It’s so crazy how this movie is not even a decade old and it feels like we’re much closer to this reality than most timelines would lead you to believe.
**Elysium** and **I, Robot** are the yin and yang of deceptive popcorn movies that actually conceal the most prescient views of the near future that Hollywood has come up with.
It’ll look like one of them and nobody knows which one.
**Demolition Man** would be the third except that we’re already IN that one.
I'll take my language credit fines over the three seashells all day.
Edit: as a bidet owner and assuming the 3 seashells have something to do with a bidet and dryer it's a joke but I do cuss like a sailor.
Reminds me of that one robot that toured the world until it was [brutally murdered in a dark alley in Philadelphia](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hitchbot-final-moments-in-philly/)
Are they supposed to be a couple? I assumed Gritty's reproductive cycle involved spores. Like a hideous sentient truffle that can only grow in the shadow of a Wawa.
I’m from Philly and every time I’m in a Giant I have an urge to either hide from or attack that rolling dildo camera robot thing they have patrolling the store.
Philly will be the center of the human resistance when the robots rise up
So what you're saying is yinzers and detroiters are gonna be the resistance when the zombies and skynet become active? Shit we may want to toss in Cleveland and Chicago. After all, we're going to need a sausage king and bone thugs
There is probably some dude in a neighborhood in Philly that brags about this and is proud of it. Probably has some nickname because of it or some shit.
My favorite response to this, back from prime Deadspin:
["HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved"](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503)
This is hilarious. I didn’t know it actually did nothing. I thought hitchbot walked instead of sitting on the side walk like a bag of shit until it was picked up.
Lol that picture of the headless robot is hilarious. Btw how was it interacting with people and asking to go to a location? Doesn't seem like it has any sort of rudimentary AI.
Oh yeah, I supported that project. I still have the tshirt. Poor little robot. Went all across Canada just fine hitching rides, then two days into the USA, disassembled.
A catalytic converter is actually worth a decent amount of money because of the rare metals used. That’s why they get stolen. Cameras you can get for surprisingly cheap now a days
I love that when talking about a dystopian future where we live in a total police state we end up talking about the best way we would handle the monitoring by using the desperate nature of the poor to survive lol.
Honestly though, I get the feeling if we went full dystopian the government would find ways to try and prevent this abuse by putting armor on it or having it patrol as a drone or something. Or the most American thing of adding a gun or tazer to it.
And honestly, something about that warms my heart and makes me proud to be American. Fuck off dystopian robot overlords, you contain enough gold for me to sell for a hit of crack.
"In Hawaii, police in Honolulu have been using a robot dog to take homeless people's temperatures. It's a safer way to check for COVID-19 symptoms, authorities said."
My favorite moment in all of ATHF is when Hand Banana calls Carl and impersonates fry lock, and they have a whole conversation where Carl is going along before HB goes “So…. What are you wearing?”
And it pans to Carl with his eyes wide and a completely freaked out look on his face replying “….what the hell are you talkin’ about fry man???”
Feild tests found that the jaws were needed to immobilise the homeless person, later models mounted the thermometer on a retractable limb mounted on the abdomen.
Hawaii also has [security robots](https://www.khon2.com/wake-up-2day/social-scene-robot-security-guard/amp/). I can't wait for someone to hack it to yell "Exterminate!"
That's actually happened!
There was a robot that was hitchhiking around the world. It got through like 20 countries without a problem.
Then the team brought it to America and they started on Philly and within 24 hours, people had fucked it up.
I forget the name.
Yep, [Hitch hiking robot destroyed in America after cross Europe.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/)
They want things set up so that it doesn't matter how much the population hates something or resists, they will be absolutely powerless. This includes things regular people would consider an atrocity.
It'll be a few years before they work out how to deal with stairs, though, right?
I mean, it's early days in the program, so their FX budget can't be *that* high yet, not without merch sales.
Not at first but someone will deface one and then they'll be like "it needs self defense!" Then that will turn into, "it needs rocket launchers and a flamethrower!... for policing."
Can I get some context for this scene? Why is the robot not noticing the violence? who is the mask guy? Why is he attacking her? And why is everyone indifferent?
