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On the bright side, you don't need to bomb everyone. Future wars could be more efficient.
by searchableguy 6y ago
On the bright side, you don't need to bomb everyone. Future wars could be more efficient.
- sixothree 6y agoIf "winning" is what you care about.
- cakeface 6y agoI think that this is a great point. It's also a little scary when you think about the data sets that exist out there for advertising. Any way that someone targets an ad could be the selection criteria for these efficient wars. My next thought is that programmers do have an opportunity to take moral stands against some of these things. We can't stop someone somewhere from building these terrible things but we might be able to make it harder by preventing huge problematic privacy invading data sets from existing.
- chongli 6y agoBut that lowers the deterrence factor. If you’ve got lethal drones that can target any individual you want then who needs war when you can establish a totalitarian state? Just eliminate all of your enemies with drones and use them to keep the population firmly under your heel.
- sudosysgen 6y agoBut then your enemies also drones you, and so does the popualtion. They're pretty easy to make and import.