RHon-DA987 refblog

this is where i reblog/post everything to do with a story/universe im workin on

[horrifying]

[nekoonaut]

[satellite-delight]

30.929001,-103.075318

[caterpie]

Kyuukyoku Choujin R (1991)

[aku-no-homu]

Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself. We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. by @bilalfarooqui

[shorpyfan]

Reception Desk (General Motors Tech Center. Warren, Michigan, 1965)

[zaticon1]

There’s a girl in my soup!

[adz]

Autonomous Trap 001

“What you’re looking at is a salt circle, a traditional form of protection—from within or without—in magical practice. In this case it’s being used to arrest an autonomous vehicle—a self-driving car, which relies on machine vision and processing to guide it. By quickly deploying the expected form of road markings—in this case, a No Entry glyph—we can confuse the car’s vision system into believing it’s surrounded by no entry points, and entrap it.”

-James Bridle

[horsecrash]

using salt circle motor runes to trap driving AI is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever seen

[transitionalkittaen-deactivated]

“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. “ Arthur C. Clarke

[humanoidhistory]

Inside a computer lab at the astronautics division of General Dynamics, 1968.

(San Diego Air & Space Museum)

[jessaudreylynn-blog]

feeling

[ktt]

UFO Abduction by Eugenia Loli

[jarjarbieber]

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[radio420]

[magictransistor]

Steven Siegel. View of the Two Towers, Jersey City, New Jersey, c. 1980.

[rarabro]

siri read a message from my mom (2017)

[harlequinesque]

i think we’ve gotten as close to a real life Howler as we can get

[discogolfmagazine]

this is literally the funniest thing Ive ever seen in my life

[turings-deactivated20180627]

there are only two types of people adverse to the exploration of ‘consciousness’ in animals: those who benefit from the exploitation of said animals and those who still believe in that cartesian divide between human and nonhuman. you see both in anthropocentric circles of logic, but, anthropomorphism has a nearly identical method of thinking in that it equates nonhumans with humans to give them a supposed worth.

animal science and ethics is torn up by both sides of this black and white “animals are either machines or they are on par with humans” style of logic. it’s a classical horseshoe model.

studying something as abstract and lacking in substantial definition as ‘consciousness in nonhumans’ is tough, and it’s bound to get political because most people who delve into it already come with preexisting ideas. studying something with no definite methods for recording means that biases, strong or not, slant any possible data that could be collected in a way much stronger than in other fields because objectivity is impossible to hold onto when it comes to something like defining an concept lacking in definition through observed behaviour and neurochemical analysis.

and i’m not even gonna get started on what this entails when it comes to artificial intelligence.

[futchish-blog]

*raises gun* yknow like *cocks it* nya