• BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    Meanwhile our actual MIT engineer nerds are mostly doing crypto scams and trying to find ways to make people click on advertisements more frequently curious-marx

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        5 days ago

        To be fair though only some are ok with Palantir. They made some useful generic developer tools and quite a few refused to use them.

        And there is a lot of free software ethos was born out of MIT. Free as in libre, not free as in beer. This may all have been a mistake, but quite a few people in our are ok.

      • WoodScientist [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        5 days ago

        They’ll strap guns to the robots, legally declare the robots to be police officers, and allow the robots to use lethal force to defend themselves. We’ll have robot officers pulling people over in traffic stops, and they’ll be just as trigger happy as human officers. The robots will be programmed to screech, “I’m in fear for my life” as they take a human life.