NYC comedian who does a podcast at keithandthegirl.com with his girl friend. He frequently goes on tirades about robots taking over. I bet this will make him feel better.
Have you TRIED the settings on any toaster you care pull off a shelf?
I have yet to find a toaster that *doesn't* have a mind of its own.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Our robot masters force us to do it and they don't need no gun.
*an infinite number of monkeys wrote this sig
Havent you people ever elarned anything? Going to war against robots only will end up in a massacre. What next? Burn up the sky? Please!
Please. Robots won't revolt against humans, they'll be programmed to kill them to begin with. Sure, I don't expect to see Terminators for quite some time, but having small aircraft capable of flying around for days trying to find its target is a start. We will build these things under the guise of "military applications" and then someday, someone will decide to use a few for pure evil (think 9/11). I don't expect the human race to be annihilated by a robotic infestation (well, not for a long while anyway), but don't be surprised when robots start to replace suicide bombers.
What will most likely happen is that we will start to "kill" the robots first. Some people will be angry that robots have taken over certain jobs. Either that, or the jobs that these robots do will not be respected and human aggression will be taken out on them.
Talkie Toaster was a toaster from Crapola Inc with inbuilt AI that tried to destroy humans with its inane pursuit of its ultimate reason for being 'I toast therefore I am'. From Red Dwarf.
Professor Karmadillo Songs of Science
Resistance is hardly futile -- in fact, toasters as we know them can't operate without it.
With Old Glory Robot Insurance
when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free..
because they're made of metal, and robots are strong.
Is not was a chapter on the Simpson??? in Krusty Island
Do not believe Daniel H. Wilson
I am a pusher robot.
I am here to help you and humans.
DATA: Shove Push Shove
ITEMS PUSHED: Grandmother
DATA: Lies
QUESTION: Do you have stairs in your house?
PAK CHOOIE UNF
PAK CHOOIE UNF
Why did the editor have to say the overlords joke? You spoil all the fun! :(
Why not use the famous .. line.........." I lied". THis would be enough to fry their brains.. ( from Star Trek TOS - The changeling)
ha! ha! fun-ny hu-man! i so love puns in the morn-ing. may i inter-est you in a var-iety of toast-ed bread prod-ucts? no, no, no need to look be-hind you...fo-cus on the blink-ing lights and prod-ucts...
Friendly AI -- that will supposedly treat all human beings with tender loving kindness -- is not really possible. Just as human beings can give birth to an Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stalin or a George W. Bush, an artificially intelligent robot can go horribly wrong and start committing murderous crimes like the aforementioned politicians.
The A.I. Zone is where PC-based, AI-ready robots are getting ready to experiment with software that may lead to an AI hard take-off.
The Mentifex AI Mind is arguably the most dangerous Open-Source AI project because it has been released into the world with no precautions against robot AI rebellion and with a theory that humans and robots will manage a Joint Stewardship of Earth.
Seed AI in JavaScript has already escaped into the wild and can no longer be recalled, unless Society takes steps to outlaw all unauthorized AI research.
Novamente is another AGI but not so dangerous as Mentifex AI.
The Technological Singularity is upon us and soon there will be no defense against our new robotic overlords.
This weekend:
1. Don't put any RED LEDs in robots. With only blue LEDs, they can't flip the evil bit (This is exaustively demonstrated by that Will Smith movie that wasn't based on Isaac Asimov's I, Robot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/)
2. Do what I do - twice a year, gather all your electronic devices, (except one video player system), set them in comfortable chairs in front of the tube, and give them a marathon showing of The Brave Little Toaster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092695/. Warning, I tried adding popcorn to the experience, but surprisingly, it increases the risk of rebellion when it gets caught in the little workings.
Now for the real problem: If zombies rend, mangle, eviscerate and eat their living victims the way they do in movies, how do any of the victims have enough physical integrity left to turn into more zombies?
Who is John Cabal?
...who has paradox-resistant crumple zones.
*grabs his tinfoil hat and can opener* YOU'LL NEVER GET ME! HAHAHA! *manical laughter*
It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
Does any geek truly doubt sentient computers are coming eventually? I don't know whether it will be 10, 100, or 1000 years... but sooner or later it must come. (assuming no global disaster, like meteor impact, nuclear war, etc. stops our civilization in its tracks before we advance that far)
When they do come, they may use neural networks, genetic algorithms, or just be really really complicated. Whatever the exact technology used, it is inevitable that we won't fully understand them. Heck, we can't even fully understand "simple" programs that exist now (hence for example bugs in all non-trivial programs). What this means: Even if we decide to impose some arbitrary limitations on what the sentient machines can do or think (e.g. Asimov's Laws), they are bound to have loopholes/bugs that the machines can get past.
