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We don't need to imagine, someone already did. Just search for "Slaughterbots".
by bostik 5y ago
We don't need to imagine, someone already did. Just search for "Slaughterbots".
- matheusmoreira 5y agoHoly shit that's horrifying. You can depopulate a whole country with that and then just move into it.
- imtringued 5y agoAccording to my napkin math it would cost 1.5 trillion USD to kill every American with drones and I am already assuming very cheap and capable ones, that you deploy them near the target and that the target is incapable of defending itself. The cost of deployment itself isn't even included. Nuclear weapons are very cheap in comparison.
- bostik 5y agoLet's put that number in context. USD 1.5T is 2/3 (or 3/4) of the total cost US spent on their forever war in Afghanistan.[0,1] Clearly doable for a dedicated nation, given that US lost the war, lost the 20 years, and with their botched withdrawal handed the country back to the very same political power they wanted to drive out in the first place. In comparison, spending less than the cost of a lost war and having a guaranteed result of being able to walk into an empty territory sounds like a bargain. 0: https://theconversation.com/calculating-the-costs-of-the-afghanistan-war-in-lives-dollars-and-years-164588 https://theconversation.com/calculating-the-costs-of-the-afg... 1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47391821 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47391821
- belter 5y ago"Slaughterbots": https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA