Terrifying

  • @[email protected]
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    134 minutes ago

    You know, it was super creepy until I got to the video without a soundtrack and found out they sound like farts.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 hour ago

    Someone on reddit had the idea that people working on this thing are probably recording audio logs onto individual USB-sticks, which they then leave scattered all over the facility.

  • Cyber Yuki
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    6 hours ago

    A 500-watt electric pump serves as the robot’s “heart,” pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.

    As usual, when you read the article you stumble upon a gigantic technical hurdle. 😕

    EDIT: And I’m not against the technology. I’m all for prosthetics and humanoid robots for menial work.

    Just imagine the possibilities if full human-pike prosthetics are developed. Think of people who have lost their arms or legs, suddenly being able to walk again.

    (And of course, applied robotics for sex bots 😉)

    • @Valmond
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      32 hours ago

      human-pike prosthetics

      Now you’re talking!

  • @slaacaa
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    1613 hours ago

    “At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”

  • @hark
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    712 hours ago

    Now have it stand on the ground without supports.

  • @[email protected]
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    6021 hours ago

    We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?

    • @OZFive
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      1920 hours ago

      It’s the Torment Nexus dilemma.

      • @buddascrayon
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        516 hours ago

        I’m currently using ChatGPT to develop code that I intend to incorporate into my latest version of Roko’s basilisk v0.17.13

  • @[email protected]
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    2118 hours ago

    Maybe a weird aside, but what does this mean?

    pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.

    Are there “liters” other than the 10cm x 10cm x 10cm definition?

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        3 hours ago

        Thanks, you succeeded hahaha.

        From what I’m reading there this is a measure of mass flow rate of gas, expressed as volume per minute at some standard volume and pressure. Which makes some sense, you need those two parameters to be fixed so you can measure mass by volume.

        And then I realized the OP article uses it for a fluid liquid 😂

        • @[email protected]
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          4 hours ago

          Aren’t fluids and gases kinda the same thing in some aspects, just different mass? (Clearly, not a scientist).

          • @[email protected]
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            23 hours ago

            The major difference is compressibility. Generally, liquids are practically incompressible. So just knowing the mass flow rate and density, volume flow rate can be calculated. It’s not so simple for gases

          • @[email protected]
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            13 hours ago

            First of all: Sorry, I made a mistake yesterday. I ment to say liquid but translated it wrong in my head

            Now to your question, they are similar in some aspects, that’s what makes gasses and liquids both be considered fluids, so fluid dynamics apply to both for example.

            The difference is how much the molecules in the liquid or gas interact: A lot in the liquid, not significantly in most gasses under standard conditions.

            And the things is, the SLPM measure apparently relies on a characteristic of ideal gasses, that one mol of gas particles under standard conditions always takes a fixed volume 22.41 l. So now I’m confused why they would use it for hydraulic fluid, which sounds like a liquid to me.

    • @WhiteRabbit_33
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      617 hours ago

      Volume changes based on temperature and pressure. So when we reference volume measurements like for flow rates, we typically do the math to adjust those to standard temperature and pressure. Standard pressure is 1 atm but standard temperature varies based on who you’re talking to because of competing standards. It’s usually 25 C or 20 C.

      When we want to reference the non temperature and pressure corrected volume, we append actual to it so that people know what the measurement is. Some people don’t do that and that causes confusion for others using their work if the reading is standard or actual.

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      417 hours ago

      You mean the flow rate of a volume of liquid? What are you confused about exactly?

      • @Yttra
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        517 hours ago

        They’re asking why it’s “standard litres per minute”, instead of just “litres per minute”

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          Oh, well yeah Standard liters per minute or SLM, specifically refers to flow rates measured in the U.S.

          So the “other” measurement would evidently be Europes “Normal liters per minute”.

          What the difference is, I couldn’t tell you.

  • enkers
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    9724 hours ago

    They really did go for the “horror movie about to go very wrong” aesthetic when they made those videos, didn’t they.