{"id":39046,"date":"2013-10-04T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/this-wont-end-well-for-humanity.html"},"modified":"2013-10-04T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:43:11","slug":"this-wont-end-well-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/this-wont-end-well-for-humanity.html","title":{"rendered":"This won&#39;t end well for humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">But&#39;s it&#39;s awfully cool. \u00a0I, for one, welcome our future\u00a0robot overlords with their galloping laser-beasts. \u00a0(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114800310452543164210\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"114800310452543164210\">Brandon Badger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100861274195482497115'>Engadget<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone just let the fastest legged robot in the world off of its leash: meet WildCat, from Boston Dynamics<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/04\/boston-dynamics-wildcat-robot-runs-free\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/04\/boston-dynamics-wildcat-robot-runs-free\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wE3fmFTtP9g?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SFqg93mDbWo' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But&#39;s it&#39;s awfully cool. \u00a0I, for one, welcome our future\u00a0robot overlords with their galloping laser-beasts. \u00a0(h\/t +Brandon Badger) Reshared post from +Engadget Someone just let the fastest legged robot in the world off of its leash: meet WildCat, from Boston Dynamicshttp:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/10\/04\/boston-dynamics-wildcat-robot-runs-free\/ View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/you-can-run-but-so-can-the-killer-robot-chasing-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":39046,"position":0},"title":"You can run &#8230; but so can the killer robot chasing you","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Oct-18 9:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"It can't be bargained with. 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