oh hey isn't that the backstory to horizon zero dawn?
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"We finally invented the Torment Nexus from sci-fi classic Don't create the Torment Nexus "
Well, at least there isn't a narcissistic tech-billionaire around who doesn't care about human lives and is closely associated with the government.
Yeah! Thank god that isn't a thing! Also does anyone have the blueprints for tearblast arrows?
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What's really concerning is that I have no idea if this is satire.
I think this is actually a real thing, but from like 10 years ago.
edit, there was a DARPA project that created a robot that could consume biomass as fuel, its acronym is EATR. According to wikipedia, it could "only" consume certain types of vegetation. But in the initial proposal, the developers also proposed chicken fat. So honestly, this probably exists and there might be a version of it that can consume meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
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If you think about it, any diesel powered vehicle is a robot that eats organisms for fuel.
And more than likely most of us here are using thinking stones powered by electricity created by very large machines far away eating organisms for fuel. Not to mention heating, but not everyone lives where there's only two seasons; winter and July. (Actually I pay extra to have a 100% renewables contract I think but idk how well those work.)
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EAT THE RICH! wait, what…?!
Not like that!
There's a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)
I really like those games. I just don't want to be a character in them.
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus“
Bitch do you know what happens in Horizon where they make SELF REPLICATING SELF THINKING ROBOTS THAT CONSUME BIOMATTER AS FUEL
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Paging Elisabet Sobek!
the orphan crushing machine is complete
finally...
BLOOD IS FUEL
MANKIND IS DEAD
HELL IS FULL
CAPSLOCK IS STUCK
BABA IS YOU
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I read it as "robot that can eat orgasms for fuel. My version is better.
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I actually hope this is fake
Robot: please remain calm, I'm here to assist you.
Patient: you're choking me!
Robot: squeezes harder
Can't wait for the black mirror episode based on this, as if the dog robot wasn't terrifying enough.
It's literally the plot to Horizon Zero Dawn
Although several people in the replies have pointed out the actual truth behind this post, (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot)
I do think this qualifies as misinformation. Given what happened on most other social networks, I can't help feeling uneasy even though it's a stupid joke post.
Awww I wanted it to gurgle blood in its wood chipper/mouth/head removal proboscis while it giggled through its speakers and says I Bring You Love, you know to attract more fuel.
It's been a trying day.
"EXTERMINATE!"
Something something fuck Ted Faro
iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into 'it eats corpses'. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.
edit: here's a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.
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Screamers was about these war robots that became self aware and began killing not just because you were an enemy soldier but because they could use your body parts to lubricate their gears. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/
Written by Phillip K. Dick
Ooo, I think I've seen this one
I love how people think this is the robot apocalypse and not the robots that the wealthy already use to fuck us over
finally, a way to save on burial costs and diesel at the same time.
Zero dawn