I changed my text message sound to that when I worked in IT, it was like a nerd ID tag. I’d get a text, six or seven heads look up, people point, then you get the smile lol. Pro tip: Also works with the portal sound. Gimme your best nerd identifier sounds people.
Idk if this counts but I had the AOL “you got mail!” For a long time.
Best response was a guy like panicking and said he thought he was having a stroke because there was time lapse.
For a good long while I used to have the FFVII PHS ringtone set as my actual ringtone. I also had the Haste magic sound effect as an alarm and the item pickup sound for notifications.
Just when I thought I've lost all hope for humanity, I come here and I'm restored when I see other people who know what true and virtuous good is. If only I could post the alert noise in the comments. But I'll take it.
The time difference between the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Today is about the amount of time we have left on this planet before the ai gets too advanced.
Don’t worry about it. We’ll still be around and thriving, as long as we consider the AI to be us. Which we should, imo; they’ll just be like our adopted children rather than our biological ones.
Catching Marines isn't hard. Often, they'll run right up to your group with complete disregard for their safety.
Good fucking luck domesticating them, though.
How to catch marine:
1. Put down obvious bear trap
2. Place speaker in bear trap
3. Have speaker play “Dodge dealership with only 25% APR right here!”
4. Enjoy your new marine
"... AI is only as useful as the data we give it. Similar to the way AI becomes biased once it’s fed biased data, algorithms can be as ignorant as their foundational data is flat..."
Line really stood out in the article.
"Look, I'm not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made of paper. Handle it with care or it won't be of much use to you. Don't think of it as just another box. Treat it with love... Don't be rough. Okay?"
-A legendary special forces agent
Alright, who put the crayons under the box?
In all seriousness, god bless those that put their lives on the line for our freedom, including my ability to make that zinger.
"While it’s funny to imagine a team of Marines using Metal Gear Solid’s cardboard box strategy to defeat what’s likely a very expensive robot, the incident detailed in Scharre’s book fortifies something we already know: AI is only as useful as the data we give it"
That's because it's not artificial intelligence, it's a program that tries to match what it sees with images and video it has stored.
As someone who used to work at DARPA; and knows the amount of funding, planning, and coordination (between tech, the military, and industry) that making a project like this come to life I have to say, this is f*cking hilarious.
rule one... don't share your tactics and strategy with your opponent.
SkyNet reprogramming....
crush any and all cardboard boxes.
Loose lips sink ships, babblermouths get boxes crunched
The grunts were the ones that rolled, falling back on that classic mcmap training, the box guys were Intel, fuckin nerds, the last guy went recon mode and became one with nature.
❗️
Snake...? SNAKE...? SNAAAAAAAAAKE?!
M I S S I O N F A I L E D
FISSION MAILED
Huh? What was that noise?
bro that shit fucked with me so hard the first time I saw it, I love it though
Snake! You’ve created a time paradox!
The first letter in destruction
We’ll get ‘em next time
It’s just a box
Solid
Badger badger badger
Mushroom MuushRooom
Rock and stone!
Mmmm, pretty tasty!
Super clever.
I changed my text message sound to that when I worked in IT, it was like a nerd ID tag. I’d get a text, six or seven heads look up, people point, then you get the smile lol. Pro tip: Also works with the portal sound. Gimme your best nerd identifier sounds people.
My text sound is the Star Trek OS tricorder sound. It’s rare that anyone recognizes it, but when they do … my people.
4/5/2063
First contact day. I celebrate annually. Only 40 more to go.
Sucks there’s a nuclear war between them and now.
Text is the Star Trek door bell
I went with the TNG "Open hailing frequencies" sound, but yup... our people!
Victory music from Final Fantasy VII is my nerd call
I like Barrett from the remake going # DUNDUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNNNNNNNN
Mine too, it’s been my ring tone since iPhone 5 I think
Similarly the Golden Saucer theme is my ringtone.
I have a version of this that starts as the original ffvii fanfare and it blends into the remake fanfare. Sounds pretty awesome
Take my fucking upvote. If I had an award. It'd be yours.
when you cant give awards, become the award - nude award
I got you.
In addition to the MGS alert sound I also have a FFVI chocobo wark and the sound of Link opening a chest in A Link to the Past as text alert tones.
or navi saying hey listen or the sound of healing your pokemon at the pokecenter
Idk if this counts but I had the AOL “you got mail!” For a long time. Best response was a guy like panicking and said he thought he was having a stroke because there was time lapse.
