| ▲ | drfloyd51 3 hours ago |
| > The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver. Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed locations of our cities. We might not get killbots today but we will get pacificationbots. |
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| ▲ | pera 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I remember reading in the news that Pokémon Go was quite popular in Palestine. If GP has access to this dataset it would be interesting to know how sparse is the data in that area. |
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| ▲ | btbuildem 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | If the data was spatial - shapes and layouts of buildings and streets and such - that dataset is no longer current. | | |
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| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > And now there are detailed locations of our cities. The Pokémon Go data is for small little islands around their points of interest (pokestops). It’s not a detailed city map. The data is extremely sparse and only covers little tiny bubble around their sparse in game POIs. The way it was represented as some sort of high resolution city map or world model was quite ridiculous. |
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| ▲ | reaperducer 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The Pokémon Go data is for small little islands around their points of interest (pokestops). That's not the impression I get from the TV ads. The ads they run show people walking along sidewalks and through forested paths and through parks in AR mode. |
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| ▲ | Muromec 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Kill bots are used right now in Ukraine, including ones with no operator in the loop (too slow) |
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| ▲ | sciencejerk 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Details? | | |
| ▲ | Muromec an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If you want to kill some redacted that are sitting in a trench inside the killzone but don't want to risk your own life, the ground drone with a machine gun (remote operated as of now) goes there. It was April this year when the news were saying a position was taken over by remote drones alone. With news being Ukrainian propaganda you can of course take it with a grain of salt, but it's probably at least somewhat true. Ground drones however are targeted by the FPV drones (wired or radio controlled), so the new thing is to have a thing with automatic targeting to shoot those. Then again, I at least heard about using something open-cv (yes, some of those run actual linux) shaped on the FPV drone itself, as it really helps with the amount of jamming going on. | |
| ▲ | red-iron-pine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | from 1 day ago: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomou... | | |
| ▲ | senderista 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I love how Western media will just print anything the Ukrainian government tells them with zero confirmation. | |
| ▲ | krunck an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | “We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”
Because there are never any civilians caught in the middle of two warring armies, right? I think the ICC will be getting real busy soon. | | |
| ▲ | Muromec an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That alone doesn't cut war crime definition to get attention to ICC and isn't really different from the usual aerial bombing. You drop the bomb from a plane or 100 of them somewhere around the densely populated area and don't know who they kill, as there is no connection to the drone. Civilians dying in an armed conflict doesn't cut the definition of warcrime by itself. Deliberate targeting and intentional destruction of civil infrastructure that supports life or something like it is. Then of course there is stuff that ICC isn't getting busy about which is clearly above the threshold -- the regular drone safaris in and around Kherson (city with pre-war population circa quarter million people) happening for the last few years. | |
| ▲ | maratc an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > ICC will be getting real busy soon How likely is your opinion to change in the light of the information that, according to the article, it's Ukraine who uses these drones? |
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| ▲ | sciencejerk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Optimistically, it sounds like the USA data could be used to assist USA domestic defense drones, fighting against an invading foreign nation. Pessimistically, maybe democracy's days are numbered |
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| ▲ | red-iron-pine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Pessimistically, maybe democracy's days are numbered that was in the cards in the early 2000s when the Patriot Act got passed, mate. now they just have the muscle (drones) to back it up. welcome to the cyberpunk dystopia | | |
| ▲ | tim333 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Dunno - if you look at the graphs https://ourworldindata.org/democracy the long term trend over a couple of centuries has been towards democracy, though with a bit of a reversion over the last 15 years or so. A lot of the bad has come out of Russia which is struggling a bit these days. | |
| ▲ | idiotsecant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The real cyberpunk dystopia is going to be a lot less glamorous than it is in the stories- mostly just unending poverty, war, and death for the vast majority of us. |
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| ▲ | idiotsecant 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yep, the autocracies of the past only resolved when the ruling machinery needed something from the population. They needed farmers, workers, soldiers, etc. There are clear parallels in the modern world of societies when the ruling machinery doesn't need those things from their population - petrostates. The people in these states tend to be viewed as subjects, not citizens. That's where we are headed A corporate council of emperor kings with armies of pacification bots. The tiny sliver of window we have to ensure this doesn't happen is rapidly closing and there seems to be no movement toward ensuring that this doesn't culminate with the entire power of this new revolution in the hands of a small class of near demigods. |
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| ▲ | red-iron-pine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| story broke yesterday that Ukraine deployed its first fully AI system, no human interaction, and it scored its first kill i think killbots are absolutely a possibility, and very soon. rightwing pundits and meme makers are already unironically quoting Zechariah 13:8 |
