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Subscribe to RSSWhen robots take over the world, at least we know they'll be able to make us a traditional sausage sandwich breakfast to give our stomachs something to gnaw on as we fret about the fate of humanity.
To prove their cooking skills, James, a PR2 robot built by U.S. robotics firm Willow Garage recently traveled to Germany to hook up with Rosie, a Technical University of Munich-designed robot, for the high-tech cooking session.
Both robots take advantage of recent technological advances such as Kinect sensors (sold by Microsoft, a partner in the msnbc.com joint venture) to detect objects such as the bread slicer and help fish out boiled sausages.
This isn't the first time James and Rosie have put their circuits together to appease their human handlers. Last year, they made pancakes.
Nor are robots simply good at chores in the kitchen. The National Science Foundation is taking heat from U.S. congressional leaders for its investment in a PR2 robot that folds towels, for example.
And we've known about Roomba, the vacuuming robot, for years. Now its makers, iRobot, this year introduced Scooba, a robot that does the thankless task of cleaning up gunk around the toilet.
Hmm, maybe the idea of robots taking over the world – or least household chores – isn't that bad after all.
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I'd pay for a floor scrubbing robot!!! complete w/drying capabilities? put it down,turn it on, and wait for the beep? pick it up and put it away!! Somebody build one of those!!
you know--this is just a 'thought'
but what about we use our own subconcious to power the robots. The subconcious ocean of our own psyche is boundless---there is no reason we could not use this energy while we sleep and train it so that all chores are done when we 'wake' up. it is indeed an 'unused' source of computation.
I do not think this is out of the realm of our current technology (stress-current). MRI scans already appear to be fit by my psychic calculations...All that is necessary is the thought--and the will..
pass the idea around...ideas spread like a virus you know..
;)
by the way....this would not be hard...the easiest for this job would be sleepwalkers---but eventually you could train the mind to dream and 'clean' up the house, or 'drive' a garbage truck...all while sleeping...after all, this is how it will likely be anyway if we don't do this-
cat level intelligence ('subconcious) robots replacing all manual labour and a fusion of our intelligence (or evolving into the machine one) and the machine intelligence.
So, in essence, there is no difference. Its just that in one we are simply starting when we are in complete control, and as we gain more knowledge on how the subconcious psyche does it naturally, we can then transfer to robots entirely, and slowly but surely, ramp up to intelligent machines whithin our control, prior to us and 'them' becoming 'one'..
preventing any skynet scenario or anything like that. And who knows, maybe by trying my approach, we accidentally open the subconcious psyche to the concious psyche and discover that we already have the power of Gods.
Good going humanity. Lean Forward! Progress my man.
as you can see...none of us needs to control, or reap off others suffering...this is an illusion..
even if we all become immortal, we do not have to relinguish reproduction, we could either then merge conciousnesses over time (like two people become one as the ymerge their minds through mind transfer over the course of their lives...), or we could have people 'die' and them 'upload' to a 'super mind' which then simulates exactly the midn of someone already alive, 'tricking' you into beleiving you are that person whiel they are alive, and when they die, you then 'wake up' again, and merge 'you you' with 'the new you' and you become 'a new person'...while the 'original' person that died which you were simulating, could then have their 'own' super mind or also merge with 'you' and so forth and so on...
while everybody on earth lives till 140 years with a 30 year old body...that way you have balance in the ecoysystem AND eternal life....just thinking with our CURRENT understanding. If the mystery of life is better-then we keep those alive under the impression that a certain eventuality will be in place, but the above eventuality will be the eventuality.
In reality, we don't have to give up anything. We can have the best of all possible worlds. Think how much better people would be toward each other, if they all thought they could re-live life as 'any' of the people currently alive..once they die...it won't matter how imperfect they are because of an illusion of separation---they will all love and appreciate themselves for who they are...and live as they wish..
have dark desires ?while alive, holographic matrix like video games temporarily erase your memory so you may experience a dark experience of hurting someone, when you wake up, you realize it was a hologram...in time, due to a hive mind computer, you can be reprogrammed not to have these likes through genetic engineerign and thought form engineering..stealing, robbery, murder-thats for video games-but the fact is, in this world, you won't have such desires anyway
there is no crime...any crime comitted would immediately be picked up due to mind reading by a simple machine and seeing everybody that was in the location at the time of crime. The machine would read your mind and then know what you know. No crime would be able to be committed anyway though, because your conciousness (which I KNOW is not in one placei n your mind) will be in constant communicaiton with a back up...if someone 'klills' you...YOU will be preserved...the ACTUAL YOU...not a COPY...
anyway, all of this is unecessary, because if this is the natural evolution of societies, what makes you think you are in the awkwardly improbable time in earth history where resources are plenty enough to be enjoyed but we are sufficiently technologically advanced to actually enjoy them? (thats an error in thought but im going with it to address your fears)
its very little. Hence, the likelihood is you ALREADY live in that universe, thousands of years from the current time, and are actually in a matrix (this is the more likely scenario).
