News · moment 5 of 18
The Homeless-Robot Alliance and the Waymo Trunk Stowaway
from Bibi, Genghis Khan, & The Decency To Stay Home | The Tim Dillon Show #488 · #488
9 min
News
Riffing on a news story about a homeless man threatening Waymo riders and a stranger found sleeping in a Waymo's trunk, Tim builds out an elaborate theory that homeless people and delivery robots are forming a symbiotic community, and predicts future homeless "vigilantes" fighting AI security bots.
- Passengers trapped in Waymo after homeless man threatens to kill them for giving money to a robot.
- How a stranger ended up in the Waymo trunk at MacArthur Park after entering through an open drug trunk.
- Homeless people and robots have a natural symbiosis, both out late at night creating their own community.
- Homeless people, discarded by society, see robots as justification that everyone will soon be discarded too.
- Man screamed at Doug Fullop's Waymo in San Francisco, punching windows and threatening to kill passengers for giving money to a robot.
- There will be homeless vigilantes who fight Waymos, and they deserve credit for resisting despite being marginalized.
- When robot police start patrolling streets, they will train on homeless people as targets.
- Robot police will fight homeless people downtown, some nights the homeless will win and it goes viral on YouTube.
- Homeless people will attack accountability bots in coordinated groups, becoming society's minute men and first line of defense.
- AI-driven security apparatus is already being deployed in foreign wars and will inevitably hit American streets where the homeless will have to fight it.
Waymohomelessness and robotsPeter ThielAI and warfarePalantir