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...of SCIENCE! posted:Spending billions on a robot police officer to catch DUIs (which, judging by a few seconds of footage in the commercial, is something that happens in the actual movie) instead of on a functional public transportation system so people don't have to drive after they drink is pretty Robocop. Yeah, it's easy to read these ads as satirical, with the joke at the expense of their police sponsors.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I just like that it was posted the day after this film came out, speaking to the exact premise of the film. He even cites Jackie Earle Haley's android handler. I do buy the more likely idea that it's just funding an engineer's pet project about quadruped stability and locomotion, and that DOD knows how to waste money like nobody's business. At the same time, though, the anthropomorphism is the point. There's no real reason to make a war robot resemble a living thing except to make it "friendlier". I think Dolan recognizes, and kind of says, that it's mostly a case of the DoD wasting money, but that's boring. Of course they waste money. What's interesting is what they're wasting it on; they know it probably won't go anywhere, but if it does, great. It's less "the US military is building anthropomorphic (or...caninomorphic, whatever) robots to colonize the Earth" than "if the US military could build anthropomorphic robots to colonize the Earth they totally would and they're not even ashamed of it."
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Elite posted:The question "What would a drone FEEL if it killed an innocent?" is never answered because the machines in this movie are perfect. They never harm an innocent, even when innocents jump into the middle of a gun battle to protect their 'guilty' friends. They just don't shoot/beat up/kill them, which makes it politically and socially easier to dominate them in all sorts of other ways, which is harmful.
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