r/boringdystopia • u/Cowicidal • 3d ago
Technology Impact 📱 Corporate murder machines. Happy holidays.
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u/Impossible_Jaguar200 3d ago
Oh god the wheelies from wizard of oz 2 are real!
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u/Witty_biped 1d ago
Came to see if any one else has thought of this seeing that thing. Core childhood fear unlocked
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u/Old-Consequence1735 3d ago
There is a 99.995% chance there is one of those back at the lab with a weapon mounted on it
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
Variations of them are already out in the battlefield as we speak.
And that's just what is being reported publicly.
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u/OrangeESP32x99 2d ago
This is an interesting article. Appreciate you sharing.
Ukraine feels like the testing ground for new forms of warfare. Of course it’s a proxy war, but it feels like even more than that.
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u/No-Key1904 3d ago
I wonder how well it would handle a 12 gauge slug
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u/7evenate9ine 3d ago
Forward facing profile is very small, and it's coming at you at 30 MPH.
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u/afternever 3d ago
And that's when the attack comes-- not from the front, but from the side, from the other two you didn't even know were there
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u/12thandvineisnomore 3d ago
I’ll get my dna kit together and start production. You got the amber??
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u/No-Key1904 3d ago
So a semi-automatic would probably be a better idea than a pump action, gotcha...
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u/7evenate9ine 3d ago
You will need to slow them down at a range. Keep in mind they will be shooting at you too. That sequence with the 200lbs weights is supposed to simulate a... a care package.
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u/SerdanKK 3d ago
I do wonder how they'll handle recoil.
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u/7evenate9ine 3d ago
gyros for motion compensation.
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u/SmallRedBird 1d ago
You don't necessarily even need that. Many guns already compensate for barrel rise through venting gasses in the right directions, either through nature of their gas system and/or through muzzle devices
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u/7evenate9ine 1d ago
I was referring to how they will be able to stay on target, while they come driving over a hill. They will still be able to keep you centered even on bumpy and uneven terrain, while driving at 30MPH. Humans can not do this... Anyway, we agree... They will be able to shoot you at a distance. Gyros, compensators, or otherwise.
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u/BassoeG 3d ago
What're they using to navigate? By which I mean, will spray paint covering their cameras cripple them?
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u/7evenate9ine 3d ago edited 3d ago
Seems to be optical but they might be syncronized via satellite or mesh network. What one sees, they all see. And there will likely be spotters at a distance.
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u/parkerm1408 3d ago
If you had to use a shotgun I'd just go with 00 or 000 3" shells with a a choke that reduces your pattern spread a bit.
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u/Dimitar_Todarchev 3d ago
There won't be just one of them. There will be a swarm. And in the air as well.
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u/starspider 2d ago
Nah, buckshot would fuck the joints on that thing right to hell and back.
I bet birdshot could.
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
You'd be too busy taking cover from these things:
And then these fast-moving wheeled monkeys could come charging into your position from your flanks while you hunker down from the onslaught of the flying monkey drones buzzing in the air above you.
A fearless, mechanical hell on earth from all sides.
But, I also hear they'll be great at assisting the rescue of wayward hikers. So there's that.
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u/Dimitar_Todarchev 3d ago
I'd rather not fight them, I'd rather hack them and turn them on whoever sent them.
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u/Azalith 3d ago
The problem is often not the technology itself. The problem is the reining culture means that technology is increasingly applied to make lives worse due to the emphasis on exploitation. Contrast this with the past where technology was associated with progress and the assumption that change would lead to better standards of living.
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u/commanderfish 3d ago
When was this golden age? I feel like people say these things and completely ignore a giant amount of exploitation occuring
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u/Azalith 3d ago
I haven't suggested a golden age or that there hasnt been past exploitation. But there is more economic inequality over the last century for example
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u/commanderfish 3d ago
You would be completely wrong about that, before democracy the middle class really didn't exist. Before that we had royalty and everyone else lived in the gutter. Mass amounts of people died from starvation and disease, those groups couldn't tell their experiences because they couldn't read or write, so nearly all of written history besides maybe the last 150 years was entirely controlled by the extremely wealthy.
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u/12thandvineisnomore 3d ago
You’re not entirely wrong, but your lack of knowledge of the history of worker exploitation and the industrial age is evident. No offense. Check out the Luddites.
What’s happening isn’t new. But using a robot army to subjugate is. Before you had to stir up racism and class hate to get one group of soldiers to terrorize another group. Soon you won’t need to bother. You just send out the robot dogs, with no risk of empathy and emotion getting in the way.
