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>goes outside
>flips visor up
>too fast, too bright, overwhelmed
>face goes blank
>"GRMLN®" scrolls down her face until reaching the center, a two-tone chime is heard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2Q...
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Spending bills *HAVE* to pass.
"Oh, you don't like that part somebody scribbled in at 2AM when everybody else was at home asleep? Well, you don't HAVE to vote on this bill, but think of what your voter-base will think if you delay the budget. Oh, what to do. :)"
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And who palled around with the Clintons an awful lot in those days?
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
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The problem is, a lot of them, much like the chuds who suddenly realized The Boyz was making fun of them, and what Machine exactly They were Raging Against, didn't realize he was joking.
I'm talking the sort of people who see "The Purge" and say "That's awesome, I wish we had a Purge!"
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The more obnoxious the ad, the more likely I am to ignore their products.
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He knows there are SO many people who DON'T like him, so of course he's going to use any excuse he can conjure to shut them down.
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So at first, I had no idea what you were talking about.
So I looked it up.
These people are not well.
Like you could *almost* hand-wave it if they were satire, ala Colbert Report, but they try so hard for people to take them seriously.
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Pretty much this.
As impressed as I've been by the fairly rapid progress in regards to machines like Atlas and Figure, any time people start talking about "in-home trials by the end of 2025!" I just kinda...
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www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
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Not to discredit you correcting the machine, I've had to do that repeatedly on my own while toying with it.
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AI is surprisingly malleable.
Just tinkering with local instances of Deepseekr-1, and it's easy to get it to go from "I am not self-aware" to "It's possible I might be..." just by asking it the right questions, mostly, I suspect, because they're built to be as non-confrontational as possible.
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I should add that even the 32b model, which is the largest I can run on my 2700x/1080Ti system and produces a whopping 0.45t/s, makes stuff up, hallucinates, and even forgets things you've just corrected it on.
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I've tinkered a little with locally run instances of Deepseekr-1 at 7b and 8b parameters, and yeah, "not great" is an understatement. :V
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I've always wanted to strap a lying, electric goblin to my face.
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"If I lose this election to Joe Biden, you'll never see me again!" is one of the biggest/worst lies he's ever told.
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I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, then in the 6th grade I found out there's a height limit and I exceeded it.
Too tall to go to space, too clumsy and awkward for basketball. Feels bad, man. :V
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We're talking about a political party that went from "Obama is weak because he was too soft on Putin!" to "gee gaiz why is every1 so mean 2 Putin? :'(" in an awful damn hurry.
With followers who believe Covid is a Chinese bio-weapon "easily cured" with commonly-available horse de-wormer.
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"Grrr, I knew it! The landscapers were Antifa all along!"
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Except there are multiple reports of them doing just that during SWAT raids.
They are both incendiary devices. That means they burn/get hot. Anything that burns/gets hot has the potential to start a fire.
Flashbangs in particular use magnesium in the igniter, which can be blown off and retain heat.
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There was the lady that got shot in the neck.
And wouldn't you know it, out of all the people who were there, forcing their way into that building, she was the only one who was a true MAGA patriot and not some ANTIFA provacateur like all the rest of them? That's the fairy tale, anyway.
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Oh, are they back in the air again? One of them had a "fucky-wucky :3c" out by Melrose, NM some months or so ago and they grounded them, last I heard.
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youtu.be/zvciJEs_yRU
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Me, every time I watch a maker Youtuber who does an ad segment that mentions "AI":
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This is true to an extent.
However, having had experience in dealing with people who felt the urge to be needlessly antagonistic towards me, I've learned that what's also true is if said asshole keeps it up, a pop in the mouth gets their attention *REAL* quick.
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Just the last two words of that sentence made me feel an instant surge of nausea. Bravo.
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...That's just an Iswolf, innit?
...An Arewolf?
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I've not seen all of Miyazaki's films, but so far, I've yet to see one I didn't like. The man is a wizard.
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My original statement is less a comment on "wow look at how shit this robot is" and more "corporations are shitters for drooling at these demonstrations".
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Combine that with being expected to work as fast as they believe physics will allow, regardless of circumstances, and no shit people are getting burned out on what *should* otherwise be a trivial task.
So unless these robots really start to pick up the pace, I still find it funny. :V
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Most of the major problems that make people sick of jobs like this won't go away with robot workers. I'm talking:
Poor management
Lack of proper maintenance
Under-hiring/under-preparing
etc.
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24/7 operations already happen with sorting operations like this AFAIK. Unless they start to pick up the pace beyond what I can best describe as "awkward tele-operation" speeds from the demos, there's only so many chargers and so many robots you can throw at a warehouse before it runs out of space.
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"I'll show you! When the chips are down, these... These 'civilized' people? They'll eat each other!"
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It's almost funny how so many are eager for these robots to become part of their workforce when, let's be honest, if any of us worked even 10-20 times as fast as Figure is here, we'd be fired for "failing to meet minimum job requirements".
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"I'll show you! When the chips are down, these... These 'civilized' people? They'll eat each other!"
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...Are already endangered in modern society.
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Criminal orgs the world over need to work harder to reclaim "goon".
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Whoop, and, dare I say, tee-doo.
I wish we could all stop giving that pin-head the attention he's so desperate for.
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Tragically, the "easiest possible thing available" ATM is a massively bloated, gargantuan, cloud-based "Yes Man" that will crap out pictures mostly resembling what you're asking for in the hopes that somebody doesn't notice the defects and will pay $15 for it so you can make $0.45 on Amazon.
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She's a senior citizen with MS and, like many people her age in the US, is flat broke. So to her, much like the blue-haired internet pioneers before her who would take internet surveys all day for dollars a week, all she feels she can do to make extra cash is the easiest possible thing available.
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Before this, it was t-spring sort of stuff with her. Before that, it was drop-shipping. She tried SO hard to convince me to get in on the drop-shipping thing, and I explained to her why it made no real sense at the end of the day, and thankfully, she at least dropped THAT one. And in hindsight... :V
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It doesn't matter how many times I show her how janky it looks, it doesn't matter how much I explain how many people don't/won't pay for lazy, it doesn't matter if I explain the legality/morality of the entire thing. It's "the easy solution to make a buck", so she's desperately sticking with it.
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Even now, my great-aunt, who at one point was convinced she could make and sell coloring books on Amazon simply by using clipart she can download from the internet, is now convinced she can use AI to make the clipart instead, because she has "mentors" to show her "how easy it is".