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This reminds me of the movie Edge of Tomorrow where the main character decides he doesn't want to fight the aliens today and instead goes into town to get a dri
by narrator 4mo ago
This reminds me of the movie Edge of Tomorrow where the main character decides he doesn't want to fight the aliens today and instead goes into town to get a drink at the pub. The aliens still get him.
Robots and stuff are going to start appearing everywhere soon. He's not going to like that. Hoodlums are probably going to start burglarizing his house with their robot accomplices. Then he won't be able to go outside because he doesn't have a robot bodyguard. His UBI would have paid him to stay inside and stare at the wall, but he won't sign up for that cause it requires a smartphone and an identity implant. Probably wind up homeless with a handwritten sign, "Destroy All Clankers! Anything (without an embedded microchip) helps."
- edgarvaldes 4mo agoSo exactly as we "modern" people are to the Amish, yet the Amish persist in its way of life.
- reactordev 4mo agoWe have a choice right now on whether that world exists or not
- georgeburdell 4mo agoExactly. People make this technology with impunity. If they felt repercussions for working with the “bad guys”, it would give them pause before accepting a job with Flock, Andruil, Anthropic, etc.
- lou1306 4mo agoIf things get as much as 10% as chaotic as you predict, there will be massive turmoil and the "Destroy all Clankers" party will actually be the one in charge.
- narrator 4mo agoYeah, except we'll be a colony of China and those T800s will be on every street corner cause we didn't want to build datacenters and couldn't find a place to do yucky unaesthetically pleasing stuff like refining rare earth minerals and other primary industries anywhere that wasn't China.
- lurk2 4mo agoThose industries have been reshoring for more than 5 years.
- Earw0rm 4mo agoWhat's worth stealing, to a dude with a robot? Chances are, whatever it is won't be found in a regular residential property.
- mcmcmc 4mo agoA cheap drone makes casing burglary targets much easier
- generic92034 4mo agoWait till there are organ harvesting bots. Only half joking, I am afraid.
- drakythe 4mo agoWhat a wild dystopic vision of the future you have.
- abdulhaq 4mo agoI'm with the Tal Shiar on this one
- tilltheend 4mo agoViolence is always an option. In many cases, it's the only real option.
- Hnrobert42 4mo agoFunny you should mention robots burglars. I just read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317093
- thomastraum 4mo agoTa da, this is the kind of future that will become the actual one, to everyone's surprise in the comment section.
- micromacrofoot 4mo agoburglars generally don't need technology and this likely won't change soon with tracking in laptops/phones/airtags/etc it's more likely to be the enemy than the tool or even the object of acquisition even in 2026 the most sophisticated stuff we get are wifi jammers and keyfob intercepts and that's still like the top <1% of sophistication, most of petty theft is all the classic smash and grab because desperate people don't have the bandwidth for sophistication relevant: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/ I'm sure we'll get hackers trying to hack your home assistant bot to steal your credit card numbers though
- HeyLaughingBoy 4mo ago"Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future."