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u/Sqwirl 3d ago
Medieval peasants literally had more days off than the average American today
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u/commanderfish 3d ago
That's a huge fallacy, in medieval times basically every peasant was a farmer to support their own families. If you knew anything about livestock and farming, that is nearly a 24/7 job. Then besides that activity to just live they probably had many other hustles to support their families. Then you probably sent your kids to work in a mine somewhere if they weren't needed for labor on the farm
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u/Dan6erbond2 2d ago
Also people don't realize that when comparing to medieval times half of us wouldn't even be alive or capable of surviving.
Infant death rates were insanely high, mothers routinely died during birth, we were breathing in terrible chemicals and eating lead not to mention the sewers.
I'd like to see a Redditor spend one day in the middle ages and still make a claim like that.
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u/SexThrowaway1126 3d ago
They’ll be able to find so many lost hikers with those things. I hear they’ll be deploying them to find lost hikers in Palestine soon
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u/BurlHimself 3d ago edited 2d ago
What if you threw a net on it; tangle it up.
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
It would burn out your eyeballs with lasers before you even reached towards it, much less block your face with your hands, and even much less throw anything towards it.
Who am I kidding? It would have obliterated you with machine-gun fire before any of that.
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u/BurlHimself 2d ago edited 2d ago
What about poles in the ground every two feet or so? Or a wall (I see it jump down, but not up one). I’m just thinking of ways to spend my Mega Millions winnings…after buying ten of these, of course…
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u/Cowicidal 2d ago
after buying ten of these
I see your ten — and raise you one the size of a horse.
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u/IvardLongview 2d ago
Would you rather be protected by 1 horse sized robot or 100 robot sized horses?
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u/yankmyutters2 3d ago
My opinion changed drastically when I learned it could be mounted
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u/PauL__McShARtneY 2d ago
My opinion changed when I saw the smugness chip installed in these new models.
This thing acts like it just fingerbanged it's first emo chick behind the mall, made it's friends smell it's 'fingers', then headed to the skate park/parkour range to get some 'sick' air time after a few bong rips.
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u/Cowicidal 2d ago edited 2d ago
Would imagine these could be absolutely liberating for people with disabilities to go out in the wilderness, mountain bike trails, skateparks, etc. as well as pull injured people to safety, etc.
Of course, in our capitalist hellscape dystopia they'll be used for disabled vets who've had their limbs blown/ripped off by other battle robots so they can go back out into combat on these type of things to settle the score with the enemy.
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u/NiobiumThorn 3d ago
...it's just. Not ok. There's some kinda innate response deep in my brain that distrusts this creature of steel and plastic. The fact it exists is nightmarish.
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
That's called being a luddite.
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u/SteviaCannonball9117 3d ago
Luddites were labeled that by capitalists.
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Hahaha
I'm not a capitalist. But being afraid of technology is fucking stupid. Being against capitalism is not the same as being against technological advancement.
Technology advances better, in a more responsible and sustainable way, in systems that aren't designed around the stupid idea of perpetual growth.
This stupid equivalency that wanting technology to continue advancing somehow also means that capitalism is necessary, is entirely based on a complete misunderstanding of what technology is and why it continuously changes. Technology is a part of what defines humanity, the only reason humans are even able to live as we do now is because we started adapting tool use, and that technological adaptation is what defines our species. But capitalism is not the system that best supports humanity using technology to benefit ourselves and the world at large.
I'm sure you were just trying to throw some sort of gotcha or whatever, but this is actually an important moral distinction. Capitalism demands cutting corners, making things less safe so that profits can be maximized, that leads to worse technology. Capitalism is also why we have people suggesting that vaccines are bad.
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u/NiobiumThorn 2d ago
No fr tho you're absolutely right. I just don't wanna get gunned down by a robot dog. But ngl it has the same feel as like, police dogs.
I'd love it if instead this was used for humanitarian purposes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the tech itself, but the billionares who buy these things? Not trustworthy
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Why would technology and capitalism be intertwined when countries that don't engage in exploitative late stage capitalism still have contributed to technological advancements?
Literal space flight was achieved under a communist state. The idea that technology is intertwined with capitalism is only suggested because no other economic system currently exists. Every country that was under a system other than capitalism, now engages in capitalism.
Saying that technological advancement can only happen under capitalism is literally a pro capitalism propaganda talking point. Suggesting that any other economic system would have to be anti-technology is just the kind of bullshit that capitalists would put on a poster to dissuade people from considering any other economic system.
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
Why would technology and capitalism be intertwined
Money. Next question?
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
What would the ideal world look like to you then? Everyone goes back to stone age technology and we all die of fucking typhoid at 32? What exactly do you want for the future of humanity? Seriously?
We both agree that capitalism is bad, and inherently exploitative, but the problem is, if all technology is inherently evil because it is a byproduct of the exploitation of capitalism, and you think that under any other kind of system then technology would simply stop progressing, then we would all have shit quality of life and die at a young age. There would be no indoor plumbing, no air conditioning, no food preservation, no medical advancement.
