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I’m afraid you’ve been watching too many movies. This tech isn’t close to deployment for an infantryman.

bserge 5y ago
Should be, but what's the point of giving it to a human when it could be better used by a robot. I was amazed by this back then, there's probably better stuff by now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-rifle-brings-auto-aim-to-the-real-world/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-...
s5300 5y ago
Who needs infantrymen when you have suicide drone swarms, bunker busters, MIRV's, thermobaric weapons (vacuum bombs), instant retina frying laser disco drones... Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. Maybe frogmen will have their day or something. The future of human violence at scale is fucking terrifying. Edit: Oh, and how could I forget. Our lovely fucking sword deploying hellfire missiles https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-story-of-americas-hellfire-missile-full-of-swords/ https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-story-of-americas-hellfire-... This is where you insert the joke about studying the blade I think.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago
  > Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. I disagree. The reason we still have millions of factory workers doing jobs a robot can do, is that the human is easily trained, and easily replaced, and very cheap to run. If the human breaks, you just replace it from the endless supply of other humans. Infantry[1] is the same. Take a gun, learn how to shoot it, run at the enemy. If the solider dies, just replace it with another one from the endless supply of humans. Robots on the other hand are very expensive to replace. Until we can auto-build Terminators[2] for less than the 'cost' of a human, robots will never replace people in low skill, high churn roles. --- [1] I'm not talking about proper specialist soldiers here, just the barely-trained cannon fodder. [2] ..and we all know how that turns out.

Should be, but what's the point of giving it to a human when it could be better used by a robot. I was amazed by this back then, there's probably better stuff by now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-rifle-brings-auto-aim-to-the-real-world/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-...

s5300 5y ago

Who needs infantrymen when you have suicide drone swarms, bunker busters, MIRV's, thermobaric weapons (vacuum bombs), instant retina frying laser disco drones... Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. Maybe frogmen will have their day or something. The future of human violence at scale is fucking terrifying. Edit: Oh, and how could I forget. Our lovely fucking sword deploying hellfire missiles https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-story-of-americas-hellfire-missile-full-of-swords/ https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-story-of-americas-hellfire-... This is where you insert the joke about studying the blade I think.

mattowen_uk 5y ago
> Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. I disagree. The reason we still have millions of factory workers doing jobs a robot can do, is that the human is easily trained, and easily replaced, and very cheap to run. If the human breaks, you just replace it from the endless supply of other humans. Infantry[1] is the same. Take a gun, learn how to shoot it, run at the enemy. If the solider dies, just replace it with another one from the endless supply of humans. Robots on the other hand are very expensive to replace. Until we can auto-build Terminators[2] for less than the 'cost' of a human, robots will never replace people in low skill, high churn roles. --- [1] I'm not talking about proper specialist soldiers here, just the barely-trained cannon fodder. [2] ..and we all know how that turns out.