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The concept of proxy fight is not new, it is probably as old as humanity. Bible had David vs Goliath. Maya used a variation of soccer to solve military conflict
by wetpaws 8y ago
The concept of proxy fight is not new, it is probably as old as humanity. Bible had David vs Goliath. Maya used a variation of soccer to solve military conflicts. (You can see it depicted on temple walls). You are focused on "destroying" part, but in fact it is only a part of the warfare, and a very expensive one. (Part of the reason why we see progressively less and less large scale conflicts is because we are growing more and more economically interconnected and a cost of open warfare just not worth it anymore)
- simion314 8y agoI would love to see politicians or generals fight directly, but this does not happen at all , we see proxy wars where powers A and B fight indirectly by getting involved in some country C conflict. I do not believe that if we get AI robots involved we will not see bombs land on bridges,as recently as the war in Yugoslavia bombs were droped on economic targets: "NATO bombed strategic economic and societal targets, such as bridges, military facilities, official government facilities, and factories, using long-range cruise missiles to hit heavily defended targets, such as strategic installations in Belgrade and Pristina." Are you imagining 2 robot teams fighting each other and the winner gets the loser resources and impose it's politics, the population will accept that their robots lost ?