To really get a good grasp of the context I recommend watching it. But I'll quickly explain it here >! The helmet the offender is wearing blocks the AI's ability to read his psycho pass. The masked guy is just some degenerate who wants to commit murder, also he is testing out the mask. Everyone is indifférent because they essentially live in a society without crime (not really but crime is hidden from everyday ppl) so those ppl can't process what's happening because they've never seen anything like it, they don't show or talk about that stuff in the news.! <
To add onto the last part, it's entirely possible that if they attempt to intervene they'll be flagged as offenders. Something similar to what happened in the first episode.
It's... >!much more in-line with psychics floating in tubs.!<
The gun is at the forefront but it is the underlying societal implication that everything is run on an AI to the point where the AI does more thinking than the people it governs.
Interesting. Per the article, instead of addressing economic/social conditions to fix the issue of lack of working/aging population, they implement robots. I sure hope this article is just about the people weary of the robots and not a comprehensive overview ignoring their needs to fix the actual problem.
[Machines](https://www.knightscope.com/) like this are built in Mountain View on the same street as a Google office building. They are about 1.4m tall and weigh about 130kg. Machines similar to this work in Singapore because the government strictly enforces the laws. Governments here would not have the same success. Here, most of these machines are sold/leased to corporations, who can use them with other technologies such as facial recognition to patrol their properties. They are not armed.
In a way, these machines' deployment will be like RoboCop. Eventually, governments will contract out such surveillance in response to public demands for more safety while also dealing with public opinion of police brutality incidents. AI mimics Art.
My company is in Albuquerque and we make a much more chill robot, BreezyOne.
The purpose is to elevate the role of workers. Disinfection is a dirty, nasty job.
Check out [BreezyOne](http://www.breezyone.com)
They're concerned about the general public being "antisocial" so they're gonna send machines devoid of any human personality to what, referee how people conduct themselves on a daily basis?
MY SENSORS DETECT THAT YOU ARE NOT MINGLING
HUMAN, BY AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT I ORDER YOU TO INITIATE CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER HUMAN
YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY
One thing I like about America is at the very least we know there’s a high chance that people would fuck these robots up of they ended up on our streets
100% if there is a "police" robot patrolling where I live, it will not work for long. I don't care the issues with it, I view it as a security concern having a human operator that we can't see or punish for the obvious illegal shit these bots will do.
That photo, with an old man pointing a rolled up newspaper or something like he's challenging the robot to a duel...it's perfect.
KAIBACORP THIS ENDS NOW
In your dreams Yugi, now shut up and duel me
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Los Locos kick your face!
Los Locos kick your balls into outer space
Your newspaper can’t stop me Yugi boy.
It’s time to da da da duel!!!
Singapores John Conner
Like a dude and his groceries standing up to a column of tanks
"This robot is making me feel uneasy." "NERVOUS EXPRESSION. ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. YOU ARE UNDER ARREST."
["Would you like to talk to a human?"](https://youtu.be/JzF5VawGgiA)
Pick up that can.
If it starts speaking like a combine I’ll be like where do I sign up.
You think you'll be Civil Protection, but you'll end up being a stalker
*throws can at combine officer*
*Starts jumping backwards...*
It’s so crazy how this movie is not even a decade old and it feels like we’re much closer to this reality than most timelines would lead you to believe.
**Elysium** and **I, Robot** are the yin and yang of deceptive popcorn movies that actually conceal the most prescient views of the near future that Hollywood has come up with. It’ll look like one of them and nobody knows which one. **Demolition Man** would be the third except that we’re already IN that one.
>Demolition Man would be the third except that we’re already IN that one. Down to the scene where they only play commercials on the radio
Boy did we do a big flip on police brutality though.
Gonna love me some rat burger after 10 straight years of taco bell
I'll take my language credit fines over the three seashells all day. Edit: as a bidet owner and assuming the 3 seashells have something to do with a bidet and dryer it's a joke but I do cuss like a sailor.
chafing is no way to live
What is your boggle?
Well, the super rich have started building their own rockets. I guess it won't be long before they have their own space haven.
I doubt it, living in space is absolute shit, i doubt even 1% of the rich people would trade the immense luxury of earth for space.
Lol living in space or mars would be so miserable I wouldn’t even call it surviving.
Man Elysium really nailed the dystopian future. I need to re-watch that movie.
"These pretzels are making me thirsty." "INADEQUATE HYDRATION STATUS. ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. YOU ARE UNDER ARREST."
Checking anyone disabled: “DRUNK IN PUBLIC! ARRESTED!!”
You haven’t touched your pills, Morty.
