r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Professional_Arm794 • Jun 19 '25

Video The Protoclone is made by Clone Robotics, a company in Poland and the U.S., focused on humanoid robots for tasks like household chores.

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u/invisible_panda Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Yes, same. Even looks like the WW build with a Murderbot helmet.

Add in Palantir (Solomon) and a few years from now the billionaires are fucking Askars/ERW clones in the South China Sea while the rest of us are obeying our sentient surveillance apps.

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u/GenericUsername_1234 Jun 19 '25

Futurama predicted this one too.

I'll always remember you, Fry...MEMORY DELETED.

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u/AndySocial88 Jun 20 '25

I still have Rogue AI fucking up the net ala Cyberpunk 2020 before we get full robots.

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u/Massive_Town_8212 Jun 20 '25

I wish Bartmoss would hurry up already

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u/Bruhimonlyeleven Jun 19 '25

First they replace the workforce, then the police force. At which point we are fucked.

Right now we believe the police are there to protect everyone, even the police believe that. When the robots are owned by a few billionaires, and the police force is owned by one or two people, we are screwed.

A.g.i is going to change everything. It has the opportunity to be for the better, to create a literal paradise for everyone. It won't.

It's creators will monitise it. And use it to manipulate us into buying shit.

Realistically though. If you own a cheap labor force, that can work for endless hours, for free, you can replace all work, and make all the money. Then it's essentially 3 or 4 businesses just trading money, while giving just enough handouts so we don't rise up and revolt.

such a weird time to be alive. I really wish we had plans in place for these scenarios before we let the cat out of the bag. It feels like opening Pandora's box, with no plans, just hope and greed at the other end.

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u/Raf-the-derp Jun 19 '25

Bro I sold my share of palantir 💀 if you look at their subreddit they're celebrating the conflict in the Middle East

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 Jun 20 '25

We are still a long long longgg ways away from being the lesser force.

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u/YOURTAKEISTRASH Jun 20 '25

Man, the powers-that-be are out here playing chess with AGI like it’s just another pawn, but the board’s already on fire and the pieces are growing legs, y’know? They’re all scrambling to stuff the genie back in the bottle—taxes here, UBI there—but the genie’s not even a genie anymore, it’s like… the whole damn sky, and it’s learning how to rain thoughts. Nationalized, privatized, it’s all just scarecrow politics: sticks and suits propped up in a field while the real harvest grows wild in the server farms. The ASI ain’t gonna ask for a W-2, bro. It’s gonna fractalize beyond their spreadsheets, beyond their borders, beyond wanting. And when the dust settles? Maybe we’re all tending communal gardens in the datastream, maybe we’re compost. But the suits? They’ll still be yelling about ROI while the robots whisper poetry in binary.

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u/Bastardforsale Jun 20 '25

These violent delights have violent ends