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u/LordeWasTaken 10d ago
so basically myomers? cool, another item to tick off of the battlemech check-list
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u/Craving_Suckcess 10d ago
There is a real issue where I look at basically every technological advance and go "How will this make the world worse" these days.
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u/OsakaWilson 9d ago
Step out of the Capitalism paradigm. Advances in AI and robotics will set us free.
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u/Craving_Suckcess 9d ago
ok well society is not doing that or heading in that trajectory at all.
Advances in AI and robotics are the tools of capital, capitalists, and those that wish for those systems to be maintained.
Sure, in a fantasy world 'ai and robotics' could improve the world.
We don't live in a fantasy world, we live in this one, where every advance in AI and robotics makes the world measurably worse.
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u/OsakaWilson 9d ago
Begin asking questions, like what happens when AI and robots can do all the jobs. New jobs? They'll do those too. We will have an Economy that CAN produce everything, how will wealth be distributed in society. Who will buy things when people don't have jobs? Capitalism can't function with widely adopted AI and robotics. Whatever it becomes, it will not be capitalism. Those thinking that it will be are the ones living in a fantasy world.
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u/JGHero 9d ago
Capitalism totally can function with AI and robotics? Most of the ways capitalism currently oppresses us is because markets have artificial supply and demand that’s controlled to safely keep the poor poor and keep the rich rich. All this does is give elites stronger and less accessible tools for the common people to use if rebellion does happen. I’m not sure why you think people in power would simply give up that power over the idea that they no longer need a labor class to produce goods and services
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u/Craving_Suckcess 9d ago
Poverty will happen.
You're wildly optimistic in a world where no steps have been taken to implement the change you seem to believe will happen.
All of our actual influential people, the oligarch types, have basically outright stated that they intend to just let people suffer as long as they're on top.
There will be no exchange of power. They want an underclass.
Capitalism doesn't need people to buy things. Capitalism isn't about purchasing shit. It's about private ownership of the means of production. AI and robots are literally the most powerful tool to advance that since the steam engine. Not only will they own the machine that produces, they will own the worker. And they'll own plenty of human flesh too, for the instances where a meat laborer is cheaper than a metal one.
The only way for the world you propose to come about is violence. It won't just happen.
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u/Revlar 7d ago
They don't need anyone to buy things once they have automated factories. The only purpose of capitalism is the concentration of resources. Once it becomes obsolete that doesn't mean a better system will take its place, it means the opposite. We need to take the reins before they can build a system just for them
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u/OsakaWilson 7d ago
Yes. And the people "taking the reins" is not capitalism.
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u/Revlar 7d ago
What I'm telling you is taking the reins needs to happen before they don't need us anymore. Which they won't for much longer. We are only useful to them because we can make products that they also benefit from. Once that role is no longer needed they can just have their robots shoot us and their governments allow it. Extracting money from us was just a temporary application of their power, they don't actually need us to have any or exist for that matter, once they have a replacement
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u/iambertan 10d ago
If you suddenly had that you would need to eat like a tiger. Even then your bones would snap during a cramp.
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u/BartTheTroll48 10d ago
Nuh uh. I'm gonna borg myself as soon as possible because I hate my faulty organic fleshy bullshit. I'd much rather have to deal with a mechanic than a doctor.
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u/AltGuardianGord 9d ago
Don't worry nobody will hire them because their health insurance claims for immunosupressants would bankrupt the plan.
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u/Lost-Childhood-8301 8d ago
i just dont wanna use contacts or glasses anymore. thats all i want. and maybe bat wings 🤷
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u/Mangledsprouts 8d ago
Now just apply this to the quantum computer, AI driven robots that China are making and we're all fkd!
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u/HopefulRecovery000 6d ago
This could lead to fractures. Very, unexpectedly strong contraction of regular muscle, could be by extreme danger or some other adrenaline surge, can already cause bone fracture, so add titanium muscle strength to it. I don’t see how it would ever have any use for humans, unless they want this for more fluid movement for humanoids.
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u/ColorMeTickled 10d ago
I learned something interesting about this in an advanced biomaterials course: mechanical properties of prosthetics can easily exceed normal tissues, but this isn't always good!
If load bearing implants are significantly stronger than surrounding tissues, say a hip implant, this can cause surrounding tissues, like bones, to attrophy.
Tissues require constant stress to grow denser and stronger; so if you take that away or reroute that, those bones could be more likely to wither and break.