supersquirrelDec 24

Ukraine’s Ground Robot Tore Through Russian Troops—So It’s Now Armed With a Grenade Launcher

https://sopuli.xyz/post/38602222

Ukraine’s Ground Robot Tore Through Russian Troops—So It’s Now Armed With a Grenade Launcher - Sopuli

> Ukraine is set to field its first officially codified domestically built grenade launcher armed ground robot, after the Ministry of Defense approved the Droid NW 40 robotic combat system for service with the country’s Defense Forces, developer DevDroid said on December 23.

Show threadEnderLawDec 24

  • A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  • A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

  • A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    • Show threadRailcar8095Dec 24

    There are loops. Killing a few Russian invaders will prevent many Ukrainian killings.

    There’s at least one story I can remember about that.

    Show threadNo_EponymDec 24
    Show threadlornosajDec 24
    Where’s this from?
    Show threadNo_EponymDec 24

    The Foundation adaptation on AppleTV. Where, famously, spoilers

    Tap for spoiler

    Demerzel, this robot in the gif, kills lots of people by exploring the loophole that let robots commit genocide in supposed compliance with the 3 laws.

    Show threadJumbieDec 25
    Holy shit. Random, I know but you just convinced me to check this out.
    Show threadngdev
    the show is solid
    Dec 25 at 3:25amWeb
    Show threadShortstackDec 25
    If you start on season 1, don’t let that dumpster fire dissuade you from the rest of the show. Once you get past that, the show is solid
    Show threadngdevDec 25
    the empire story line is basically what holds that season together imo
    Show threadgravitas_deficiencyDec 25
    Yeah the plot lines outside of that are kinda garbage. And I say that as a fan of the original books.
    Show threadngdevDec 25
    yeah anything non empire is kinda bad until this latest season. idk if they condensed a lot of shit from the books or what, i never read them
    Show threadgravitas_deficiencyDec 25

    It’s more that they sharply diverge from the core ethos of the books.

    Dumping the admittedly misogynistic bent of the source material was a great move (including switching the gender of one of the core protagonists). Pretty much every other change made around the foundation-centric plots was straight up poor show running and writing. It goes from high sci-fi to “just another future-y action show”. And many of the plot changes are just… completely nonsensical.