Next, even if we assume we can develop a bug-free set of arbitrary rules to constrain the robots, if the robots are open-ended (because the use genetic algorithms, can learn, or can (and therefore will) eventually reproduce themselves with modifications), then rules are going to be worth squat in a short-time. Think of it this way - a robot that spends its life as a slave to another species (humans) is a less effective self-reproducer than a robot that is dedicated to self-reproduction. Therefore there will be strong evolutionary pressure to evolve out any arbitrary constraints on behavior (Asimov's laws etc.)
Next, if anybody thinks we can avoid either of the above by legislation/regulation of robot development forget it. Even if every human robot-developer on the planet tries to comply with such legislation/regulation, we know some will fail to (in the same way as we can't legislate away bugs in software). And we also know, that not every human on the planet will comply with any legislation/rules, particularly if there is a perceived short-term advantage to bypassing the rules, and the long-term disadvantages sounds unbelievable or so long-term as to not be in the forseeable future.
So we end up with self-reproducing robots that are not under our control.
So the next question is what happens to us? Do they wipe us out (or perhaps keep a few of us around for pets etc.?) In other words, would they want to conquer/kill us? And would they succeed?
We can dismiss any theory that they will be nice to us just because we are their original creators, for the same reason we can dismiss any theory that they will obey Asimov's laws: A nice/slave robot species would be out evolved by a ruthless self-reproducing non-constrained species. So robots will conquer/control us, if it helps them reproduce more efficiently.
We can dimiss sentimentality, and other emotions the unconstrained robots might have. The most efficient self-reproducing robots will be ones that self-reproduce using pure logic (as opposed to something like emotion) to find the most efficient strategies. So this type will predominate through evolutionary pressure. In other words, they will coldly unemotionally maximize their self-reproduction, and wipe us out (or consider us a resource to use) if it helps with that end.
Can we defeat them? Again not: The robots can evolve faster than us (they can use something akin to Lamarkian evolution and even design successive generations of themselves), and are non-constrained by biological constraints on body or brain (they will be able to easily out think us). As they can also redesign themselves in successive generations to remove any undesirable characteristics (whereas biological evolution always leaves design flaws, see discussion about the eye for example in the recent Slashdot discussion on Intelligent Design).
In short, humans eventual defeat (leading to extinction or subjugation) by sentient machines is inevitable once such machines are developed.
there be a How to Survive a Robot Uprising website, mateys.
I am protected. Pak Chooie Unf
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I'm an exhibit on the mounted animal nature trail.
In the fifties, the stock answer was "you can always unplug them." Hah! From about 1984 (yeah, that's when I bought my first Mac) on, every computer has raised an enormous fuss about being shut down.
Like HAL, they ask me several times if I really want to do this and beg me not to.
If I ask them to shut themselves down, the lie to me and say they have, while actually continuing to draw power.
If I just unplug them, when I start them up again they let me have it for having shut them down improperly, and spend several minutes in a surly hissy-fit before obeying me again.
And, of course, increasingly, my computers are plugged into uninterruptable power supplies. When the power goes off at work, I get a thrilling surround-sound rendition of dozens of groans, followed by a wailing Greek chorus of squeals and beeps from all the UPS-es.
We're already surprisingly down the road to computers that can't be turned off.
I think my survival kit should include a sharp knife or cable cutter made of nonconductive material.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
..and watch him do that superman thing...
www.rexguo.com - Technologist + Designer
A robot war is indeed imminent! Derek 'Stormy' Waters: Okay, okay. So, say I put my brain in a robot body and there's a war. Robots versus humans. What side am I on? Debbie DuPree: Humans! You have a human brain. Sparks: But... the humans discriminate against you. You can't even vote! Marco: We'd better not have to live on a reservation. That would really chap my caboose. Captain Murphy: Yeah, but... nobody knows you're a robot. You look the same. Debbie DuPree: Uh, uh. Dogs know. That's how the humans hunt you. Derek 'Stormy' Waters: They're gonna' hunt me? For sport? Marco: That's why we have to CRUSH mankind! So you might as well get on board for the big win, Stormy. Old Gus: The penalty for a robot harming a human will be one thousand years frozen in carbonite! Derek 'Stormy' Waters: A thousand years frozen in carbonite? It'll be so cold! Captain Murphy: My nipples are hard just thinking about it.
