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[–] DeathbringerThoctar 225 points 5 days ago (3 children)

DARPA: "we just finished playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and honestly, we think we can make this idea work."

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Obligatory "fuck Ted Faro"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Average techbro tbh

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

... to see tech approach the point...

Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn't care.

Unless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

My god, what a cunt.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well they are still missing the self replicating part... But you know, give it some time.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 4 days ago

The machines will code that themselves.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Apparently its the other way around. This tech is old: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/19/robots-research

News to me. I loved the game andI really thought the plot was original.