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I’m confused... is their explicit goal to make terrifying things?! Certainly impressive but... twitter.com/WorldAndScienc

12:03 AM · Feb 26, 2018Twitter for iPhone

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Which episode of Black Mirror is this?

Shivon Zilis

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Feb 26, 2018

It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference, isn’t it?

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holy crap. that's a CRAZY high jump!!

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That thing is like V1 of the killer robot dogs from Black Mirror...

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Considering their original (and maybe ongoing) source of funding is DARPA/Army, this might not be far off the mark.

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I think it’s beautiful. Shows what you can do when you mix math and mechanics.

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Tech at its core lets you do things you couldn't do before. In that universe, you have a subset of things you shouldn't do, but that is informed by morals, ethics otherwise humanities.

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What begins with DARPA ends with arms manufacturing.

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Not surprised. Boston Dynamics is after all the company whose products - and videos of them in action, like this one - were so terrifying that Alphabet decided they were too bad for their public image and had to be divested

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Oh gosh. You should see the footage from their “spiders and scorpions” lab.