The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages(arstechnica.com)
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The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-internet-cant-stop-watching-figure-ais-humanoid-robots-handling-packages/
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The robot vs human competition livestream is here: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056057736601669989
The Proleptic Wake:
> You void-stream your own obsolescence porn in a proleptic wake — automation anomie dressed as content, bricks going up with a smile.
Where "proleptic" is a real rhetorical/literary term meaning to anticipate something future as if already present. A wake that is happening before the death; Paraphrasing. And "anomie", Durkheim's term for the breakdown of social norms leaving people unmoored.
I also kind of like Doommaxxing, but I don't think that captures all of it.