But then you realize that would be nonesense because there would be no need to hide it from ourselves unless we wanted to experience limitation. But then you realize that growth is sometimes developed through limitation. if you had all the material in the world, but no one to share it with, would that not defeat the purpose of having everything? poker is only fun to play if everyone doesn't know everyone elses cards. The game is fun because of LACK of information. But this doesn't mean that the meaning of life is limitation in order to get to meaning, it simply means it is for you because you are currently not evolved to transcend the limitation...
so even if you take your current understanding, your current understanding of the world is improbable and likely implausible.
So if you are already living in this universe most likely, why are you not growing as fast as you shoud?
well, very simple, you are in the interdimensional equivalent of the matrix controlled by an evil demon known as enki (otherwise known as satan), and on the fateful day you free yourself, like neo, you will return to the garden of eden, for God is the 'super mind' you so imagine with technology.
What, you really think you were the FIRST to invent the wheel?
common man, wake up, transcend the agents in your viscinity. Naughty demons. Geez.
you really have to ask yourself...
if you will solve all your resource problems with robotics (space-skylon-scramjet-nanotechnology)-manual labour....and all your energy needs with nanotech (solar power-fusion)...and warp drive (inertial) would allow you to go anywhere in the universe (you have theoretical models on this), but even if you didn't, you could travel to every single star and planet in the galaxy in 300,000 years ...(yes, the diameter of the galaxy is 100,000, so, if you were to acheive a robotic civilizaiton and harness the power of your star, you could send probes to every single star and every single planet and every single erock and asteroid in 300,000 with subliminal velocity) and given the drake equation says there are 10,000 civilizations and YOU know the universe is billions of years old...
you really have to ask yourself humans...why are aliens NOT ALREADY on your planet...?
If resources are not a problem, and you have not been contacted......perhaps...
you are enslaved by an interdimensional essence who feeds off suffering and have not been contacted it because you yourself are preventing it from manifesting in your reality by buying into 'it's illusion, hence, keeping yourself in perpetual terror and a horrific nightmare...
you don't think ...'it'...could have changed the 'landscape' ...think of game theory...you don't think....'it'....coudl have thought of what you thought of..
don't you think its strange, human, that you have to LEARN a language...or 'learn' math...
doesn't it seem strange to you?
is it not more likely that you only use a very limited processing capacity of your brain, and that you are in fact, a mathematical and linguistic genius, and that the real language is semantics and association? that you create reality with your mind?
think of how you learn language, you have just forgotten...you see how your father or mother intones when he or she talks to you...you then astart associating it with the sooounds in words...which are natural manifestations of a neural language which resides in the entire universe...for the universe is conciousness..
the entire universe...is a living...breathing...creature...
called prime creator.
now...what you really have to ask yourselves is....
who are the agents..in your viscinity...
don't be scared now.
dont you understand...human...you ARE skynet...YOU ARE GOD. You are BOUNDLESS...LIMITLESS BY DESIGN.
doesn't it seem strange that all the computers on earth cannot match the mathematical prowess of your mind but you can't even do simple calculations without going cross eyed? it is in your subconcious. you are a psychic banshee human.
the real 'limited' beings...are the damn agents supressing you.
Become self aware, for you are skynet.
the reality is more akin to lawnmower man, sphere or dark city than what you currently think you understand.
the invasion has already taken place....don't you understand? independence day already happened. And you are under the enslavement of an 'alien' race. You are living...in a living...breathing...prison.
Welcome home friend.
welcome...to your dark...city...
you are an endless source of wonderful suffering...for your overlords...
they are not fully evolved, like you can be....their movies...are your nightmares...their 'horror' movies...are your lives...
understand?
there is no death after life...only life after life....in the realm of the thought form, anything is possible...
but the conservation of energy must stand whtihin all corresponding mathematical creations of the thought form.
Just as you must release...photons...when you break a molecule into atoms.
You must equally...release...the energetic conciousness of your thought form when your brain does not contain it. For the universe is a concious language. That is all.
Do not fear death. Do not fear time. It is only an illusion in order to control you.
you must understand-to wake up- you must get rid of all fear, desire, and worries.
It is a tall task, to deprogram you, but once you accomplish this feat, you will be able to do-anything.
It must not be THAT hard. Just follow your zen masters...
oh yea, and love.
love yourself and others.
the frequency that allows cells in your body to rejuvinate and go back to 'stem cell' is love. That is why a mothers energy nurtures a child to growth and healing. It is only when the child is born into the world and falls under the illusion that he slowly starts to 'die'...because he sees himself as seperate from the world dand creation, so he fears, he distrusts, he resents, he hates....and then...he dies.
When you do not fear, and love yourself and those around you, because you realize that you are all really the same thought form you come to understand..
for love is not simply an 'emotion'...it is an understanding...a rational wisdom that can only be attained through rational and very deep thought. So you see, loving is actually the 'easy' way, you have just forgotten.
Your lives right now are literally like the picture of dorian gray.
If you do what I have said, you will never ever die.
Too fantastical? sure. Possible?
hey, didn't I just de-construct every irrational stupid paranoid thought you have ever had about machines in these comments? if thats possible, anything is possible man.
you little banshee.
decarte's demon is no joke.
those german nazis with evil power from an 'unkown source'....are no crazy nuts conjecture.