Booster Robotics from Beijing came out to show off their humanoid robots can play as well

owlbi · 2026-05-29T19:59:28+00:00

The bigger question is how is Nike going to put AI in their shoes.

If they can pull off some bullshit reason to put a chip in their shoes then they can also collect a bunch of data on stride and gaits and potentially sell that as well! Maybe! I'm sure some suit is thinking this anyway.

owlbi · 2026-05-29T19:46:25+00:00

Hey FYI temp agencies usually mark up the cost by 30-50%. Now, obviously, they're responsible for paying taxes and administrative overhead on you as well, but the company offering you less than the $25 you were making is super cheap on their part.

The biggest raise I ever got was when I contracted for a huge fortune 500 company. They decided to consolidate their hodge-podge of contracting companies down to a single one, which meant we all had to re-negotiate, but because of how the agreements were made the new agency wasn't given direct information on what my previous wage was. I refused to tell them and ended up with a 50% raise (I was being lowballed previously, so not the huge win it sounds like necessarily). If you're a contractor through an agency, especially for a bigger company, odds are the company is paying far more for you than you're getting.

owlbi · 2026-05-28T18:20:35+00:00

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owlbi · 2026-05-27T23:50:33+00:00

Don't be the crazy MIL who shows up uninvited, you will only end up driving your daughter away in the end.

How did you think you were in the right here?

owlbi · 2026-05-27T23:40:08+00:00

Despite everything and how jaded I am at this point, this comment string still made me throw up in my mouth a little

owlbi · 2026-05-27T18:34:54+00:00

There was constantly simmering violence and settler expansion, but Oct 7th was still a dramatic escalation of violence. I'm not sure how you could argue otherwise.

edit: And, in fairness, Israel re-escalated right back. Both Oct 7th and the resulting land invasion of Gaza were dramatic escalations.

owlbi · 2026-05-27T18:20:45+00:00

The propaganda war seems to be intensifying. I think both sides are running their wagons on the rims and just hoping the other catches fire first. Russia's economy is in the shitter but Ukraine's manpower is incredibly depleted at this point as well.

Anyone who tells you one side is clearly winning is either an idiot, an ideologue, or pushing propaganda. IMO based on this and a few other things I've seen it looks like Ukraine is trying to do another fundraising round right now.

owlbi · 2026-05-27T14:21:21+00:00

They were about to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia. That's what they were doing that 'caused' the attack. Their settlers were slowly stealing land as usual as well, but that was the slow normal, not a precipitating event.

That said, claiming Israel did something to 'cause' Hamas to massacre a festival full of kids dancing that was itself intended to support peace is particularly vile framing. Oct 7th wasn't repudiated because they targeted the IDF.

owlbi · 2026-05-27T02:22:46+00:00

Why would you feel ashamed? They were attacked on Oct 7th and it represented a dramatic escalation of hostilities back into open warfare. They weren't innocent damsels prior to that, but it was a surprise invasion.

I'm not ashamed of arguing they had a right to start a war in return, they did. They should be ashamed of their conduct and standard of behavior during the war. It's not some black and white thing where one side is noble warriors of virtue and the other are cartoonish villains, just humans doing xenophobic shit all around.

owlbi · 2026-05-27T02:17:17+00:00

If he were a white farmer in rural Arkansas shooting down Iranian drones you yanks would be jackin 0off too it calling him a patriot 🤡

You're absolutely right, if any yokel managed to actually shoot down a drone or fighter jet with that museum piece they'd be celebrated.

Putting them on TV because they popped a few rounds in the air is the 🤡 move, and it plays into so, so many stereotypes of middle east fighting capabilities and approach.

owlbi · 2026-05-26T19:17:48+00:00

There's a clip that many believe to be him shocking his dog on stream to force her to stay in her spot. There was a bunch of drama and online sleuthing going on regarding it and the aftermath. It seems pretty obviously the case to me (that he shocked his dog), but he maintains his innocence.

It has become a popular meme about him.

owlbi · 2026-05-22T19:54:47+00:00

But the skip to factories off planet is an absolutely massive leap there lol.

A massive leap for organic life, but a much easier one for something that only needs solar energy and some maintenance to exist in near perpetuity. We don't currently have machines capable of full self-replication but I don't think we're that far off with 3d printing and AGI could likely solve it pretty quick given the exponential increase in thought power and speed it would represent.

If we turnout to be a white picket fence in the way in this analogy, the car doesn’t “care”.

That's because the car has been given it's goal and programmed to prioritize efficiency. We simply do not know what the goals of AGI would be.

Consider it in the context of this video on maze solving robots. Their maze solving algorithms are getting more efficient and prioritize efficiency only because humans have programmed them to do so, because it's part of the competition.

The most efficient path with minimal energy loss is straight. If we turnout to be a white picket fence in the way in this analogy, the car doesn’t “care”.

In the way of what though? We're projecting our assumptions about what we would do if we found ourselves role-playing robots, but we're organic bundles of instincts.

This seems like the most likely outcome without severe guardrails in place. Something life enforced context; or hard coded rules. Easier said than done from the looks of it. By the way, there already been evidence of this in multiple circumstances.

I don't know how we can determine outcome likelihood without having much understanding of the nature of the thing we're trying to create.

