Originally published at: 100,000 MAN...ER... ROBOT ARMY. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
While everyone has been watching the DOGE of Venice Elon Musk’s DOGE software programmers chew their way through the corrupt federal government, one wonders exactly where all this will end. Don’t get me wrong, I’m entirely in favor of much of what I see going on. The administrative bureaucracy is far too big, far too inefficient,…
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Whenever anyone suggests mass producing robots, even ostensibly for the purpose of helping
mankind, I’m always reminded of this short story that I encountered in a worn-out sci-fi mag at
a cozy little bookstore in a small mountain town…
It’s called “With folded hands”… Do check it out if you haven’t already.
My suggestion is that the outcome in this story would be the BEST case scenario. Only goes
downhill from there…
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As far as Musk’s software being uploaded into federal systems, of course they have backdoors etc built into them. That’s the whole point of developing widely used programs.
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As they say, " the more things change the more they stay the same" And we all thought that days of back door PROMIS are behind us. Looks like they are coming with a vengeance with Musk DOGE. Latest reports are, that he wants to buy Sam Altman Open AI for $97B.
And all these new illegal criminals at GITMO will have their sentence shortened for a trial with NEURALINK.
Not to mention big crowds in El Salvador prisons will also find its new purpose.
I smell multibillion dollar Neuralink contract soon. They may reach bigger valuation that TESLA .
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Loved it!
As Spock might engender his short reply - to exclaim, “So logical !”.
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Here’s a whole book of sci-fi short stories. His is on page 424 in an easier to read format.
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Read the story, interesting ending….
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