VIBE CHECK
What does the title have to do with anything?
It’s a company that makes autonomous killing machines.
Oh, thanks
Why DO so many dystopically inclined companies have names taken straight from Tolkien anyway?
Tolkien names are cool, and unfortunately people trying to bring about a dystopia understand that as well as anyone else :(
Granted, it’s just incredible how someone can go through Aragorn’s story about a scion king using loyalty and honor to unite disperate peoples against the mindless hordes of a tyrannical warlord and missing the point so catastrophically that your only takeaway is “that’d make a cool name for my company making mindless hordes for a tyrannical warlord”.
Maybe that’s the point.
I mean people put the ring inscription on shit they wear…
Exactly, Orthanc would’ve made much more sense.
Maybe it was taken?
Just anything evil-aligned would do to show that they at least understand that they’re on the wrong side of history.
You have to give it to Palantir (and nothing else), taking their name from a corrupted artifact that shows you whatever it needs to entice you but ultimately betrays everyone it touches displays an admirable sense of self-awareness.
Aren’t they propped up by Theil? Maybe only those get the funding.
Happy cake day!
it just wants to create art, like the rest of us.
maybe the clankers and I have more in common than I previously thought…
clankers
Seems unlikely
Body of drones too big for those propellers, won’t lift off.
Edit: if the clokers were to attack, ducted propellers are bad: worse flying and is only here for protecting meatbags
If they’re carbon fibre shells with LEDs in them, they could probably be that size. Fragile as heck, yes, but then drones tend to be fragile anyway. There might even be enough strength and space left over to carry something lethal.
I wonder how far away we are from the drones in HL2 that are essentially kamikaze food processors?
Those were the scariest enemy for me because I could imagine them existing in my lifetime.
This reminds me of one of the stories of potentially misaligned AI. Don’t remember the exact example, but I think it’s something like, they made an AI whose only purpose was to create spoons, its only purpose was to make spoons. So, the AI decided that the best way to achieve that was to turn the whole world into a factory for spoon creation, create nano-bots that would go to other planets, mine resources to create spoons there, and kill anyone that would try to stop it, because it doesn’t know right or wrong, it only knows it must make spoon.
That sounds like something that would happen on love death and robots
Spoons
The object produced by the AI in this scenario is usually paperclips.
Clippy gone wrong at 3am challenge (civilization collapse) 🫨😱
Yeah, that’s the one, I couldn’t remember off the top of my head.
A simpler version of this idea is the gray goo. If you made nanomachines that won’t stop replicating the entire universe would become a gray goo of nano machines.
Stargate or tasty planet reference?
Pretty sure those were referencing the original grey goo thought experiment
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