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Ooh, movie idea: a take on The Most Dangerous Game where some rich dude uses an AI system to hunt humans for sport but the AI, being programmed to hunt something dangerous, determines that the rich dude is now the target because he’s the one setting the whole thing up. Tables are turned. Maybe the rich dude now finds himself in the trenches with the poor folks he’d captured?
In a timeline where the US war machine, among others, continues to function exactly like an infinite money glitch; we get to experience the privilege of watching an ever accelerating boom of brilliant innovations, all with the shared purpose of continuing to drive humanity backwards.
As it has ever been. Radar. GPS. Digital imagery. Friggin microwave ovens. All military-first inventions.
I read an interesting article that said our current scifi dystopia trajectory is more along the lines of Philip K. Dick than Asimov or Huxley. If you haven’t seen screamers you might want to check it out. Basically there’s a war between a megacorporation and a union of scientists, so the scientists invent autonomous drones that kill everyone with a heart but and ofcourse the drones become sentient.
Theodore Kaczynski knew things.
Drone companies tend to be truly awful at cybersecurity. These drones will probably be relatively easy to disable.
The issue is that they will also be relatively easy to seize control of, as well as that those in control of them to begin with will have malicious intent.
These would be a fun target for an oxyacetylene air vortex cannon, though.
I already hear Amodei spilling warnings about rogue AIs taking over drones.
Didn’t take long to recreate the movie Runaway. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
In GPS and RF denied environments too. You know, your typical search and rescue scenario.
In the very mild defense of this application, in a natural disaster situation, communications often are interrupted. Not GPS, though.
Yeah, for lack of a better explaination, GPS is just yelled at you from space everywhere on earth.
Hm depends maybe for caves
ahh yes, for those search and rescue scenarios where someone is running away from you in a dense forest in a cave, in case you end up needing to perform rescues on the Terraria planet
Or maybe … Under water!
But for real caves are a very problematic area and having something self driven solves many of them. I am not talking about big caves here but small ones that are liked by cave divers to die in.
I’m surprised that mass produced drone swarms haven’t been deployed against populations yet. The economics of it is terrifying.
I remember playing black ops 2 a long time ago and when a friend of mine played, he always used the drone swarm killstreak.
I remember him laughing once about how the map we were on barely had cover from them.
I told him he won’t be laughing when it’s us trying to run from a drone swarm in 20 years for stealing a rich cunt’s clean water.
Then we laughed at just how ridiculous that sounded.
I miss when it was funny 😭
I’m surprised there hasn’t been casual assassinations outside of war zones with them yet.
There is this YouTube short movie about a future like that. The tiny drone just flies into someone’s face with a small explosion to kill them.
Ha, they’d never do that…
btw, Have you noticed camo netting has gotten crazy expensive? Must just be inflation
Who gives a shit about nets those things have infrared heat detection.
That’s why you need to use a survival blanket as an inner layer to reflect the heat, some neutral-colored canvas as a middle-layer, and the camo netting as an outer layer. Preferably with a few inches of separation between each one.
Maybe add in some faraday fabric if you have anything that emits signals
And an SDR on a raspberry pi with some python libraries to scan for incoming threats.
It’s not perfect but it’s better than being a sitting duck
Emphasis on camo. They have some ir blocking.
Any tiny propellers that get snagged in nets.
And sometimes the bigger ones too:
Excellent point I hadn’t thought of that.
We’ll see these kinds of things in the next war. Russia and Ukraine would be there already if they had time to stockpile the drones rather than needing to deploy them as fast as they can be manufactured.
With a few years of peace to build a reserve, there will more than enough drones and cheap spring-assisted launchers to serve as a terrifying new arm of MAD.
I’m not sure. Wars are won by costing the enemy’s money these days. So they are using drones on infrastructure, becuase that costs more than soldiers.
Regardless of how wars are won, they are prevented by altering the risk picture for the enemy.
This is also why many smaller NATO states are scrambling to procure long-range missiles outside of US control. In a hybrid war with Russia, they would control the escalation ladder - I.e. be able to yeet some high explosives at powerplants and fuel depots - rather than relying on Washington to grant permission.
Ukraine has been doing similar with the flamingo and other cruise ‘missile drone’ projects. Iran as well - look at their response to US aggression.
The trajectory is clear, mass precision strike is cheap and corresponding defense is not. Having a stockpile of millions of flying problems for your enemy to consider is the best deterrent short of nuclear weapons.
The only way we can fight back is in tunnels. None of us know how to build tunnels.
You are being rescued, do not resist!
Welcome to ICE Rescue Center #7806
This is a kindness
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Isn’t that top left picture also showing a “Armed” tag right at the top‽
Silly billy, that just means it is armed to rescue you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
This is not a kindness
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wait what
…search and track you…
That’s definitely going to be used for autonomous drone warfare.
The best time to start trap/skeet and get good at it was years ago. The second best time is now.
That isn’t going to help you when 10 drones come at your location from different directions at 120 mph
Hmmm, no, that’s sporting clays.
Get to the Choppa!
Good use: Following influencers, filming a hike ride/run, or finding and sticking with a lost hiker.
Bad use: Replace “follow” with any other verb.
Did they name it the Torment Nexus yet?
We need to start a Lemmy community collecting stories like this that chronicle the building of Skynet for future generations to know how it happened.
What future generations?
we need a community helping to build SkyNet
