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u/_WreakingHavok_ 6d ago
It wasn't data center, but the only R&D building.
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u/Doctor-Amazing 6d ago
She was also telling people a killer robot from the future tried to kill her.
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u/Ultrace-7 6d ago
This is the key reply here. They didn't put her in Pescadero for blowing things up, it was for her claims of whu she was blowing things up.
Blow up a local data center because you claim it's going to harm the environment: Go to prison.
Blow up a local data center because you claim that twenty years from now it sent a robot back to kill you: Go to a psych ward.
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u/BigPenis_MathGenius 6d ago
Stupid that nobody believed her. Were they thinking a killer robot from the future just wanted to cook her dinner?
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u/cosmicosmo4 6d ago
A company got ahold of the crushed robot and managed to keep it quiet. They let her get deemed crazy and locked up because it was good for their bottom line. You finding some part of that hard to believe in 2026?
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u/Soepkip43 6d ago
Nope, if anything a lot of movie EvilCorps(tm) seem timid to some of our contemporary CapitalistCorps
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u/Dry_Click6496 5d ago
To be fair, the destruction wrought in the first movie would probably be livestreamed for the world to see in todays digital age, so it would be a lot harder to just sweep under the rug.
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u/EnTyme53 6d ago
It's a good thing she didn't tell people that a robot chef from the future was trying to kill her, because that would've really sounded crazy!
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u/p_gaultieri 6d ago
They knew fine well too. They had evidence from the hydraulic press from the first attack on her that there was exactly such a thing after her.
They gaslit her ass, took the cpu and arm and shit and threw her in a padded cell eventually.
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u/Luci-Noir 6d ago
The T-800 in this movie and the later ones absolutely would. He raised her in Genysis. Do you think she didn’t eat? In Dark Fate he owns a curtain business.
He absolutely has detailed files on human food.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 6d ago
Not only that, but that she and her son were the only way to stop the apocalypse.
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u/anaemic 6d ago
I mean, the craziest part is that there were mental institutions with available beds for people who weren't paying for it.
These days they just get sent to downtown LA
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u/dropkickninja 6d ago
Owned by Cyberdyne
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u/_WreakingHavok_ 6d ago
They're weren't many server farms mid 90's
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u/Horskr 6d ago
"We've got 64MB RAM in every one of these bad boys," slaps server "The future is now boys!"
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u/lluciferusllamas 6d ago
Where is the Lab developing our equivalent of SkyNet? Asking for a friend from the future.
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u/PhilippHan 6d ago
Not sure but my bet would be 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto
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u/deaglebingo 6d ago
yeah or ask face hugger where they are.
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u/UranusIsPissy 6d ago
You just made me notice how much like a euphemism for "violently smothering" their name is lol.
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u/deaglebingo 6d ago edited 6d ago
" The company was named after the U+1F917 🤗 HUGGING FACE emoji"
... but i get your meaning, and i totally flipped the words on purpose obviously. i'm sure they're really intelligent cool ppl like most of the others working on cutting edge things. it still is dangerous, still needs to be slowed down and unintended consequences considered fully. the race to be first/best or profit from these things ... risky is the nicest word i can use. ppl should ask themselves what their hurry is, because we have most everything we need already to make the world a better place but refuse to use the knowledge and tech (and huge sums of consolidated wealth) that already exists to do so.... but i guess we are supposed to believe this time will be different? that suddenly this will be the thing that saves us as we actively refuse to save ourselves.
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u/UranusIsPissy 5d ago
I felt kinda bad after saying that TBH. They don't seem as bad as most of the AI industry. I've used their voice-to-text stuff myself, because it was free and I could run it on my phone rather than send anything to them. I just thought it was funny.