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u/anon1982012 3d ago
The problem with subjugating the general population has always been the will of your average soldier/general to inflict it upon their friends, family etc. I'd say we're about 10 years from removing that from the loop, and whoever is in power when all the piece's fall into place (Most likely Musk and his Ilk) will be able to do anything they want.
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u/peterthooper 3d ago
All it lacks is an organic material refueling capability (‘food’ ingestion) in order to keep going indefinitely.
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u/mdizzle767 3d ago
It’s like the wheelers from Return to Oz and then if anyone remembered Screamers!?!? Fuck that.
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u/PlantsNCaterpillars 2d ago
This is what I imagined the Mechanical Hounds from Fahrenheit 451 looking like.
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u/HypnotizeThunder 2d ago
Is this cgi or video?
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u/milky_nem 2d ago
that’s what i’m wondering. looks like a render composited against real footage
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u/luvmuchine56 3d ago
This one isn't made by boston dynamics, and Unitree doesn't have any military contracts. They make machines for the civilian sector. It is a creepy little thing when they make it stand on two wheels, though.
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Love that people are just ignoring you because it doesn't fit the idea of some dystopian future where robot dogs slaughter millions, or whatever work of fiction people in this thread are daydreaming about.
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u/luvmuchine56 3d ago
People are gonna hear what they wanna hear
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
The part about this sub that frustrates me the most, is the fact that technology like this can actually be wildly helpful for normal everyday people.
Even on this supposed doomsday when some government or corporate entity is rounding people up or whatever, if resistance groups have technology like drones and shit, it helps even the playing field. Just look at the crazy tech that Ukraine has used against Russia. Drones and robots have helped them so much they've held back an overwhelming force.
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
wildly helpful
You're incredibly naive.
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Really? I can't even tell what you believe based on what you've said. Do you think technology is inherently bad? In which case, are vaccines bad? What about insulin? What about pacemakers? Artificial limbs? Are medical diagnostic technologies bad?
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
So you think all technology is bad?
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u/Cowicidal 3d ago
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Nope, I was asking you a question because I couldn't even tell what you consider to be acceptable technology. You chose to ignore that question and just say "Really."
How else am I supposed to take that response other than you saying "Yes, really, all those medical things are bad in my opinion."?
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u/luvmuchine56 3d ago
Yeah, but that doesn't get them fake internet points that don't mean anything.
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u/Mastashake714 3d ago
Damn made me feel like I was watching a Jaime Thomas zero skate board session ...
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u/VladTepesDraculea 3d ago
It's a robot handling terrain, where's the murder part? Are these being sold and modified to armies?
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u/clockwerxs 2d ago
How long before it has gun mounted to it doing 360 no scopes?
Imagine meeting your creator explaining how you got got by a kick flipping robot gun dog
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u/Few-Anywhere-7189 2d ago
It has become apparent that a 10 round semi automatic shotgun anti-robot build would be a good idea
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u/MutedBrilliant1593 2d ago
That thing will elegantly dance over your worthless meat bag corpse. Yay...🫤
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u/Fickle-Classroom-277 1d ago
Think of all the actual good you could do with something like this.then remember that this will be used EXCLUSIVELY to harass and kill people
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u/DisorientedPanda 3d ago
*please do not imitate dangerous actions
Damn was just about to take my robot wheeled dog out for a spin but I guess i won’t
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Sometimes this sub is so dumb. Oh no, robot with wheels, so scary. You realize flying drones can already be used to kill people en masse, and they're far less likely for some redneck in Oklahoma to shoot down than a robot on wheels, right? People assume these robots will be used to crush dissenters or whatever, but why would any organization use a robot that can be hit with a car, when they can just use a drone that stays in the air and wipes out city centers from 300 feet up?
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u/Specialist-Ad7393 3d ago
It's cool, but the reality is weapon wise it can't be much different than a drone. It's not going to be able to operate a turret
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
It's worse than a drone. A target on the ground is easier for people to break. No one is going to use these instead of flying drones.
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u/Johnny_ac3s 3d ago
Why are these a thing if we have fully capable flying drones?
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u/Dimitar_Todarchev 3d ago
Well, we've kept the tanks and APCs and stuff long after we had jet fighters. We like to control the land, sea and air. And space, cyberspace, the 10th dimension...
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u/VanityOfEliCLee 3d ago
Because these aren't made for military contracts. This isn't a weapon. No government or corporate overlord is going to use these on civilians or in war. Flying drones are way more efficient and harder for people to shoot down, so they're a safer investment, and the technology that every country, militia, and private army already uses for warfare.
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