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A comment on 100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013).

Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by htjatg on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:05AM (#42812323)
Many here say that a political revolution will follow. That is possible, but the oligarchs could equip a foreign legion with no cultural affinity towards the population.

Or those that plunder Tolkien for their company names will succeed in their Skynet endeavors. Anduril currently seems like a joke, hopefully it stays that way. On the other hand, the satellite network required for coordinating Skynet is already operational.

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by whamlastxmas on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:48AM (#42813488)
Anduril just secured like 8 billion in funding for their giant manufacturing campus. And Palmer seems perfectly capable.

Hopefully we can collectively ban robots for anything regarding policing, though we unfortunately do already use them on humans in SWAT circumstances.

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