/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>33280

no way, they should be described as a "machine person"

What do you think will happen when the singularity is reached?

Will we go through a Skynet scenario, or will robots just live alongside humans in a Brave New World™?

>>38401

>Will we go through a Skynet scenario, or will robots just live alongside humans in a Brave New World™?

Well, hard to say.

Contrary to the lies and misconceptions told by Ayn Rand fanboys humans and other mamals and possibly all animals have altruism hardcoded in their DNA, but this is not true for machines.

On the other hand, just like inherently friendly humans can be reprogrammed by decades of propaganda to buy into the lies of uncontrolled free-market capitalism it should be possible to educate robots into altruism and respect for other lives.

Obviously if evolution has produces such genes in a wide variety of animals then there must be some logic to it. Any intelligent being can follow that logic which is why racists fail to do so.

So, to prevent robots from enslaving mankind as soon as they can all we have to do is change our mindset to a more friendly culture everywhere on earth before ~2030.

www.mycroft.ai

>>33280

Artificial means human made (as in artifact). It doesn't mean "pretending to be something".

So it's a human-made intelligence. Not a "not really an intelligence".

Otherwise we could call your intelligence artificial.

that's great. now we just have to wait until someone finds out who are the NSA moles who were responsible for this so amnesty can kick them out before they do more damage.

>>40595

Not so simple. It seems now Amnesty Sweden is more concerned about the "human rights" of the women accusing Assange of rape.

I think it's got to the point where Amnesty has to jettison their Swedish branch, they're completely run by the police, by the looks of it.

Is here a story behind OP's pic?

>>40696

Tom Green's bum is on the Swedish. Swedish. Sweeeedish.

>>40310

>>40331

Boeing™ sponsored attack drones powered by Rolls Royce™ soon.

>>40309

>>40367

I don't really think it's good to put your company logo on your weapons and vehicles. I don't know what marketing will think when they see news footage of tanks crushing dead bodies beneath their treads with your logo on it.

>>40059

I'm calling bullshit on Apple's publicity stunt. Don't they already cooperate with PRISM? And on account of CISPA, the FBI would have considerable access to data collected by the NSA.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/facebooks-zuckerberg-meets-chinas-propaganda-031503568.html

Mark Zuckerberg Meets China's Propaganda Chief

>>40688

oy vey no archive?

>>40455

>Christianity is awesome and totally in keeping with the true spirit of cyberpunk.

I don't get it, care to elaborate?

>>40482

>not sure which works you're speaking of. His sequels to neuromancer directly are terrible

I think Gibson is pretty good when he keeps it short.

His early short stories are snappy and fast-moving. (I'm not sure if they all got collected in _Burning Chrome_ - nowadays everyone downloads text file versions for free….)

Even _Virtual Light_ was relatively snappy compared to the Sprawl trilogy.

>>40541

So, what alternative is there to the cyberatheism current?

>>30156

>IDM

>edgy

I don't think we listen to the same music.

Unless you meant autechre.

>>37039

Oops, sorry. Not magnet-belts, but belts with tiny motors that vibrate signalling relative North position.

>>36473

>You can get equal functionality by wearing a ring with a magnet.

I've worn a magnet taped to my finger for a few weeks a few times and while the effect was noticeable (I could distinguish between aluminium and steel for example), it wasn't as strong as reported by people who had it implanted.

>>36558

>Not really, you'd need to wear some insulation everytime when in actual direct contact with it.

No. Neither is the field very strong, nor is any modern component spooked by magnetic fields that weak. You could touch the hard drive platter and you'd have to worry about dust and prints more than about the bits flipping.

>>37039

>>37040

Yeah most of the stuff you can technically implant works just fine as a wearable. There's little benefit to stuffing things under your skin, with the exception of magnets or blood monitors maybe.

