ICE could soon deploy Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs, a move raising concerns among some activists about surveillance, control and potential misuse.

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    I’m going to be getting a new bra for this. A trap for boobies is what I mean. It would be this long corridor entrance to my house with automatic doors on either end. If you are expected you open the door and come in. Otherwise if you’re a robot, as soon as you enter, both doors close and there will be a laser grid traveling from side to side chopping everything into little cubes. Or a large flame. Or maybe pointy rods shoot from bottom, top and sides and then retract.

    Or maybe I would just have a 2X4 on the ready. I’m pretty sure those things can be wacked with a 2X4 easily.

    Whichever is cheaper.

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      Don’t James Bond what you can MacGuiver.

      The Boston Dynamics dogs have a number of failsafe stop modes. One of which is loss of controller connection. Which can be made from some shit from the hardware store and a circuit board you can order online.

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        Speak for yourself, why do you think they need AI and robots and all the shit they do? They don’t actually have that many goons and their tech is mostly grifts, we outnumber the state forces massively, we just have to fight back.

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          We outnumber them, but none of us really get along. We arent together how we should be. They have divided us and can control us

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            Your fellow Americans will definitely turn on you. The 2nd amendment people will likely join the government’s side if shit does go down. That means fighting the government, and the crazy militia people, and your loyalist neighbors, and possibly even friends, and family that turn on you.

            I think you are the most accurate here even if the truth is unpopular.

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              Even the people that wouldn’t turn, or are on our side. We are too divided. Our groups are too small, we can make fun of proud boys, but wtf do we got that equals that? Most democrats i know that hate Trump are still racist too so I dont fully trust them.

              If people want to admit it or not, the right is much much further ahead of us in this fight.

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            I don’t know, I don’t have that issue, there are many people of different types and groups I talk to and we all seem to agree that the nazis are bad. It’s true people aren’t exactly cohesive or acting in an organized manner against these forces yet, but the people power is there.

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      Of course. They make the robots all cute until it’s time for actually using them against people.

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    Nobody thought I was serious! Back in zzeddit I had stated again and again, you’ll be running away from one of those things one day. It will have a turret on it shooting at you. But nah, oh look, isn’t it a marvel? Now here are the consequences.

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    I’m not for vandalizing, but this is so clearly dystopian and reminiscent of a precise Black Mirror episode I’d want to kick the shit out of them as soon as I saw them.

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      LOL genuinely before entering comments I thought to myself that this is something that Elon Musk would think up.

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        That was a artist’s display at a gallery last year, they actually walked around. Elon Musk doesn’t think up anything.

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        You can order custom DNA sequences from automated labs.

        Search for “custom dna synthesis” and you’ll find dozens of companies doing this. An AI could easily order a virus.

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          Why bother? the dumbest people in the world are more than willing to hand it any resources it could want even if it means killing everyone else and eventually themselves.

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    Will the robots comprise the most despicable, twisted, and unskilled units in robot society who can’t contribute anything worthwhile to the collective benefit of its peers? Will the robots be wearing masks?

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    Just a fucking matter of time. Abolish ICE and start the ICE trials. It’s time to put these nazis back in the facist Neo confederate hole they oozed out off.