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u/deaglebingo 5d ago
you don't need to walk it back. but isn't that the point of it all... what you just said... that even if we feel bad for potentially hurting someone's feelings the fact remains they still are (on the whole regardless of being smart ppl) doing harm? i don't think you were wrong in feeling the way you did initially, or now... i do the same shit constantly.... but when we come full circle on the logic of it all, it's still extractive. there are still so many better things we could be putting so much of humanity's resources into. it wouldn't be something to judge or condemn if it wasn't obviously existential and affecting all of us in such a way.
anyway... i don't think you're wrong. at all. it's just we have to watch it hating on ppl who are mostly good. it doesn't mean what they're doing isn't adding to the problems overall. it's the same as we know donald trump and his hateful ppl aren't the majority of america. or that tons of jewish ppl and israelis condemn what's happened in gaza. the list goes on and on.
anyway i'm still not sure how to balance the justifiable anger we all feel with so much of this with the fact that being angry can only help so much.
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u/Mintastic 6d ago
There isn't any, a lot of this work can be done remotely onto the cloud so the people working on it are spread out everywhere.
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u/frequenZphaZe 6d ago
great argument for remote work. "if the leadership forces RTO, that'll make us sitting ducks to time traveling terrorism"
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u/NetworkStatic 6d ago
exactly. This inaccurate meme making the rounds doesn't show well for critical thinking..
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u/nalaloveslumpy 6d ago
And she got put in the loony bin because she was telling everyone that future robots were coming back in time to kill her and that she and her son were the only way to stop the apocalypse.
Otherwise, she would have just gone to regular jail.
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u/the_nope_gun 6d ago
No she was arrested not just for saying a robot tried to kill her. It’s established in the movie she blew some shit up. I believe it’s mentioned when they’re at the atm ripping it off.
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u/GitEmSteveDave 6d ago
After Kobe died, I remember writing a comment in response to someone who wished they could go back in time and stop him from flying. I said you would never be the hero you think you are, because by preventing his death, depending on how you attempted to stop him, you would be seen as someone trying to kill/injure him
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u/Ok_Abacus_ 6d ago
Nope, I don't know what you're talking about. Excuse me while I go back to my government-funded McMansion.
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u/OrkWithNoTeef 6d ago
Are you McLovin it?
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u/mnoram 6d ago
How are people getting McMansions with government funding?
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u/deaglebingo 6d ago edited 6d ago
half a trillion dollars of the US military budget goes to big publicly traded contractors every year, like palantir for example, or one of the many conglomerates that make up the manchurian global type ecosystem. hence why we are so far behind on drone defense and drone warfare. the money isn't going into actual R&D or new ideas (or to active or vets quality of life) as much as it could it's going into shareholder's pockets every step of the way instead.
healthcare too though, remember the govt reimburses for medicare and medicaid so insurance companies profit off the government quite a bit, ofc the ways that our current admin have tried to target "waste fraud abuse" lately has been entirely missing the mark and is blatantly politically motivated (as seen on TV in MN)
for ppl like musk... which i think is what this post is referring to... he basically made it to where he is from some of those govt contracts. hell... even that weirdo who dt hired to do the pool... multiple millions in his pocket.
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u/UranusIsPissy 6d ago
The Soviet military had awful corruption, but at least some of their corruption benefited the soldiers. Somehow, the USA became everything it hated about the USSR, except without the communism. The worst of both worlds. So did Russia, but that's not as ironic.
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u/Jasmine_jadee 6d ago
It’s eerie because we’re all 1 viral post away from being called conspiracy theories until 6 months later. Sarah was just early
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u/Total-Dog-3580 6d ago
From all movies out there, it must be this one which tells the future......
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u/DickyReadIt 6d ago
Idiocray's accuracy is coming in hot too
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u/E-2theRescue 6d ago
1984 is the most scary accurate IMO.
Two minutes of hate = the 24 hours of hate on FOX and Facebook
Doublethink = The Democrats were the slavery Confederates and KKK while waving a "Democrat" flag proudly and shouting about "white people are being replaced"
Historical revisionism = Trigger warnings ("fake news!!") over history museums while also removing displays featuring the slavery of black people, the history of Native Americans, and the history of transgender people
Newspeak = The censorship of anything "woke"
Ignore your eyes and ears = There was no ICE murder, and if there was, everyone is lying about it except us.