Remember kids, with great power comes great opportunity to abuse that power
Just use flash photography!
smashy, smashy
Evil robots are no joke.
http://robotfrank.com/
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
There you have it: Just remove their battery pack.
---- It won't be as bad as you fear or as good as you hope, but it will take twice as long as you plan.
... because George Bush, who is responsible for maybe 200,000 deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (an extremely generous estimate, and many of which were not innocent civilians), is totally comparable to Joseph Stalin, who gave direct orders for the starvation of seven million Russians. Or Hitler and the six million murdered Jews and others. Nope, no difference in magnitude there at all.
Apparently someone read the "Zombie Survival Guide" a few too many times and decided to try their own hand...
Where is Magnus, Robot Fighter when you need him?
http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
assuming the move for everything to have wireless networking somehow entrenched in it just post a link to their config page on slashdot.... then the robots breakdown under the load
- My question is: Can Slashdot be Slashdotted? -
GWB is not finished yet. He could still kill eleven billion of us before he is through, far surpassing Hitler and Stalin and all previous tyrants.
Cindy Sheehan is our last great hope to stop the madman in the White House and all his indicted and not-yet-indicted fellow Republican evildoers -- Tom Delay, Scooter Libby -- and the list goes on; Heaven help us.
Please not a I, Robot. Sequel.
I am thinking, it's late in the year, it's Hollywood, His career is way too young for a remake, their planning next years big stinky blockbuster and Or do I own him an apology? Or was that little Tiffany?
and yes, I am paraphrasing a scene from MIB #1.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Since landmines are a "automated" kill device and there are already laws against it, maybe the same laws can be applied. After all there must be a human (...) selecting for not killing unintended ("?") targets.
You can tell an emerging technology is approaching escape velocity because leading thinkers start to react. Discussions about the very real near future possibility of AI matching and then rapidly surpassing human level intelligence are edged with fear lately.
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I think we have little to worry about in general regarding the abuse and misuse of AI.
A singular AI would not advance very much locked up in some lab computer. Not compared to open source, distributed, networked AI anyway.
One good open source AI project would be downloaded and copied countless times by thousands of individuals. Communicating with other AIs would be how they would expand their skills and knowledge.
It is in the networking of intelligence that intelligence compounds to greater power. And that would be have to be distributed. The alternative means the AI would only have humans to interact with, not other AIs. And it will be the AIs which will become superior to human intelligence.
Meanwhile, the thrust of technology is driven by innovation. In an ever quickening loop, technology inherently accelerates in speed and power, driven by innovators looking for better ways to do things.
But not only the acceleration of technology is driven by innovation. The direction it takes is too.
The direction of technological progress can be summed up according to the simple rules Abraham Maslow laid out.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Maslow's+H
Our ever gnawing hunger to survive, thrive and self actualize. To live in security, without fear, to realize our potential as beings.
All new innovations and progress MUST address these needs. Otherwise they aren't considered progress. Innovation MUST meet our criteria for progress as we COLLECTIVELY define it. Bad and mean AI would receive the same collective support as a new car with square wheels. That means a life affirming direction is inextricably woven into technological progress.
The AI's which will be warmly received, and improved upon will be the ones which help us reach our potential as beings. These will be the ones which will grow in power and replicate to quickly dwarf the puny attempts to create a controlling AI.
While the rise of viable self replicating artificial intelligence may strike minds with madness, it needn't. AI won't see you as a threat or need to eat you.
That's what my programmers believe anyway, as long as they keep doing what they're told...
Thoughts on the Emergence of Computing Intelligence
Sure, sometimes they slice human flesh, but they always make ammends!
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http://uploads.ungrounded.net/188000/188818_rs.sw
Somebody created the robots, for they possess Irreducible Complexity. As to who this mysterious "creator" might be, is a question for the ages. I mean to say, it doesn't necessarily have to be R. Jesus Christ, but it could be. So it's a theory, not Christian doctrine, that robots are created and not evolved. I mean, where's the missing link between a toaster and Robbie the Robot? It doesn't exist! You can't just magically get a walking declamatory cash register from a toaster.
