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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

"Do no Evil" to "Do more drone strikes".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Man. Gotta love tech bros.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Holy shit this is a war crime just from the headline

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

~~Do no evil~~

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Someone needs to teach a bunch of wild birds to attack drones.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

next advance in tech : drone jammers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

They already exist.

Which is why the next drone advancement is in AI that can operate independently from a lost connection to the operator.

What we need is kamikaze kamikaze drones that fly into incoming drones and blow them up before they hit their target.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

To anyone that thought this scifi vid was just fiction a few years ago: https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg

I’ve been worried about this for a decade+. :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Came to the comments to post this video. You beat me to it; well done!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Interesting video. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Super. 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is his startup really revolutionizing warfare if the thing his startup is working on is already being used in a war?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are working on the next generation.

Probably an automated swarm tightly connected in a mesh network with either charging station they can fly to or mounted solar panels. Most will stay dormant, when one of the patrol drones spots an enemy, it will send a couple of the smaller kill drones to its location.

I'm guessing we might see some new camo roll out with a QR like codes embedded in them. That or maybe they will constantly blink ir lights using a code they change every week or so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry, it'll have AI and blockchain to capture those sweet sweet funding dollars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

My wife bought fireplace logs marketed as "Quantum". They're just a little bigger than the standard one offered.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Damn! I missed this one. That'll easily add $1b in capital

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

War Drone with micro-transactions in shitcoin. Yay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I was just reminded how the big reveal is the same as the surge. Corporate big bad was the true villain all along, even though they were already dead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I see we've moved on from the 'Don't be evil' era.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Honestly this seems less evil than a lot of stuff Google itself does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

From “Don’t be evil” to “Maybe just a little evil”, and now to “Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb”.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That is in the imperative mood. So he was telling other people to not be evil. He never said he shouldn't be evil.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

And now he has the kamikaze drones to back up his demands