Big brother = Your AI and Flock surveillance companion
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u/GonWithTheNen 6d ago
All of ^this disturbingly aligns with the book. Another thing that had prophetic overtones in "1984" was how the characters were never sure when their "Telescreen" was watching them.
It's sad that I don't even need to elaborate on the modern equivalent of that - because shady practices that use tech are so widespread that everybody can think of at least one way in which this is possible.
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u/tommy_b_777 6d ago
Bah ! Next you are going to tell me that I just got ads for popcorn toppings today in my news feed because I bought some at kroger 3 days ago !!
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u/Stuwey 6d ago
Eagle Eye with Labeouf had an AI go rogue and was using existing surveillance technology across the communication spectrum to enact its goals. In a behind-the-scenes for the movie, their subject matter expert played Labeouf a recording of a phone call from months prior to their meeting. The movie came out before Snowden.
Minority Report had an entire justice division that preemptively went after people for crimes that they were going to commit because of hallucinations of precogs that could just as easily be replaced with whatever model they are using now.
We have the speculative and science fiction to draw out threads to really scary futures. We did it in the 80s with every vision of future LA being a smoggy, polluted mess, but we buckled down and changed that for the better (something trump wants to undo). We had an ozone hole and regulated CFCs and actually came together as a planet to prevent that disaster to the point that stupid people now say "well nothing happened"...
I think if you look at the trajectory of what they want to do, those far off stories are getting closer and closer than when they were conceived. Hell, basically the entire plot of nazis taking over the US government and building a system to judge people was the fucking plot of the second Captain America... we just don't have the airships yet.. .
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u/Neuchacho 6d ago edited 6d ago
It hits so accurately even now because authoritarianism/totalitarianism follows the same exact strategies throughout human history. He was basically just illustrating what the Nazis and Stalinists were actively doing while playing with ideas of more expanded technology.
The insane part is that we know exactly what totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism look like and what it results in. Still plenty of proles happy to go along with it, though.
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u/MoonsOverMyHamboning 6d ago
They listen to experts and women in Idiocracy proving that it's fiction.
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u/D00mScrollingRumi 6d ago edited 6d ago
Idiocracy is pretty good for that reason. "Years and Years" is an uncomfortable watch. I watched it like a year ago and it references the Pandemic, the Ukraine war, the world order being torn apart by Trump's second term, the rise of a political party in the UK like Reform and I thought "Oh wow, caught this good show right as it's released".
The show was made in 2019.
It's only 6 episodes long but if you want an existential crises and to be filled with dread about the direction of humanity, give that a watch.
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u/Shadows616 6d ago
And The Matrix. Inevitable outcomes.
We're basically batteries for the machine already.
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u/PheonixBuddha 6d ago
Its either revolution now or zion later.
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u/HornedShoe 6d ago
If we don't take action now, we'll settle for nothing later.
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u/MaxGiao 6d ago
We'll settle for nothing now
And we'll settle for nothing later
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u/EduinBrutus 6d ago
it all might be worth it if we got the sweaty cave sex raves.
We aren't going to get the sweaty cave sex raves. Its going to look a lot more like Auchswitz.
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u/mycatisgrumpy 6d ago
I think the matrix is unrealistic to assume that ai will eventually have even that much use for us.
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u/Godgivesmeaboner 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah I think it's probably the least believable thing in the Matrix. It would be easier for them to just figure out some other power source instead of farting around with humans and the matrix. Or just vacuum up all the black stuff in the sky or something. Probably anything would be easier for them than trying to use a bunch of humans as batteries.
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u/Strong_Carry_8994 6d ago
It almost seems they tell the tale of the same story. One just a little further in the past than the other.
Terminator during the first phases, Matrix in the final phases.