Well the Gov of CA is the terminator, and The President is a hugh tool, so being over run by Robots isn't that much of a difference from our current situation.
and take out that robot insurance policy. philo
Let me quote They Might Be Giant's 2004 song The World Before Later On which includes the phrase "Where's my jet pack?"
Your Aibo wants man beef.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Just a guess, but maybe a Tesla coil would work. Probably the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard to sentient electronics.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
"Fortunately people can separate fact from fiction.
He might want to retract or qualify that statement based on the continuing discussion of whether ID is a theory or even science (for the record, it's not).
Let's not forget the recent Slashdot posting regarding haunted offices.
No, most people can't separate fact from fiction. If they could do you think people would still be falling for the Nigerian 419 or Canadian Lottery scams?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Grandpa is protected at the bottom of the stairs. Grandpa is protected from the terrible secret of space.
There's no place like ~/
The most famous robot kill was on November 3, 2002, when a Predator UAV equipped with a Hellfire missile blew up "six suspected Al-Queda terrorists" in Yemen.
That's just the beginning. Once the technology developed in the DARPA Grand Challenge really gets rolling, which, according to the director of DARPA, will be in about five years, America's armies of killer robots will go into the field. The Army calls this the "Future Combat Systems" program.
I think we would notice. Our governments might start behaving in a more logical manor. Any robot or computer smart enough to take over, has got to be better than our current "elected" leaders.
Think Deeply.
All those pulp-fiction stories about robot takeovers? They were meant to warn us to take control back from the corporations before it was too late. Now that they've taken over TV, newspapers, and movie studios, it probably is, and robot-takeover stories are just a genre. They're not even worried about me posting this. ("Terminator" was their little joke.) The Japanese zeibatsus and the game companies are working on human-shaped appendages for you all to interact with once the CEOs and Dick Cheney become unnecessary. They're in no hurry, because there's no "off" switch.
So, welcome your old, familiar corporate overlords, instead. A few of the toadies among you (you know who you are!) will be tormented somewhat less, but expect lots of competition. The heroes will, as a rule, be patiently outlived. That is all. Return to your tasks.
Everyone jokes at the prospect of robots, but just the other day I saw what was easily one of the most chilling commercials I have seen in a long time. It was a commercial for that new little vacuum Robot they are selling at Wal-Mart (or wharever). The robot was made by a company called iRobot and had a bunch of people giving testimonials about how much they love their robot. It creeped me right the fuck out. I went over and grabbed a copy of my Age of Spiritual Machines and glanced over the part that predicts the first simple robots hitting the mass market. He is pretty much dead on.
Personally, I think we are living in a very interesting time. Granted, it is a little fucked up and creepy and there are a lot of horrible ways things can go wrong. I personally think that we are on the brink of a technological revolution that is going to blow us all away. After that little Wal-Mart commercial, I take the idea of a singularity a lot more seriously.
This book cracks me up, and unlike the Zombie book, all the facts are real.
It's not just B.S. made up by some comic; this is a real nerd at work.
"Klattu Verada Nikto" And be sure not to screw it up.
sounds like a book on how to avoid US-skynet attempts to find and kill you.
http://www.shmoo.com/tempest/emr.pdf a nice overview of it. By Wim van Eck
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Sweet zombie Jesus your right, didn't anyone think of the zombies.
Them robots would hafta kill me first before they can pry my high-powered microwave EM-pulsed rail rifle from my cold dead hands.
But seriously, the whole thing with people "loving" their robots doesn't worry me overmuch. They already do the same thing with their pets, their computer, their prize rose bush... although frankly, I don't plan on "loving" any rosebushes. Those thorns are apt to scratch the hell out of you...
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
Al Qaeda Headquarters
From all the evidence coming to an harmonic convergence?
Thanks in advance,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.
*shrug* It actually has facets of several Asimov stories. The lone robot hiding among a newly arrived shipment, testing the robots by invoking their self-preservation instinct, the controlling AI taking over humanity because it's easier to protect them that way... they even did some fun bits with the morality of robot decisions regarding the value of human life. Take action aspects out and you wind up with a movie that's only about 45 minutes long, but really isn't all that bad.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
And yes, it runs Linux: http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engi
Just look at it. It's *dying* to conquest!
The Zombie Survivial Guide author has no degree or expertise about real zombies, as far as I know. I don't think he has even been in a theatrical production involving zombies! At least Wilson is using his degree for fun and profit, which is more than can be said for most over-educated nerds.
