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Rich People Are Turning Their Homes Into Hitman Levels With Armed Guards, Lasers, And Moats - Kotaku
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Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter/drone.
How hard would it be to program around a dozen drones or so to execute a coordinated kamikaze attack?
It's for a book, I swear
ironically or unironically?
unironically don't commit acts of terrorism.
ironically though, arduflight can do flight planning, and could probably trigger.. other hardware at the right time if you need to. diy drones are probably less traceable too.
you can have an entire arc in your book about the democratization of making people afraid of beautiful clear days, it would be sick.
Thanks, and i am being 100% serious about the book thing
I am currently getting my first book edited for publishing, while also working on the sequels
Including manuals & blueprints in your books counts as fiction.
Map of ~~Stephen Miller's house~~ Mordor
... I don't want to know what assorted meats are back on the menu in that house.
... ok but being a terrorist ironically just as a concept sounds kinda cringe.
Tho theoretically one could prob incorporate, purely for purposes of irony, billionaires own tools into the drones to customise them, keep things fun (after all, the point of terrorism is to inflict terror damage on the opponent so keeping class solidity would make sense).
Like some drones could be controlled by their own AIs, some drones would be coal powered instead of battery, some such diy drones could use a military drone as their main payload, etc.
i can excuse the cringe as long as some pedo fascists get luigi'd
How feasible is 3D printing synthetic insect swarms that crawl up people's asses, and set their own batteries on fire?
i remember seeing years ago, an israeli (or was it us?) company demonstrating a tiny ai drone that could quickly fly up to peoples faces and blow their brains up with a small explosive.
from that to blowing up someone's asshole, i don't think it's too much of a wild stretch (heh).
But having it heat up in your asshole, giving you time to freak out, seems funner.
If only the left weren't so anti-ai.
I'm only anti-AI in the sense that under our current system, it's only being used as a means to deprive us of our means to make a living
I want cool shit like robot buddies and holodeck simulator games, but not if it's destroying the environment and ruining people's lives
Anything under capitalism is gonna do that anyway. 🤷 Did you think using Google as a spellchecker all these years was green? Lol.
Spellchecker? I just move my fingers really fast and it usually works out
40 grand on a college education reallg panned out for me
Dictionary, spellchecker, whatevs. None of this (waves arms around) has ever been efficient or sustainable.
Famously compute heavy spellcheck.
Famously small Google data centers.
compared to LLMs everything but bitcoin shit is green.
I don't think you want generative "AI" to program a coordinated kamikaze drone attack.
Don't tell me what I don't want.
We can abstract it to the idea of a video game. Imagine a video game with a dozen enemies all attacking the player with none overlapping. Easy peasy.