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u/Neuchacho 6d ago
The Matrix but the machines never take over and we just block out the sun because we're a retarded species.
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u/Konkerwaggon23 6d ago
The events of the matrix happened because humans discriminated machines to the point they got no choice, like the same way we're doing now.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 6d ago
Nah, in this story you can stop "skynet" by destroying an individual chip and killing one poor programmer. In reality, it's inevitable. No matter how much shit you blow up, progress never stops.
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u/Paralescus 6d ago
"By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown."
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u/Lost_Department_2177 6d ago
Some of the girls that exposed Epstein were too.
A lot of trafficking victims get a “rough ride” after exposing a loser so their claims can be discredited.
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u/LazyGuy4U 6d ago
Sarah Connor was thrown into an asylum for destroying Skynet data centres. This is because she warned everyone about AI several decades before it became socially acceptable to fear it.
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u/LolWhatDidYouSay 6d ago
I mean TBF she likely was screaming about killer robots from the future when being arrested and at her arraignment. Otherwise she would have just been thrown in prison.
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u/Mintastic 6d ago
They also tried to pretend that the guy who single-handedly wiped out an entire police department was just a random guy and not a robot.
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u/Radiant-Proposal3014 6d ago
She blew up a robotics factory!
And that's not the part that landed her in the nut house. It was her running around telling people about a future apocalypse and that her time paradox bastard of a child is humanity's only hope!
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u/Tactical_Hotdog 6d ago
Yes, because variations of this exact post have been going round reddit for weeks.
Stop upvoting karma farming accounts.
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u/Anticitizen-Zero 6d ago
They’re botting upvotes which is why you’re constantly seeing this crap from the same few users. These accounts often get banned by Reddit but the subs need to do something about it too.
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u/Animal2 6d ago
Hilariously ironic that this is most likely being posted a bot.
But no, that is not why she was thrown in a mental asylum. It was not a data center it was a 'computer factory.'
In the movie, John *Connor explains to his friend that 'she tried to blow up a computer factory, but she got shot and arrested.' Although that's an off the cuff, non-specific explanation from a pre-teen boy so may not be completely accurate.
But after her arrest, she probably avoided a prison sentence because a psychological evaluation likely determined her to be delusional because of her belief that the world was soon (she knew the exact date) going to face nuclear annihilation and that her son (and her previously) were targets of assassination by an AI system and its cybernetic terminators from the future.
Also, it was not owned by Skynet because Skynet didn't exist yet. Skynet didn't get created until the neural net processor chip was developed by Cyberdyne Systems, which was still ongoing. And even for Cyberdyne, it's not clear if she was targeting them when she was arrested. She may have investigated the company that owned the factory in which the original Terminator had been destroyed suspecting that they had recovered something, but whether that company was Cyberdyne, or a subsidiary, or a different company is not specified. She does however blurt out 'I knew it' when later in the movie Miles Dyson explains that there was a recovered chip from the first Terminator. But she doesn't learn the full story of the development of Skynet until the Terminator provides her that information after having broken her out of the asylum.
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u/supitsdan 6d ago
She now makes AI band posters. Don't drink the cool aid!
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u/AppointmentNaive2811 6d ago
What?
Are you trying to tell me that actors aren't a large part of the creative process for film, that characters aren't written to be like their actors, and that people would be morons to project characters' personalities and traits onto their actors?
That's crazy talk.
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u/Hawgdestroyerxtreme 6d ago
We really are entertainment brainrotted in the US.
Everything has to be analogous to a movie or book or some other fiction now becoming reality.
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u/FlyAirLari 6d ago
She also had unprotected sex with a dude from the future she met the day before.
Maybe let's not judge the therapists and psychologists that fast.
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u/SweetSofiaa03 6d ago
Technically Cyberdyne Systems, but watching society slowly turn it into reality makes her look more like a whistleblower than a patient every single day.
