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"drones don't kill people, people kill people" - AUVSI, in the future
by cornchips 10y ago
"drones don't kill people, people kill people"
- AUVSI, in the future
- cm2187 10y agoI am not arguing that drones should be banned. But I'm just surprised it hasn't happened already.
- Leon 10y agoI think you are right; and what you're saying reminds me of a story from Malcolm Gladwell about the 1981 Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron tournament [1] that Doug Lenat won. He used some type of genetic algorithm (he never released his source) to find that swarming the challenger with many small boats would dominate as a tactic. Miniature swarms, which drones are cheap enough and more than capable for, are not a tactic that people are use to. I fear that a swarm could be terrible in its destruction if used to hurt people, individually targeted or for mass harm. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/how-david-beats-goliath#/9 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/how-david-beats...
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- CamperBob2 10y agoSame idea as Gen. Paul Van Riper's strategy in the Millennium Challenge war games ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 ). He spammed the enemy with cheap speedboats and motorcycles, forcing the organizers to rewrite the rules to make the game "fair."
- cm2187 10y agoI guess a cloud of drones can probably be shot down with some sort of EMP. It's unclear to me how to ensure the EMP is powerful enough to go through the shields of the drone without damaging the systems of the warship it protects.
- deleted_soon 10y agoBoth of these articles are fascinating - underdogs with clearly superior strategies dominate, and rather than learning from that, the powers that be just change the rules to prove themselves right. How shortsighted