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The best thing about Boston Dynamics is that their robots don't work. Maybe spot-mini will but their track record is terrible and I'm thankful for it. I get the
by iandanforth 9y ago
The best thing about Boston Dynamics is that their robots don't work. Maybe spot-mini will but their track record is terrible and I'm thankful for it. I get the distinct impression that these self described 'badboys' would happily hand over a fully functional android to the military complete with gun mounts. There are a lot of great robotics companies to work for that are also deeply principled about doing good, this is not one of them.
- thematt 9y agoWhy do you say they don't work? The videos seem impressive.
- hitekker 9y agoThe GP works at an indirect competitor to Boston Dynamics. Since the invective lacks suevidence, we can assume it is based upon resentment and/or jealousy, i.e., “how dare their unweaponized, prototype tech be light-years ahead of our own tech! They’re unprincipled!”
- richard___ 9y agoExamples of such companies?
- abrichr 9y agoKindred.ai
- jlebrech 9y agowhat's evil about the military?
- GenericsMotors 9y agoThere's definitely something evil (extremely unethical?) about handing the decision/burden to take someone's life to machines. Also, I don't think your remark is a fair representation of the parent comment.
- iandanforth 9y agoNo no, they're right, the US military is evil. Your statement is also true though.
- wmeredith 9y ago“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron” -Dwight D. Eisenhower https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoPlease see: past 15 years of nonstop war and corruption that hasn't done any good for anyone.
- lesss365 9y agoWeren't they getting funds from DARPA?