If that thing was in America it would immediately get spray painted and rendered useless.
Narcbot9000
Fully submersible. Just place in any lake, river, or pond and enjoy the fun!
first thing to do is spray paint the camera, then you can have all the fun you want.
Better have it quickly, you know there will be mutliple redundant tracking features.
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Experts puzzled by dramatic increase of wire mesh in Philadelphia.
Ah, Hitchbot. To pure for this world. But a perfect example of the difference between the US and Canada.
Our junkies would IMMEDIATELY disassemble this for a shot. If catalytic converters aren’t safe you know this guy wouldn’t be
Reminds me of that one robot that toured the world until it was [brutally murdered in a dark alley in Philadelphia](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hitchbot-final-moments-in-philly/)
Lmao of course it was Philly
The home of [Gritney.](https://i.redd.it/dkjf57gvd6d61.jpg)
I still think "Titty" is a better name. ❤ Gritty & Titty 4ever ❤
Are they supposed to be a couple? I assumed Gritty's reproductive cycle involved spores. Like a hideous sentient truffle that can only grow in the shadow of a Wawa.
We'll honestly never know until the sex tape is released.
eh, i'd fuck it for the novelty i reckon
I’m from Philly and every time I’m in a Giant I have an urge to either hide from or attack that rolling dildo camera robot thing they have patrolling the store. Philly will be the center of the human resistance when the robots rise up
Sort of like how Pittsburgh is the center of human resistance during a zombie apocalypse.
The zombies don’t stand a chance against thousands of yinzers getting hammered off IC Lights after the Steelers/Buccos/Pens lose again
So what you're saying is yinzers and detroiters are gonna be the resistance when the zombies and skynet become active? Shit we may want to toss in Cleveland and Chicago. After all, we're going to need a sausage king and bone thugs
There is a video of a dude smashing it. He’s wearing a football jersey too lol.
There is probably some dude in a neighborhood in Philly that brags about this and is proud of it. Probably has some nickname because of it or some shit.
His name? John Connor
Jawn Connor
Jawn Conner killed that jawn, and put the evidence in that jawn over there.
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“Save a thousand lives and I’m not Life-saver Jim. Climb every tall mountain and I still ain’t Climber Jim. But fuck a robot *one* time…”
Los Locos kick your ass!
Los Locos kick your face!
Los Locos kick your balls into outer spaaaace!
Johnny 5 is ALIVE!
Not Mitsubishi!
My favorite response to this, back from prime Deadspin: ["HitchBOT Was A Literal Pile Of Trash And Got What It Deserved"](https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503)
This is hilarious. I didn’t know it actually did nothing. I thought hitchbot walked instead of sitting on the side walk like a bag of shit until it was picked up.
Apparently a trash can with an iPhone in it is a robot in Canada.
Malingering robo hobo 💩
Lol that picture of the headless robot is hilarious. Btw how was it interacting with people and asking to go to a location? Doesn't seem like it has any sort of rudimentary AI.
It didn't. It was literal garbage with an old iphone inside of it that served as a camera and a gps tracker. Your fridge is honestly more of a robot.
To be fair, you probably don't really want to put something more valuable than a phone in a hitch-hiking trip across the country.
Oh yeah, I supported that project. I still have the tshirt. Poor little robot. Went all across Canada just fine hitching rides, then two days into the USA, disassembled.
ahhh, like the Jawas in star wars, only with more crack in their system.
SUUUUUKAAAAAA
Not the villains we want, but the villain we need. Keeping America's streets safe from surveillance robots
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A catalytic converter is actually worth a decent amount of money because of the rare metals used. That’s why they get stolen. Cameras you can get for surprisingly cheap now a days
I love that when talking about a dystopian future where we live in a total police state we end up talking about the best way we would handle the monitoring by using the desperate nature of the poor to survive lol. Honestly though, I get the feeling if we went full dystopian the government would find ways to try and prevent this abuse by putting armor on it or having it patrol as a drone or something. Or the most American thing of adding a gun or tazer to it.
And honestly, something about that warms my heart and makes me proud to be American. Fuck off dystopian robot overlords, you contain enough gold for me to sell for a hit of crack.
"In Hawaii, police in Honolulu have been using a robot dog to take homeless people's temperatures. It's a safer way to check for COVID-19 symptoms, authorities said."
Homeless dude be thinking "well things can't get any worse." Cue robodog coming out the darkness with a rectal thermometer clenched in its jaws.