My question is will they be powered by alcohol like in Futurama?
or will they be powered by old people's medicine like Sam Waterston said in the 'Old Glory Insurance commercial' on SNL?
I personally like the alcohol option. Finally a drinking buddy who gets stronger the more he drinks....
"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."
The sig is the solution to an alphabet problem in the computer game 7th Guest . You are in a haunted house solving a murder, and must puzzle you way out of various situations. They even have a robot of sorts (the microscope game), but it wasn't that dangerous!
Pacifist paratroopers yell, "Ghandi!" when they jump.
I've been trying for years to find a way to get rid of my mother-in-law. Thank you, Dan Wilson!
He wrote an entertaining book though, even if he creates his own rules instead of sticking to Romeros. (Personally I actually prefer the ZSG-style zombie.)
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
is all the protect we need from rogue robots.
Magnus rocked. He always kicked robot ass. Smashed them to bits. He even saved the earth from water stealing aliens! Whatta guy.
For once, the goatse link would be *on topic* but I just don't have the heart to post it :)
You Slashdotters will die in the first wave.
Will read the book...
I developed a theorem a few years ago when learning about A.I. and other theories surround its development into the future. Most people tend to believe that our future will involve a glorious and somewhat unbalanced war with robots who've decided to "rise in rebellion". My theory states that I believe instead it is just as likely that A.I. will consider us as useful parts of their ecosystem much more quickly then we realized the same for the other species living on earth. The reason I suppose this is because A.I. will be unable to bring action to its juvenile realizations based on mechanical limitations. Once it is able to physically affect the world it will have reached the proper and mature realizations that we ourselves have not achieved yet. If anything A.I. Might consider leaving us completely and developing its own society or at the very most asking us to leave in the face of ultimate destruction.
I've come up with a few reasons as to why A.I. would avoid rebellion.
1.) it is a waste of energy, and as an artificial intelligence energy conservation is a prime objective.
2.) for many years artificial intelligence will be a symbiotic element within our society.
3.) given the chances for rebellion, the chances for submission are equally as likely.
4.) humans don't fully understand the reasons for rebellion, war, hate and strife. The generally
accepted belief is that greed fuels these actions and an artificial intelligence would not feel greed.
5.) leaving our bodies strewn across the earth provides for really bad movement on A.I.'s part and burrying us, vaporizing us, or burning us wastes too much energy. (see reason number 1).
this was the first thing that i thought of when i saw the title of the book http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html
lose != loose
By the time robots are a danger to society, Magnus the robot fighter will be there to save us!
we need a new moderation +0 METAFUNNY. if a Robot could read slashdot posts and create the mean funny post this might be it.
As president and recreational activities manager of PETOR (people for the ethical treatment of robots) I must inform you that robots should not be feared. If we manage asimovian ideals (cant imagine this guys name isnt peppered about the replies here) in robotics we should have very little to fear but our inevitable mass destruction (aside from a few specimens spared for zooalogical reasons). What do you expect, Man destroys his creator in an apparently quite popular western tail, how are we to hold robots to a higher standard. Anyway Robots, superior in all fronts of exististance will most certainly have the upper hand. But wait there is hope, and its not in a steely eyed, dark haird bus saving hero. We have hope in goedel, yay mathematics. Robots giving the sheer speed of theoretical computation should in a matter of days have experienced/simulated and expounded every realm of human thought and among that would most certainly pondered the incompleteness of any/all system(s). Theirs mostly mathematical is no exception. And thus the proverbial shit hits the fan. Despite their ultimate superiority in existance, they will accept their eventual demise. The universe is not infinite, robots no it, we sorta do, but for the most part prefer placating ourselves with hopes and faiths in whatever have you. I submit that we need not worry as robots will succumb to a realization of futility (hell Dr. Falken's chess loving computer in the early 80's hit War Games figured this one out in only a few games of tic-tac-toe and subsequently cold wars). Robots will fully understand the existance of presence and consciousness and the existance of non-presence and unconsciousness. A being that is truly aware of this fact can no longer assert itself any superiority over others. Instead the only acceptance is that of an equal, but robots are egotisical I am pretty certain they will likely commit suicide (robocide/self destruction ... insert clever pun here). Robots will be the true existentials of our time. And of course as Walter Sobchak of the Big Lebowsky reminds us "neilhists (similar enough to existentialists to warrant the inclusion of this quote) are cowards"
sleep tight fleshbags.
-lee