robot swarms
i for one welcome our... aw fuck it.
posted by jmorrison on 05/23 | permalink | send entry

I rtfa, but I can’t quite parse the title, ‘robot swarms cloud danger.’

Could be a: robot (adj) swarms (noun, plural) cloud (verb, plural) danger (noun, obj of verb)
Could be b: robot (noun, sing) swarms (verb, plural) cloud (adj) danger (noun)
COuld be c: robot (adj) swarms (adj) cloud (adj) danger (noun)
Are those all the possibilities?
Do we interpret this to mean a: swarms of robots perform the act of clouding danger? Does clouding mean to conceal, reveal, or overwhelm? In all cases, what is the danger?
Or b: does a single robot somehow perform the act of swarming a ‘cloud danger’? Could one or more robots prove efficacious against a ‘cloud danger’? At least this version gives us some description of the type of danger we are contemplating.
Or c: are we being warned against ‘robot swarms cloud danger’ in which it is the cloud of swarming robots themselves that prove dangerous?

I know, I know, the article presents this as a pure utility, with swarms of robots looking for landmines and that sort of thing. But if I were a bad terminator ai looking to kill every last human, I wouldn’t send ahnold with a machine gun; i’d send a trillion bug-sized bots with the ability to burrow in and cut jugular veins, and they’d wiggle into every crawlspace a human could possibly hide.

Even if we assume these critters don’t kill us, the gutterment will soon have the ability to detect illegal merry-jew-wanna on everybody that has any, and send us all to work camps.

aw, fuck it. like you said.

posted by  on  05/23  at  06:38 PM


aw fuck it indeed.

posted by jmorrison  on  05/24  at  08:09 AM