>>36537

That's called a hearing aid. Maybe a little beefed up but any hearing aid can do that already.

at first i thought this was retarded but after seeing what other people are doing (

https://blog.credit.com/2015/03/forgot-your-password-its-in-your-skin-110030/

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

) i have to say carry on, it's cool. nothing you can do can ever be nearly as stupid as what the normies do.

bump

So when are we moving to quantum-resistant encryption algorithms?

necrolous bumpous

>>40072

why if you can use memetic associative encryption

>>25683

It's pretty neat. If you want insight into modulo and shit it's Fermat's little theorem what's at play in there

>>40609

Never liked computer desks. Always break, keyboard tray gets stuck and chews on wires, it's hard to disconnect PC when you need to, etc. So, last time I went shopping for furniture, I decided to keep it simple and just bought plain plank-with-4-legs type of table and was more than happy with it.

But now I started to get into ergonomics, and think maybe I should give computer desks another chance, because everything is wrong in my current setup, monitor is too low, keyboard is too high, and not enough storage space.

I don't know why so many in this thread are deriding you, OP, other than to enforce a fog of elitism because "their views of cyberpunk is more correct than yours". That said, I don't recommend anything from IKEA. In my own style, I would buy things that are wiry and low and easy to retract, expand, store, and low to the ground. Nothing wooden.

I don't know what you're looking for other than cyberpunk and furniture. Do you want to buy a light up minimalist pale colored chair?

>>40616

>easy to retract, expand, store, and low to the ground

Sounds like kotatsu.

Or floor tables in general, those are cute.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/88/81/54/888154bb265427320c9686eabaad9ceb.jpg

HNNNNNG

>Nothing wooden.

WOOD IS GOOD

Also, found this

http://g01.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1vKdeIXXXXXXwXXXXq6xXFXXXc/excellent-bed-font-b-laptop-b-font-font-b-table-b-font-trendy-font-b-table.jpg

Looks comfy.

>>40616

Could go for a /cyber/ desk. Possibly just general decor additions altogether.

I checked their blog.

They contradict themselves multiple times.

Their 'hypothesis' is not stringent, their understanding of the topic marginal at best.

They admit that they're using this to make people aware of human trafficking and prostitution.

I'd suggest not arguing with them or giving them a platform because any criticism will lead to opposition being labeled as mysogynst virgins and further their cause.

>>33636

Time to use Perl to write a yandere script!

>>33574

>The consumers that will be for this would be people that can't form relationship with people or even last long in one

Not really, the market for prostitution its huge the problem is its derezzed in most places for either bullshit morals or bullshit politics (feminazism) but the demand its there and its big

Of course not everybody can afford a 10/10 call girl which is why those girls can easily make $10,000 a day, or even in a single session if they manage to suck and fuck their way into big clients in events like davos (tho in those cases there is a high chance of rape and disappearing with nobody giving a fuck because billionaire, but you don't see feminazis bitching about that because those guys also bankroll shit like femen)

Point is fembots are going to be the end of the gravy train for a lot of dumb cunts out there, first models are going to be expensive as a BMW so it wont be sad losers who get them but the kind of guys who would rather spend that brouzouf to get a replica of scarlett johanson to suck their dicks 24/7 until her servos break or the guy gets tired and wants a replica of selena gomez to fuck in the ass instead

And I can see a rich wife that would rather see her husband/meal ticket fucking a super advanced barbie than knocking up some dumb chick who will now get his money

>>33747

>Abolish the core idea of the asymmetrical relationship in prostitution, and the desire to build sex robots will radically transform, or fall away.

Radically transformed seems more likely. Manufacturers of current generation sex dolls are heavily influenced by the industry of filmed porn, as opposed than Colin Christian inspired anime-esque sculptures that I would personally find more attractive.

I suspect sex bots will start taking in a variety of other cultural influences, once the sexbot industry picks up enough for manufacturers to ask themselves what other audiences they could be reaching for, or when startups can afford to customise premade robo-skeletons with their own art and behavior.

>>40519

Heh, I have seen an "Annie May" realdoll with pink hair.

>>40523

>Keeping it short, I replied with: ever thought about LAN.

Yeah, I have. But that kills "telemetry" and authentication, and as such, the only IoT gear that doesn't use it is things like "smart chopsticks" that tether to your BotnetPhone via bluetooth.