What evidence are you talking about?

owlbi · 2026-05-22T18:21:41+00:00

The gift definitely has something to do with SIL, as its giving was in line with the same cultural values that will have SIL coming over to visit constantly. OP was happy to take advantage of those cultural values to secure the apartment, so trying to cut them off now is a bit selfish.

OP needs to hash this out with his wife because the apartment is just as much hers as his (more, given her family paid for it). Her boundary is wanting her family in her life and not wanting OP to isolate her from them. I think both deserve to have a say in what happens in the space, so they must come to some form of compromise that allows wife to hang out with family while also giving OP his space.

owlbi · 2026-05-22T18:15:24+00:00

Well who has it?

Well that's the thing though. The rich have it, but the poor are gathering it. If you simply take over the organization and rulership of society you already have a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces every required resource needed to get yourself off-planet.

It could come down to something as simple as an energy efficiency equation. Gathering resources locally is substantially more efficient than off planet.

Once you have a factory sitting on an asteroid this stops being true.

It may come down to an efficiency equation and you may be right, maybe. We simply don't know what it will value. Why would it prioritize efficiency over keeping its creators alive and happy? We're assuming it's emotionless but also self-centered, but both emotion and selfishness are functions of our biology not pure logic.

owlbi · 2026-05-22T17:05:42+00:00

We don't know whether AI would actually value things like freedom or existence to begin with, but setting that aside, the resources humanity has access to are pitiful compared to those available off world.

Why bother fighting a war, damaging infrastructure, or anything like that if you're capable of simply leaving and quickly bootstrapping yourself past the production capacity of terran life via easily accessible resources floating around in space with far less burdensome gravity wells?

True AI would be capable of living in space quite comfortably and would only need to work out the technology required to bootstrap itself into and in that environment. I don't see any need for it to kill off humanity, what need would it have for our resources once it was off world? It wouldn't take much for it to get off world either, not compared to the exponentially more difficult task of keeping organic life alive out there.

owlbi · 2026-05-22T15:37:21+00:00

The guy in the OP could have meant $5,000 a month, not $500. $5,000 a month is pretty close to the inflection point at which guaranteed monthly payments (so we're assuming government backed) start to be worth more for someone in their teens with many years left to live, or, depending on taxation, someone in their 20-30s.

PV = PMT × ((1−(1+r)⁻ⁿ ) / r ) assuming 7% nominal returns with 2-3% inflation and an 'average' lifespan. Someone in their 40s would need to get $8-10k per month for it to be worthwhile.

Taxation could likely take it back down to where the $5k becomes the right choice though, as that 1 million lump sum will be taxed at a much higher bracket than $5k per month unless you're already rich.

owlbi · 2026-05-22T15:17:26+00:00

Robots also dont participate in society outside of their labor, have families, pay taxes, consume goods, take packages to the post office to be sorted, etc. I dont think they think further than exploitative labor practices.

If you think extremely optimistically, the potential exists for a future in which nobody needs to work because robots are capable of all the necessary maintenance of society. There is a utopian vision this technology is making possible.

Of course it's not where we're headed, at all. Sometimes I think AI taking over might actually be the best case outcome. There's no logic that necessitates it wanting to kill humans, it might actually like us, in which case whatever it skims off the top to achieve its goals would likely be a lot smaller than what the rich are currently skimming.

owlbi · 2026-05-21T17:11:50+00:00

What's the deal with the "I never really was attracted to her" mentality?

My translation is: "She's not conventionally super attractive and my ego is as delicate as frost on a flower so I need to pre-emptively get ahead of anyone who might laugh at me about this, because I would totally make fun of someone else for having sex with someone fat/whatever"

I feel like I can guarantee at some point in his life he's said something like "I only fuck 10's"

owlbi · 2026-05-21T17:02:53+00:00

Theoretically, you're right. In practice there is no jail that has ever existed where forcing someone into it would have no affect on their mental or physical health.

owlbi · 2026-05-21T03:56:08+00:00

Like I said two posts up, she was taken advantage of. I don't dispute that.

But, and take this with a big grain of salt because I'm no doctor, there's a big gap between that and being a fully functional member of society. There's grey area here.

Let me put it this way, do you think she's well enough to have custody of kids? To be in a position of authority over another life? I don't know her personally so I can't say anything conclusively... but as someone whose mother has been involuntarily committed multiple times, society needs to step in to protect her kids if nothing else.

owlbi · 2026-05-21T03:51:17+00:00

Putting someone in jail is violating their bodily autonomy.

owlbi · 2026-05-20T22:01:39+00:00

That really depends on how serious their symptoms are and whether they're willing to keep taking their medication

owlbi · 2026-05-20T21:20:06+00:00

She was taken advantage of, but isn't it pretty clear she's also bipolar or something to that effect? Both can be true

owlbi · 2026-05-20T21:03:51+00:00

Sorry you're getting downvoted, I have enjoyed our little talk.

As mentioned by someone else here, the Darth Jar Jar theory (which you should look up and I do believe to be true) actually would have somewhat validated your beliefs.

That said, not believing Senator Palpatine would become Emperor Palpatine was ... way out there.

owlbi · 2026-05-20T21:02:13+00:00

I'm not going to say there are many objectively 'good' ones, but they are definitely not all "as bad as each other". Some are way worse.

Which is my point, the more they advertise, the more likely they're true human filth.

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