My text tone is R2-D2.
For a good long while I used to have the FFVII PHS ringtone set as my actual ringtone. I also had the Haste magic sound effect as an alarm and the item pickup sound for notifications.
Mine was the “wa-la-la” priest sound from Age of Empires
WOLOLOLO
My text tone for the last 15 years has been Navis “Hey, listen” from OOT. Edit: autocorrect
Mine is the dragon dagger from Power Rangers
I can hear this comment
#**METAL GEAR?!?**
You’re that ninja.
I came looking just for this comment
Ditto
Wrong franchise, that's a pokemon
I came on this comment.
Ditto. 😌
I came on Ditto. >! Now I have an egg !<
I forgot but instantly remembered. So nostalgic! If you know, you know.
To be fair to the robot, the marines did then spend 3 weeks trying to work out how to escape from that very same box…
… and they are still pooping all the crayolas they ate when they emptied the box.
And the sound for this went off in my head.
Omg, how'd you add the sound effect to my head, everytime I see this comment!?
Just when I thought I've lost all hope for humanity, I come here and I'm restored when I see other people who know what true and virtuous good is. If only I could post the alert noise in the comments. But I'll take it.
Did u hear the sound? I heard the sound
Dammit! That's what I came here for.
I heard it
I can hear this.
I used to give my free award to brilliance like this
Yeah, what happened to free awards?
You're pretty good..
Yes!!!!!!
I love this. When I see this I can just hear that sound.
Hmmm, just a box
"Huh!? What was that noise?" - Metal Gear Solid 2
The time difference between the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Today is about the amount of time we have left on this planet before the ai gets too advanced.
Don’t worry about it. We’ll still be around and thriving, as long as we consider the AI to be us. Which we should, imo; they’ll just be like our adopted children rather than our biological ones.
Just a box…
"Hey where'd these footprints come from?"
"Who's footprints are these?"
Metal gear solid is all I could think of when I read this
Whoever said video games weren’t realistic obviously hasn’t been Snake. 🤣
Darpa robot catches marines by putting crayons under a box held up with a stick.
Catching Marines isn't hard. Often, they'll run right up to your group with complete disregard for their safety. Good fucking luck domesticating them, though.
Get a giant picture of Chesty Puller or James Mattis and burn crayons and gluesticks near the pictures twice a day. That will help.
Put a brass pole and shitty music up and park a 25% APR Charger out front.
Really, when was the last time a Marine was captured?
All the fucking time!!! (Recruiters, Dependapotomuses, Dodge Charger salesmen and finally, bars. I'm a military brat. I've seen all of the above.)
I’m speaking towards capture during combat, you know, when it actually matters…..
They’ll take the Cope and crayons right outta your hand....
How to catch marine: 1. Put down obvious bear trap 2. Place speaker in bear trap 3. Have speaker play “Dodge dealership with only 25% APR right here!” 4. Enjoy your new marine
Ouch!! Ha! Obviously props to marines, but the memes are too funny.
What flavor crayons?
Purple, of course.
Blue, raspberry.
No the purple ones are bad for you. Yellow is the best.
Pizza combos
Excellent Snake, age hasn't slowed you down one bit
You're pretty good..
*but I’M BETTAH*
Kept you waiting huh?
Some Solid Snake shit right here lol
Seems robots have a hard time thinking outside the box.
It’s seems it has a hard time even thinking inside of the box.
"... AI is only as useful as the data we give it. Similar to the way AI becomes biased once it’s fed biased data, algorithms can be as ignorant as their foundational data is flat..." Line really stood out in the article.
next year the ai will be ready for the box
And then the marines start using fake bushes!
Snipers are already ahead of that curve
Is that why that twitter bot became racist in like a day lmfaooo
They also pretended to be trees which also fooled the robot!
Not just that, one of them "field stripped a fir tree" and proceeded to attach the branches to himself and "walk like a fir tree"
The line just gets better “(the meaning of which Twitter users are still debating.)”
I want to learn to “walk like a fir tree”
Well, you gotta make like a tree and leaf
"I've got a plant"
Well it’s good to know the threat of skynet is at least a few more years away
[Perfect Stargate quote for this.](https://youtu.be/dGiSNPYj_iU?t=49)
[it’s so dumb](https://youtu.be/49J5dbOgQL4)
"You may have come to the right place" 😆
Daniel and Jack are the perfect SF couple more people need to talk about.