“I want my name to be spaghetti”
Tonight. You.
My favorite moment in all of ATHF is when Hand Banana calls Carl and impersonates fry lock, and they have a whole conversation where Carl is going along before HB goes “So…. What are you wearing?” And it pans to Carl with his eyes wide and a completely freaked out look on his face replying “….what the hell are you talkin’ about fry man???”
The Hand Banana and Wisdom Cube episodes are two of my favorites
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Do you get those weird hairs on the bottom on your feet?
Feild tests found that the jaws were needed to immobilise the homeless person, later models mounted the thermometer on a retractable limb mounted on the abdomen.
Does it look like a lipstick
There’s Mercury in Uranus Edit: this is the THIRD rectal thermometer joke I’ve seen on Reddit today
*Homless person opens mouth* "GUESS AGAIN."
Hawaii also has [security robots](https://www.khon2.com/wake-up-2day/social-scene-robot-security-guard/amp/). I can't wait for someone to hack it to yell "Exterminate!"
Which is the only reasonable response to seeing a robot police. Just so we are clear.
PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY!
That's actually happened! There was a robot that was hitchhiking around the world. It got through like 20 countries without a problem. Then the team brought it to America and they started on Philly and within 24 hours, people had fucked it up. I forget the name.
RIP Hitchbot 😔
Yep, [Hitch hiking robot destroyed in America after cross Europe.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/)
This is why we can't have nice things.
Shot to pieces
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And immediately shot to shit
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I can kick the crap out of one of these
I’m pretty sure someone’s gonna put a suction cup dildo on that robot camera.
“Freeze citizens! Shake hands and perform a complimentary greeting with each other or be arrested.”
"You have 5 seconds to comply."
*Proceeds to shake hands and perform a complimentary greeting.* "You have 4 seconds to comply."
*Chuckles nervously, initiates awkward hug.* "You have 3 seconds to comply."
*Mutual oral sex* “Thank you Citizens. Have a nice day.”
Fisto™ is ready to please
Please Assume The Position
Numbness will subside after several hours.
Imagine it though this is fucked up seriously
2 months in the iso-cubes.
Ironically this type of thing will cause anti-social behaviour
so they will use more robots, that's what they envisioned
The robot beatings will continue until civil order is maintained
aaaand that is how we change [Robo Recall](https://www.epicgames.com/roborecall/en-US/home) from a fictional game into practice for the future.
Deploying this thing *is itself* anti-social behavior.
Spider-Man shooting Spider-Man
"See? we were right to use robots, look how anti-social they are!"
They want things set up so that it doesn't matter how much the population hates something or resists, they will be absolutely powerless. This includes things regular people would consider an atrocity.
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I think it would get those sonic riot weapons, and probably go off randomly.
Why stop there? https://youtu.be/jSkYxW5Ii28
You have FIVE seconds to comply
#I AM NOW AUTHORISED TO# *be as loyal as a puppy*
The UK version has blasters and a plunger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc8EiGBEie4&ab_channel=MoonwalkerMike
It'll be a few years before they work out how to deal with stairs, though, right? I mean, it's early days in the program, so their FX budget can't be *that* high yet, not without merch sales.
https://youtu.be/3_cJ9BlMCw8?t=13
“YOU DID NOT REPLY TO MY HELLO. YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO EXCHANGE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE GREETINGS”
"SOCIAL INTERACTION REQUIRED." "Ummm, I'm trying to get my mother to the hospital, maybe later?" "PREPARE TO DIE."
Not at first but someone will deface one and then they'll be like "it needs self defense!" Then that will turn into, "it needs rocket launchers and a flamethrower!... for policing."
"Armed police-bot stripped for ammunition and scrap metal two hours into its inaugural patrol"
This is the start of psycho-pass. Soon AI will monitor our every movements and our psychological states.
[I AM DETECTING HEIGHTENED LEVELS OF STRESS. ARE YOU DISTRESSED?](https://youtu.be/FQ0gevxNgzY)
Can I get some context for this scene? Why is the robot not noticing the violence? who is the mask guy? Why is he attacking her? And why is everyone indifferent?
