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by timdiggerm23 hours ago |
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upvoteby AdamN23 hours ago|
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That's a story that's been going on for literal centuries.
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upvoteby amelius22 hours ago|
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Myeah but is now about to continue on an industrial scale.
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upvoteby unrented797718 hours ago|
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That doesn't make it any less bad
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upvoteby 4gotunameagain2 hours ago|
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How long is a figurative century?
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upvoteby TSiege23 hours ago|
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This is in response to people in the comments saying we should do lidar of the entire world and have AI find whatever it can.
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upvoteby Taek23 hours ago|
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Looters can also do their own lidar scans.
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upvoteby yorwba23 hours ago|
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Probably not of the entire world, though.
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upvoteby paganel22 hours ago|
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For now they cannot do that, nor in the foreseeable future.
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upvoteby embedding-shape22 hours ago|
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Why not? It isn't exactly a secret technology nor are LIDAR-equipped RC aircrafts/drones particularly out of reach in terms of cost either. What would stop them exactly?
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upvoteby jcattle22 hours ago|
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With this you are searching for a needle in a haystack. There's a whole bunch of jungle to cover. With a drone you would spend ages not finding anything due to their limited range. That Would be pretty bad ROI.

Also, drone mounted LiDAR is often not powerful enough to go through dense foliage which you have in these tropical climates.

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upvoteby embedding-shape21 hours ago|
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Ok, those are all reasons why it's hard, which it is for everyone by the way, not just "looters". It's still possible and doable, like it is for others. Your previous comment made it sound like it was impossible specifically for looters for some reason, which I'm glad we've cleared up wasn't your intention, thanks for explaining!
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upvoteby paganel20 hours ago|
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> nor are LIDAR-equipped RC aircrafts/drones particularl

Here in Romania it can be quite illegal to LIDAR map the local terrain without an official approval, and I'm not quite sure if that approval is ever given to individual persons/groups of persons that do not have any official status. So, no, I cannot just go out and LIDAR map my surroundings, even though the technology is available, I'd risk going to prison.

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upvoteby embedding-shape18 hours ago|
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Is looting also not illegal in Romania already? I think the context was already "These people don't care about laws", so again there is nothing practical stopping them from doing so.
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upvoteby paganel3 hours ago|
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It already is, but it's easier to loot on the ground than to put a drone in the air, filming/recording stuff. I.e. we stil have some people trying to loot/dig in places where they shouldn't have, but we have a lot less fewer people putting unauthorised Lidar thingies in the sky. And I say that while I'm part of the local/Romanian Lidar Facebook group.
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upvoteby embedding-shape2 hours ago|
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> but we have a lot less fewer people putting unauthorised Lidar thingies in the sky

What you could know, that you have a lot less people getting caught with unauthorized Lidar drones/RCs, in Eastern Europe :) Thank you for sharing your experience none the less, but I'm not sure we should extrapolate from your experience over Mexico/Central America. You're absolutely right it's easier to loot on the ground though.

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upvoteby patcon23 hours ago|
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I would humbly suggest that perhaps the most consequential looters might be more like script kiddies than bond villains. Just vicinity and convenience
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upvoteby elil174 hours ago|
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IDK, this jungle terrain is very difficult to navigate
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upvoteby freecodeio19 hours ago|
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would be funny if they went there and it was already looted
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upvoteby RunSet22 hours ago|
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Using slop engines to loot ancient ruins is an apt metaphor for what slop engines have already done to humanity's written corpus.

For their next trick, perhaps billionaires can exhume our dearly departed and see whether they have any gold teeth or baubles worth scavenging.

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