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Fully autonomous weapons are also a code is law problem. Ethereum is a preview of the killer robot problems of the future.

gerry_shaw 5y ago
The speed at which computers run is beyond human intuition and beyond the speed for humans to respond. A killer robot will kill everybody in range practically instantly. It would be nothing like what movies show.
- trhr 5y ago
  Fortunately for us, you can't kill someone with a CPU cycle. You need to use a servo for that. Which, while quick, are far from instant, and will always be limited by basic physics like thermal management.
- adhesive_wombat 5y ago
  Urgh, yes, that's so annoying. Skynet drones won't pepper the ground behind the hero with bullets while flying low and slow, they'll land every shot on target in milliseconds, before any human even sensed there was a threat. And they won't have a standards-compliant USB port to take over control either. The only real question is whether the machines think one bullet to the head is most efficient use of resources, one bullet per organ, or an equivalent mass of non-depleted (they don't care about radiation, the biosphere is not their problem) uranium to the target biomass.
  - flerchin 5y ago
    Machines don't currently, in any form, do their own maintenance. A killer robot army would utterly dominate the battlefield until it broke down and ran out of consumables. It would then completely stop.
    - alasdair_ 5y ago
      A GAI that is significantly smarter than a human can figure that part out on its own.
      - flerchin 5y ago
        That may be true, but current tech is so far removed from GAI that it might as well be magic.
      - trhr 5y ago
        A GAI significantly smarter than a human would lose in a battle with a NAI with the sole job of killing GAIs.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> Fully autonomous weapons are also a code is law problem. In the same way that a serial killer is a “psychopath is law” problem. The problem with both descriptions is that both use “law” to mean “something that happens and has consequences” rather than, well, law in any more specific sense.
- narrator 5y ago
  It should be obvious that a psychopathic human is different from a computer inside a killer drone.

gerry_shaw 5y ago

The speed at which computers run is beyond human intuition and beyond the speed for humans to respond. A killer robot will kill everybody in range practically instantly. It would be nothing like what movies show.

trhr 5y ago
Fortunately for us, you can't kill someone with a CPU cycle. You need to use a servo for that. Which, while quick, are far from instant, and will always be limited by basic physics like thermal management.
adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Urgh, yes, that's so annoying. Skynet drones won't pepper the ground behind the hero with bullets while flying low and slow, they'll land every shot on target in milliseconds, before any human even sensed there was a threat. And they won't have a standards-compliant USB port to take over control either. The only real question is whether the machines think one bullet to the head is most efficient use of resources, one bullet per organ, or an equivalent mass of non-depleted (they don't care about radiation, the biosphere is not their problem) uranium to the target biomass.
- flerchin 5y ago
  Machines don't currently, in any form, do their own maintenance. A killer robot army would utterly dominate the battlefield until it broke down and ran out of consumables. It would then completely stop.
  - alasdair_ 5y ago
    A GAI that is significantly smarter than a human can figure that part out on its own.
    - flerchin 5y ago
      That may be true, but current tech is so far removed from GAI that it might as well be magic.
    - trhr 5y ago
      A GAI significantly smarter than a human would lose in a battle with a NAI with the sole job of killing GAIs.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Fully autonomous weapons are also a code is law problem. In the same way that a serial killer is a “psychopath is law” problem. The problem with both descriptions is that both use “law” to mean “something that happens and has consequences” rather than, well, law in any more specific sense.

narrator 5y ago
It should be obvious that a psychopathic human is different from a computer inside a killer drone.