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i mean i know the reality is they're deranged marketing types or whatever but i like the image of a dude that wears a suit and tie at home all the time inviting the robot to watch him and his friends play settlers of catan
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BMan posted:fully diagonalized and loving it cantorposting on reals
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rotor posted:indeed https://twitter.com/agleader/status/1635690151304388608 Disgruntled Bovine posted:Plugged the levee with my Chevy cus the levee weren't dry.
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ADINSX posted:Built ford trough lol
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ADINSX posted:Built ford trough
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:from another thread from way back: shamefully I actually have something like this in my house …it’s called a scuttle robot. it’s a demonstrator for running ROS on embedded boards (eg a rpi) and sensors (stereo vision or lidar).
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amazon is proud to announce the upskirt 2 million, an automated robot specifically designed for livestreaming compromising video of the nether regions of everyone in your home to be stored in perpetuity on amazon servers it can do lots of useful things like
that's it, actually all yours for a mere thousand dollars
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hobbesmaster posted:shamefully I actually have something like this in my house thats not what the amazon thing was though
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Shame Boy posted:i mean i know the reality is they're deranged marketing types or whatever but i like the image of a dude that wears a suit and tie at home all the time inviting the robot to watch him and his friends play settlers of catan 
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Beeftweeter posted:thats not what the amazon thing was though yes, it’s one of those after some industrial design and marketing coops spent a couple terms on it.
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i just watched the video and i still cant tell what its for lol @ calling it a "day one edition" though. that guy sounded like he was about to cry the entire time
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good thing astro has a periscope to check if my oven is on, but no opposable thumbs to grab the knob and turn it off
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Shame Boy posted:i'd like to think that the people that come up with these bizarre spy devices are just the most chaste, boring human beings imaginable, so the thought doesn't even cross their mind that there's things people do that they might not want constantly recorded the people who come up with the idea are manchildren who miss mommy doing everything for them and want Rosie from The Jetsons as a replacement (or whatever the modern equivalent is). they aren't worried about being spied on at home because they spend 14hrs a day at the tech major's campus then code at home for 2hrs. the managers and executives that green light it are the sociopaths.
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ADINSX posted:Built ford trough
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Shifty Pony posted:the people who come up with the idea are manchildren who miss mommy doing everything for them and want Rosie from The Jetsons as a replacement (or whatever the modern equivalent is). they aren't worried about being spied on at home because they spend 14hrs a day at the tech major's campus then code at home for 2hrs. I would pay a lot for Rosie the robot to clean my house, bathrooms, and other stuff, tho, instead of me.
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4lokos basilisk posted:a figure of speech i use in my native language which means uhh you scan/read the text really quickly. diagonal as in read the first and last words of the paragraph so the direction is not line by line but in a diagonal that goes to the right and to the bottom im learning new exotic idioms!
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quote:Plugged the levee with my Chevy cus the levee weren't dry. lol ADINSX posted:Built ford trough lol
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Shifty Pony posted:the people who come up with the idea are manchildren who miss mommy doing everything for them and want Rosie from The Jetsons as a replacement (or whatever the modern equivalent is). you've described all labor-saving devices, except you've done it in the most snide and derisive way possible. like, you aren't _wrong_ about people wanting to have everything taken care of for them, but...that's pretty much all of humanity, and always has been. i'm imagining you yelling at the 'manchildren' buying premade food in ancient rome
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in the context and intent of this thread, thats a big leap from "tool that saves effort" to "robot that spies on you"
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there's also an argument [and plenty of anecdotal evidence from the wealthy] that being freed from the basic "labor" to keep your life going turns you into an irredeemable shitlord
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Shame Boy posted:i mean i know the reality is they're deranged marketing types or whatever but i like the image of a dude that wears a suit and tie at home all the time inviting the robot to watch him and his friends play settlers of catan I read some quote that pointed out that no one wants to be the guy in the meeting pointing out all the sick poo poo that could happen with tech. If I recall the article was about Apple air play and how people kept accidentally streaming porn to the living room tv, stuff like that. PMs don’t wanna hear about sad or perverse use cases they only want to imagine happy consumers using whatever to talk to friends. Another example of a “why didn’t they think of that use case”: a this day in history feature showing you pictures of children that have passed away, or exes, etc etc
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That being said I can’t imagine the “good” usecase for spybot
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what if you want to surveil your family 24/7? like, people put security cameras inside their own homes, intentionally and voluntarily, so obviously this market exists somehow
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infernal machines posted:what if you want to surveil your family 24/7? then implant a tracking chip in them like a normal overbearing sociopath
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ADINSX posted:That being said I can’t imagine the “good” usecase for spybot yeah that's why it's funny. most of the other examples had legit use cases but also very bad use cases that the creators didn't consider. maybe they were sociopaths who didn't care, but it's also plausible they just weren't worldly or depraved enough to think of them not so with the robot. 100% of its functionality is sending random pictures of your house to amazon. it never did anything else that might make that worthwhile. that was the entire concept from start to finish at least the facebook portal also did video chat
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ADINSX posted:I read some quote that pointed out that no one wants to be the guy in the meeting pointing out all the sick poo poo that could happen with tech. If I recall the article was about Apple air play and how people kept accidentally streaming porn to the living room tv, stuff like that. I've read in a couple places that essentially the more privileged the person the more likely they are to only consider optimist use cases. Turns out women and minorities are seemingly more sensitive to negarive externalities or actual malicious use.
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ADINSX posted:Another example of a “why didn’t they think of that use case”: a this day in history feature showing you pictures of children that have passed away, or exes, etc etc google contacts lets you put in anniversaries of any kind you want to remember for people and put a custom label on them, but then shows them with a birthday cake in google calendar so now i have this in my calendar:  cool, cool.
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ADINSX posted:I read some quote that pointed out that no one wants to be the guy in the meeting pointing out all the sick poo poo that could happen with tech. If I recall the article was about Apple air play and how people kept accidentally streaming porn to the living room tv, stuff like that. Shocked nagging wives: who is that and what is she doing? Innocent relaxation material streamers: n-n-no! Sicko apple engineers: yes! Ha ha ha! Yes!
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I slammed all my student photos into OneDrive and now it gives me a daily "remember this?" Where I and my friends are shitfaced and I duly send it to my friends from that era.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Shocked nagging wives: who is that and what is she doing? Hmm is the Statue of Liberty into it or shocked by it?
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ADINSX posted:Hmm is the Statue of Liberty into it or shocked by it? shocked, and its streaming to Some Gizmo
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rotor posted:shocked, and its streaming to Some Gizmo* * Latest Fad
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I think you're supposed to just order the robot around and, you know, admire its SLAM capabilities
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BMan posted:admire its SLAM capabilities
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actually y'know that episode of the x-files where mulder gets the smoking man's home address and he shows up and realizes there's nothing he can actually do to the guy to coerce The Truth out of him because he lives alone with no family or connections in a small apartment without even so much as a pet to act as a liability? that
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and yet I still felt bad for the guy’s scifi story being rewritten
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hobbesmaster posted:and yet I still felt bad for the guy’s scifi story being rewritten that is such a great episode, just far more somber than most so it doesn't make the same list
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:from another thread from way back: so it is a spook aibo?
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