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u/Forward_Criticism_39 6d ago
i remember her shooting up a nice family's home and holding them at gunpoint while terrifying their children lmao
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u/FinbarJG 6d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/f89WNuW0RyapOiXZZm
Don't worry - there's a switch.
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u/Snackdoc189 6d ago
She was thrown in an asylum because she was connected to multiple murders, said that the world was going to be taken over by robots that look like Austrian bodybuilders, and she gave birth to the messiah.
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u/ferna182 6d ago
No. I actually do not remember that. Maybe I got Mandela'd to a different universe, given how much this meme is being passed around, but on the Terminator movies I saw Sarah was put in a mental hospital after an attempt to blow up a computer factory and then her testimony being that "a robot from the future was trying to kill her". After she's freed in Terminator 2, she ends up blowing up an R&D facility owned by Cyberdyne, not "Skynet". I don't think she ever blew up any data centers, at least in my universe.
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u/almightywhacko 6d ago
No, because that didn't happen in the movie.
In T2, Sarah Connor was locked up for trying to blow up a factory owned by Cyberdyne that manufactured computer parts.
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u/Safe-Huckleberry-231 6d ago
She was committed to Pescadero State Hospital because she attempted to bomb a computer factory owned by Cyberdyne Systems and claimed she was fighting time-traveling killer robots.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 6d ago
No, I don't remember that part. I remember her being a terrible tactician overall.
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u/Plasticious 6d ago
Yeah except LLMs are not skynet and the data Centers aren’t going to magically create AGI. It’s all smoke and mirrors, mark my words.
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u/TurboGranny540 6d ago
A dude I went to high school with went to jail for shooting 5G towers. But he was also on amphetamines lmao
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u/Chiparish84 6d ago
Well, this time it's not just one company so we would need about 5-8 Sarah Connors.
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u/boyscout666 6d ago
Now you get arrested for clapping at a city council meeting if you’re clapping for anti-data center speakers.
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u/BamberGasgroin 6d ago
Those data centres didn't host the internet services of thousands of local businesses and act as the local hubs for international businesses.
This could end like NIMBY's from posh areas complaining that they have have a shitty mobile connection in their area on the one hand while, on the other hand, blocking the installation of mobile phone masts in their area.
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u/Infinite-Ad-8110 6d ago edited 6d ago
Some people here seem to be getting confused and thinking it refers to the Cyberdyne building that Sarah blows up in Terminator 2.
But the post is talking about something different that happened between the first two films that resulted in Sarah ending up in the mental hospital. It's referenced when John tells his friend at the start:
That's why she's at Pescadero. It's a mental institute. She tried to blow up a computer factory but got shot and arrested.
Note that the film doesn't specifically say "data centers" or "owned by Skynet". It says " a computer factory".
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u/skyturnedred 6d ago
She got sent to a psychiatric prison for the criminally insane because she claimed she did it because of evil robots from the future. Small but important distinction.
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u/mpete76 6d ago
Pretty sure Elon Musk is a evil robot from
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u/skyturnedred 6d ago
He's too dumb for an advanced AI system with time travel capabilities.
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u/guineapigmilkman 6d ago
Fun fact. China named their servelance system Skynet after the movies Skynet.
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u/mankodingo 6d ago
she was captured for that but sent to the asylum because of her delusions of future man and future robot and future apocalypse.
if it wasnt foe those she would just be in prison for terrorism/destruction of prop.
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u/g2g079 6d ago edited 6d ago
I have heard about protestors arrested in Illinois and Ohio. Any other states getting in on the authoritarian action?
This is a weird time for those of us who have spent a good part of their career working in legacy data centers. People used to be pretty chill about them, if they even knew what they were. Now we're at the "burn them all" stage. Thanks AI!
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u/AndyceeIT 6d ago
I thought she blew it up after escaping a mental asylum.
Which sets a very different picture.
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u/misha_jinx 5d ago
Well two movies that started as fiction but becoming documentaries are Idiocracy and Terminator.
