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Re:Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinfor... by Teever on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:20AM (#35811522)
Dick also wrote the fantastic short story 'Second Variety'[0] which has a similar theme, but involves autonomous, self-replicating robots that serve as a sort of intelligent mine field that separates warring factions on a the moon or an alien planet in the 1995 movie with the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety

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Re:Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinfor... by actionfromafar on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:34AM (#35812712)
That movie is very underappreciated and gets more salient over time.
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Re:Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinfor... by stevenwoo on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:14AM (#35816667)
I love this story and when I first read it I kept thinking - this is the inspiration for Terminator 1/2, then get to furious web searching after finishing it and find out the intro/setting was used for a different movie and Harlan Ellison's supposed connection to Terminator seems much more tenuous than PKD and Second Variety.
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