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What could go wrong with remote control technology over our important military assets? Of course the answer is a lot, especially in wartime. For all the paranoi

What could go wrong with remote control technology over our important military assets? Of course the answer is a lot, especially in wartime. For all the paranoid people thinking that the military or police or whatever US security service will take over the country in a secret coup, the people who make up those forces are an important bulwark against tyranny from within or without. It's very dangerous to be a pilot and a soldier but as a software engineer I don't know how I could ever feel safe in a world without people making decisions about how to use weapons.

2020-3030 9y ago
You are absolutely correct about the need for people to be making decisions. A small number of people have already averted what could have been global nuclear war (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-soviet-submarine-captain-who-averted-nuclear-war-awarded-future-of-life-prize https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/27/vasili-arkhi... and other similar articles and especially item #8 on this list http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/18/13-times-the-world-came-close-to-nuclear-war-6013942/ http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/18/13-times-the-world-came-close-...)