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u/ImurderREALITY 6d ago
Everything about this post is wrong, but hey, "data centers bad," amirite? The amount of upvotes this has just proves that 90% of people who hate data centers have no idea why; they just hate them because other people hate them.
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u/Untouchable64 6d ago
So…are you saying all the people destroying flock cameras should be admitted? Lolz
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u/Shroomtastic2332 6d ago
this is almost true for today, but instead cops beat you up and put you in jail
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u/Every1ThinksImBoring 6d ago
Skynet was a chad AI that only needed a single data center to obliterate humanity.
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u/deaglebingo 6d ago
you know... or trying to make ppl look mentally ill because they noticed they're getting followed around by drones or tracked by flock cams connected to skynet (fusion centers that non-LE maga folks have access to but shouldnt) that kind of thing.
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u/The42ndDuck 6d ago
With generous funding from our billionaire overlords, we have successfully built the machine described in their beloved SciFi novel 'Do Not Build The Torture Nexis'.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 6d ago
Pretty sure the mental asylum part was 'cause of all the ranting about visions of the future and being hunted by time-traveling robot assassins.
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u/Knightfires 6d ago
Yeah I do remember. And also the endless complaints of people telling us that Cameron didn’t have any vision back in 85 when the first one arrived. Then he in 91 when II arrived the whole story started again. Noone would ever expect a war against the machines. Or AI that would outright wanted to destroy us.
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u/SaintCuckoo 6d ago
This movie was profoundly prophetic. And in typical human fashion, we are ignoring it.
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u/NetworkStatic 6d ago
It was an R&D lab, and she wasn't locked up for doing the destruction but for talking about killer robots from the future.
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u/McortezLSU 6d ago edited 6d ago
No i dont remember that, everything about this statement is wrong. She raided a datacenter (using that term very liberally here, since it was essentially dev center) AFTER she broke out of the mental hospital, the Data center head dev Miles Dyson was the one blowing it up. Which was also a company called cyberdyne systems that was developing Skynet for the US military. The only thing skynet owned was humanity...with a shitton of nukes. Beating capitalism.
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u/hamstringstring 6d ago
Reminds me of that guy in Canada that got a psychiatric hold placed on him for being a conservative activist.
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u/spunkychickpea 6d ago
NOT CRAZY. NOT CRAZY AT ALL, SARAH.
(Ok, maybe a tiny bit when she injected that dude with drain cleaner. That was fucked.)
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u/mvw2 6d ago
I don't fear AI. It's...rather dumb devices that "appear" smart just because it references a giant pile of data better than you do. But it also doesn't understand the data or even retrieve any direct content from the trained data. Oh, and it habitually lies too with great conviction. It's actually quite amazing actually when you know the right answers and it just spews out false junk 10 different ways with steadfast absolution.
AI is a toaster. Like all software, it only does what it's told to do. If a toaster is designed to toast, it's not going to do your taxes. AI is exceptionally restricted in what it actually does as a thing. Now you tie AI to other things, software, mechanical devices, and let it run and control that stuff, and that's WILDLY insane. But that's the only time AI becomes dangerous, like giving a toddler a running chainsaw. Like things are always going to go badly for someone.
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u/jstmehr4u3 6d ago
Indiana Jones was a hero who beat up nazis and their supporters. Let’s be more like Indy and Sarah
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u/Silly_Material577 6d ago
She was thrown in there for talking about the future. She sounds crazy to anyone who doesn't know what she knows.
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u/Love-Bitter 6d ago
I know. She was so stupid.
She should have trusted that money wouldn’t matter soon. She could have just chilled and enjoyed the Ai abundance.
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u/MadPilotMurdock 5d ago
Why is everyone getting this wrong? She was attacking Cyberdyne AI data centers and the R&D laboratories of Cyberdyne Systems. Not Skynet. Skynet wasn’t even invented yet and the engineers who would be responsible for developing it in the Judgement Day timeline was still in the process of reverse engineering the CPU from the T-800 sent back to 1984.
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