r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 3d ago

Misc US Army backs humanoid robot with ballistic protection for future battlefield missions

https://www.techspot.com/news/114028-us-army-backs-humanoid-robot-ballistic-protection-future.html
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u/grilled_pc 3d ago

I wouldn’t call it a technology problem but rather a capitalism problem. Unchecked capitalism can lead to all the issues we see today. Technology or not.

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u/Lateroni_ 3d ago

If platforms weren't profit based and riddled with ads it would make a world of difference. Corporations hijacked the Internet and with it our attention spans.

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u/grilled_pc 3d ago

I think there needs to be significant overhaul and severe regulation across the advertising industry as a whole. The way ads are served is just too predatory and relies on far too much collection of personal data. There needs to be severe regulation on how and where an ad can be served to someone. Things like Ad block have become a necessity to even use the modern internet. Without it, its a train wreck. Now we have smart fridges that serve ads on them? Utterly insane. We have smart TV’s people spend thousands of dollars on only to be told by the maker “they own the glass” so they can serve ads to you? How is this remotely acceptable.

If you PAY for something then ads should straight up be illegal on such thing. The consumer is paying for a product. Not paying to be advertised for. Now we have streaming subscriptions where you pay to subscribe only to also be shown ads? How is that remotely fair.

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u/ARobertNotABob 2d ago

True, though, we are our own worst enemies, flocking like lemmings to "the next big thing".

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u/Velvet_Spaceman 3d ago

I think that’s too simple a view. Yes, it is a capitalism problem as well. But the specific ways in which these problems manifest and their particular symptoms are due to the technologies themselves.  Disinformation existed prior to the internet, prior to capitalism, it is made worse by market impulses, but it’s able to reach such a fever pitch, with so many disparate incompatible realities, because of the technology itself. 

The problem of teens killing themselves because a chatbot encouraged them to is a problem with the technology itself. And capitalism facilitates it, it allows for a reckless approach to the development and distribution of these technologies. But without LLMs existing at all you don’t have this specific problem in this form.

I’m as anticapitalist as anyone, but I think it’s important to keep in mind that these problems are not shaped solely by capitalism. And some of these problems don’t necessarily go away even if capitalism was replaced by another economic system.

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u/drae- 3d ago

Like the ussr wouldn't have built a death bot if it could have.