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where is your source. How do you know that china is NOT doing that? You have no idea. Just as we have no idea that the US was building a human tracking system s
by OOvsuOO 6y ago
where is your source. How do you know that china is NOT doing that? You have no idea. Just as we have no idea that the US was building a human tracking system since 9/11 and kept it secret during the wars. Now we know.
- pmiller2 6y agoHow do you know there's not a teapot orbiting the Sun?
- gameman144 6y agoI mean, if the first nation to orbit a teapot around the sun would instantly become a nearly-unstoppable military hegemon, it would be pretty reasonable to assume that there were a secret teapot-orbiting project going on in multiple countries.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThere is no such advantage to building autonomous weapons, not at this stage. Where China is so far, their limitation isn't finding the staff to control weapons, and they don't face a situation where expandability is the main issue - their issue is mainly finishing catching up militarily. So the issue is really your premises about it making you "nearly unstoppable", it leads to no such thing. The advantage is much slimmer than you might think, especially right now. As it is, unmanned but non-autonomous weapons provide 99% of the functionality. Additionally, neither the US, Israel, the UK, or Russia are making their autonomous weapons programs secret.
- sudosysgen 6y agoSure, it's pretty simple. China doesn't have much to gain from the normalization of autonomous weapons. Beyond that, the US and Russia don't seem to be hiding their work on it, so why would China, which has even less of an incentive, be hiding it?