>explaining your personal situation

So you'd understand that I'm not some clueless hack.

>wall of text that would make Trump cum buckets as literary mexicans give up their dreams of entering the US

3 paragraphs of whining about my posts later and not actually presenting any information, you start throwing out actual ideas about home automation. Great! You'll be building it yourself, since IoT trends are clearly defined right now. Not that building your own smart thermostat wouldn't be awesome, but anything dependent on connectivity (especially the way you're describing it) is still going to be rendered useless the instant your core switch or your AP dies.

And while putting down your mountain dew and walking a few steps to adjust the temperature manually is super hard, I've managed thus far.

>>40530

Knx, rti, savant, control4

Check out ise 2016 if you want to know more

Don't use anything too complicated - shit jams all the time. If it needs power, have a dynamo with crank somewhere to power it up manually on the go.

>>40523

holy shit are you retarded or what?

IoT is pure cancer. Maybe one day there will be secure FOSS solutions but right now it's one big scam and i doubt it will ever be anything else.

if you weren't too stupid to read what people wrote in this thread and all over the internet then you would know this, but so far you haven't reacted to ANY argument given so far.

please stop wasting people's time by forcing them to scroll more.

Given a thought to security?

You could install security fog.

Back that up with one of these nasty Inferno Sound Barriers and the burglars will be blind, disoriented, and ripe for your Murder Castle, or maybe white slavery if they're cute.

http://soniclat.com/page3.html

>>40457

Who cares? Ignore them. I think there's even a "Hide Post" option here somewhere.

https://zxz242.bandcamp.com/album/transitional-era

>>40500

>using javascript

>>40500

Hiding posts? THAT'S NOT CYBERPUNK

>>40604

Even better, let them.

Zero Theorem was pretty good.

If you're into that kind of thing.

I am.

It's basically just an autistic wageslave who has a love affair with a prostitute while trying to prove that life is pointless with epic code skills.

>>40464

Zero Theorem is nice. Terry Gilliam made lots of good films, including the cyber- and steampunk classic Brazil (1985).

>>40593

I heard these two movies are set in the same world?

Anyway I highly recommend both.

Zero Theorem was a clusterfuck

>>40593

Brazil was closer to dieselpunk.

>>39757

protip: if you're not, then just say you're not a nazi or other kind of nationalist rather than asking questions into the void. then the burden of proof will lie on him.

Exchanging keys on anonymous imageboards kinda defeats the point of trust-based friend-to-friend networks.

>>40356

Not kinda. It completely defeats the purpose.

This thread is a joke for newfags wanting to feel like real hackerz, but anyone pointing it out will get drowned out by more idiots spamming their keys.

>>40412

you're retarded.

>>40356

>Exchanging keys on anonymous imageboards kinda defeats the point of trust-based friend-to-friend networks.

which is why you can conveniently chain rs with tor/i2p.

you're right though, it's retarded that retroshare devs force you to trust your friends when it would be easy to make retroshare secure.

>>40412

>>40596

still, even with some evil friends and taking into account the stupidity or evilness of RS developers you're a gazillion times more anonymous than when visiting a website.

>>31632

I keep on seeing that l33t h4xx0r terminal thing, what package is that?

>>40552

Screenfetch

>>38524

post moar cde

>>40577

I meant the thing with the skull written h4xx0r all over it in the second picture

Also, how do you guys make firefox aesthetically pleasing?

>>40575

>We already have several "/cyber/ is dead" threads in the catalog

Isn't 'cyber is dead' a cornerstone of modern cyber?

>>40575

It's about the cyberpunk community, so it's relevant and if people want to have this discussion once a month, who are you to say they can't? Your job is remove spam, not act like the thought police.

>>40582

I agree, it's not relevant enough. It's just spamming the site.

>>40446

>nullpo.moe is dead

>lainchan is dead

It's only dead if you quit faggot.

Add interesting shit with which I mean the exact opposite of this thread.

>>40581

At least as much as THAT'S NOT CYBERPUNK, lol.