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The last thing the defence industry wants is for governments to spend less on warfare. If these robots ever get deployed to a battlefield it'll be as something
by onion2k 5y ago
The last thing the defence industry wants is for governments to spend less on warfare. If these robots ever get deployed to a battlefield it'll be as something like mechanised landmines or assistive tech for warfighters, not a replacement for existing tech.
- yholio 5y agoThe total costs will not go down, but the effectiveness increases substantially until everyone "has to have" the same expensive technology and funding cannot possibly be diminished lest our country becomes vulnerable. The dreaded "arms race" doing its thing since the dawn of humanity.
- PontifexMinimus 5y agoThe issue is not technology, it is that some states have objectives that're irreconcilable with other states. For example, Russia and China both want to conquer other countries (e.g. Ukraine, Taiwan), something that many countries are against (obviously including the ones threatened with being conquered).