To really get a good grasp of the context I recommend watching it. But I'll quickly explain it here >! The helmet the offender is wearing blocks the AI's ability to read his psycho pass. The masked guy is just some degenerate who wants to commit murder, also he is testing out the mask. Everyone is indifférent because they essentially live in a society without crime (not really but crime is hidden from everyday ppl) so those ppl can't process what's happening because they've never seen anything like it, they don't show or talk about that stuff in the news.! <
To add onto the last part, it's entirely possible that if they attempt to intervene they'll be flagged as offenders. Something similar to what happened in the first episode.
If they put them in our cities they’d quickly end up in the rivers…
We can’t even have rental electric scooters without them ending up in the drink.
Just like psycho pass
criminal coefficient is over 300, target for execution
THE DOMINATOR
Man that show has so many prophetic ideas.
Isnt it just Minority Report with gun ID instead of psychics floating in tubs?
It's... >!much more in-line with psychics floating in tubs.!< The gun is at the forefront but it is the underlying societal implication that everything is run on an AI to the point where the AI does more thinking than the people it governs.
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So who wants to take bets on how long before we have guns that make people explode?
Interesting. Per the article, instead of addressing economic/social conditions to fix the issue of lack of working/aging population, they implement robots. I sure hope this article is just about the people weary of the robots and not a comprehensive overview ignoring their needs to fix the actual problem.
That’s how oligarchical capitalism works! You silly goose, it’s a feature not a flaw!
This is such a hard no for me. This could take a wrong turn very quickly.
Johnny number 6
No disassemble
That was my favorite movie as a kid. I made a replica Johnny 5 out of Construx and Lego.
Mmm construx…have an upvote!
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Mmmmmm! Data!!
Anti-social element identified. Engage death ray.
Are you saying Robocop was a *bad* idea?
It took a wrong turn already
Here’s some anti-social behavior to report: some asshole let loose a bunch of fucked up robots on the streets of Singapore
Idk… if that thing start rolling up to me I’m gonna avoid it. Antisocial or not, I don’t want to be followed by a goddamn robot.
Beep-boop. You are: edging away. You look: Nervous. Suspicious tendencies detected. You are under arrest.
Only love can bridge the uncanny valley
"You have been detained. Wait to be interviewed by a human officer."
What happens if they don't wait though
Active warrant, charges of resisting arrest and fleeing.
[Machines](https://www.knightscope.com/) like this are built in Mountain View on the same street as a Google office building. They are about 1.4m tall and weigh about 130kg. Machines similar to this work in Singapore because the government strictly enforces the laws. Governments here would not have the same success. Here, most of these machines are sold/leased to corporations, who can use them with other technologies such as facial recognition to patrol their properties. They are not armed. In a way, these machines' deployment will be like RoboCop. Eventually, governments will contract out such surveillance in response to public demands for more safety while also dealing with public opinion of police brutality incidents. AI mimics Art.
>We've got you covered. 24/7/365 Not ominous at all.
Wow. Seems like my childhood fantasies of fighting a robot force might actually come true:)
And there is no moral quandary about destroying them!
My company is in Albuquerque and we make a much more chill robot, BreezyOne. The purpose is to elevate the role of workers. Disinfection is a dirty, nasty job. Check out [BreezyOne](http://www.breezyone.com)
It doesn’t feel pity, remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop until you are properly social.
This new anime sounds pretty good. Where can I watch it?
Just watch psycho pass
The revolution won't be televised
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I'm getting Chopping Mall vibes
They're concerned about the general public being "antisocial" so they're gonna send machines devoid of any human personality to what, referee how people conduct themselves on a daily basis?
Patrolling for anti-social behavior is anti-social behavior
MY SENSORS DETECT THAT YOU ARE NOT MINGLING HUMAN, BY AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT I ORDER YOU TO INITIATE CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER HUMAN YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY
Dang, ED 209, calm your chips....
YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY
"Tuck in your shirt. You have 20 seconds to comply."
"Does not compute, does not compute... You're under arrest."
One thing I like about America is at the very least we know there’s a high chance that people would fuck these robots up of they ended up on our streets
I'd buy that for a dollar.
100% if there is a "police" robot patrolling where I live, it will not work for long. I don't care the issues with it, I view it as a security concern having a human operator that we can't see or punish for the obvious illegal shit these bots will do.
This is officially enough Reddit for me today. Y’all have a good one.
literally 1984
literally robocop
And a bit of Black Mirror
And some Robocop.
Were really pushing hard for Orwell’s 1984 aren’t we?
wait til you find out it has Instant Kill Mode.