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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."
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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...
A directional, single-use EMP gun is fairly easy to build. Basic premise is to take a tube of explosive, wrap an electromagnet around it, then set off the explosive from one end. There are directions around... These are fairly low-power devices, but can take out most normal electronics at close range.
Of course, anyone who is actually worried about EMP devices being used against them can shield their equipment. It's not particularly hard, just expensive and inconvient. All you need is a Fariday Cage around the electronics you need shielded.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
Bah, Fry stole it from Captain Kirk, the original Robot Paradox creator! He destroyed robots on at least 3 separate occasions using his masterful use of nonsense statements and paradoxes.
Shick's Law: There is no problem a good miracle can't solve.
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.
Faraday cloth, a mesh woven from copper wire(usually), is pretty cheap and you can drape it over most anything. There are even companies that sell baseball caps with farady cloth liners. No need for tin foil anymore. :)
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.
there be a How to Survive a Robot Uprising website, mateys.
Apparently someone read the "Zombie Survival Guide" a few too many times and decided to try their own hand...
Warning: Do not eat rebelling robot.
Where is Magnus, Robot Fighter when you need him?
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.