I've had this idea for a sci-fi fiction where there's a distributed network of artificial intelligence controlled self-replicating drones that set fire to houses owned by billionaires. The drones wouldn't be entirely self-replicating, but they could automatically make online purchases of the parts needed to build a copy of itself, and then retrieve and open the packages, and assemble them. I think it could be possible with commercially available programmable robot arms, quadcopter drones, solar panels, and like a raspberry pi.
That would probably be really popular so long as you included very detailed and accurate descriptions for how the drones assembled and weaponized themselves. People really dig that kind of attention to detail.
Bonus points if you make it take a von Neumann twist where the bots start kills anyone with more property than Diogenes had, leading to a complete collapse of the world and the recreation of a primitive society ruled by their robotic overlords for a period long enough to brain drain humanity while the bots loose the ability to sustain their population due to the destruction of the means of production. Or some shit like that
I've had this idea for a sci-fi fiction where there's a distributed network of artificial intelligence controlled self-replicating drones that set fire to houses owned by billionaires. The drones wouldn't be entirely self-replicating, but they could automatically make online purchases of the parts needed to build a copy of itself, and then retrieve and open the packages, and assemble them. I think it could be possible with commercially available programmable robot arms, quadcopter drones, solar panels, and like a raspberry pi.
That would probably be really popular so long as you included very detailed and accurate descriptions for how the drones assembled and weaponized themselves. People really dig that kind of attention to detail.
Bonus points if you make it take a von Neumann twist where the bots start kills anyone with more property than Diogenes had, leading to a complete collapse of the world and the recreation of a primitive society ruled by their robotic overlords for a period long enough to brain drain humanity while the bots loose the ability to sustain their population due to the destruction of the means of production. Or some shit like that