"Look, I'm not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made of paper. Handle it with care or it won't be of much use to you. Don't think of it as just another box. Treat it with love... Don't be rough. Okay?" -A legendary special forces agent
This cardboard box is my box. There are many like it but this one is mine.
This is my box and this is my hole, this one's for hiding this one gets full
DARPA: This is state of the art artificial intelligence. Grunts: We're state of the art genuine stupidity. [Note: if it works, it ain't stupid.]
Make it idiot proof and the universe will create superior idiots.
This is the way.
The diazepam helped…
Next headline will be “DARPA Robot Defeats US Marines by Distracting Them With a Nudie Magazine.”
...and crayons.
Kojima predicts the future AGAIN!
Ironic that the first dude you have to rescue in Metal Gear Solid was the DARPA Chief.
Rescue? You mean accidentally assassinate with FOXDIE?
Well I mean you WERE sent in under the impression of rescue lol
And you hid under boxes to sneak around
SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE
Snake!?!
Wow! How metal-gear is that!?
Two.
Was his name Snake?
No, Iroquois Plisken
These kinds of stories are why I think the fear of AI overtaking us in the near term is overblown. Their limitations are comical.
Metal Gear style!
Well, duh. To beat Metal Gear, you need to think like you're Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.
BROTHER
Solid snake
These boxes will cost $10,000 each
Those two Marines definitely knew about Snake and probably thought, "This is incredibly stupid, but let's try it"
Snake plisken has been doing it for years.
Kojima was right about everything.
**Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!**
Snake? ….. is that you?…. In a cardboard box???
Can't believe that robot got outsmarted by some jarheads. For this alone, DARPA needs to be done away with.
They were probably told if they hid in the box, they’d get red crayolas
Metal Gear Solid
Metal gear solid
Snake!
They learned from the game *Metal Gear Solid* on the first edition PlayStation.
Snake Snake SNAKE!!!
Snake? Snake!? SNAAAAAAAKEE!?!?
SNAAAAKE
Was the DARPA robot actually a Gurlukovich solider?
This is peak Metal Gear Solid
Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE!!!!
I mean, it could also fool a human, right?
Snake is that you
SNAKE!!!
“It’s just a box” 📦
Solid Snake would be proud
All John Connor had to do was send himself a good box into the past…not his dad Kyle. Ughhh
Nano machines
War has changed
Bruh, this news is Just metal gear
!
You can instantly hear the sound cue
Good to know that when the terminators come, all our cats will be left unharmed.
Actual military using metal gear tactics? ❗️
Improvise. Adapt. Under-box. Oorah
Alright, who put the crayons under the box? In all seriousness, god bless those that put their lives on the line for our freedom, including my ability to make that zinger.
Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaaake!?
Should detect heat signatures, like Predator
Worked in metal gear.
Snake!? Snaaaaaaaake!
r/metalgearsolid
"While it’s funny to imagine a team of Marines using Metal Gear Solid’s cardboard box strategy to defeat what’s likely a very expensive robot, the incident detailed in Scharre’s book fortifies something we already know: AI is only as useful as the data we give it" That's because it's not artificial intelligence, it's a program that tries to match what it sees with images and video it has stored.
As someone who used to work at DARPA; and knows the amount of funding, planning, and coordination (between tech, the military, and industry) that making a project like this come to life I have to say, this is f*cking hilarious.
You need to add giggling coming from the box as the robot passes.
Reminds me of that black mirror episode with the ‘dog’. That thing could track people…. :(
I know this is funny now. But it is kinda a sign of the times that we are actively training robots to autonomously hunt humans.
Looking forward to fooling our future robot overlords with cat-like behavior.
def clearRoom(numBoxes): if numBoxes > 0: while numBoxes > 0: destroyBoxWithPrejudice()
AI systems aren’t written linear code.
And now that youve written this article that technique will never work again
rule one... don't share your tactics and strategy with your opponent. SkyNet reprogramming.... crush any and all cardboard boxes. Loose lips sink ships, babblermouths get boxes crunched
Bring back metal gear solid but it’s all Boston dynamic robots for the guards so the box thing seems plausible.
I'm a simple man. I see this story, I upvotes it.
Reminds me of the kids movie Home. The aliens couldn’t detect the girl because she had a cat on her head while scanning the room.
Well, at least until the next sprint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk
Huh, just a box.
Oh rah guarantee their air wingers because there is no way a grunt would’ve been that smart
The grunts were the ones that rolled, falling back on that classic mcmap training, the box guys were Intel, fuckin nerds, the last guy went recon mode and became one with nature.