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Protein based slaughterbots cost USD $4k a month to hire, and $2k to arm, house, and feed. And they've been on battlefields for much longer.
by baybal2 6y ago
Protein based slaughterbots cost USD $4k a month to hire, and $2k to arm, house, and feed.
And they've been on battlefields for much longer.
- ceejayoz 6y agoThey have an intermittent tendency to have human emotions like "I should not commit a war crime", though.
- baybal2 6y agoIntermittent at most
- nkrisc 6y agoYou can find many without that particular constraint, if history is any evidence.
- ceejayoz 6y agoMy use of the word "intermittent" was intentional, yes. My point: you're not going to find many drones like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov in the foreseeable future.
- scrollaway 6y agoYou're talking about the ones that can't fly and can't be manufactured by the millions by anyone with the right amount of money?
- heavyset_go 6y agoThey're in luck, because as long as there are people who aren't born into means there will be a steady supply of people who choose to join the military over other pursuits.
- imtringued 6y agoYou can't manufacture military drones by the millions. It's also failing to actually realize military objectives. The problem isn't delivering bullets or explosives to the target, it's finding the target in the first place. Drone surveillance is a much bigger threat than killer drones. You are more likely to be thrown into prison because of drone technology than being killed.