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>where the three prison system volunteer shooters were It's strange to me that this isn't simply automated, although personally I don't think any state should
by duxup 2y ago
>where the three prison system volunteer shooters were
It's strange to me that this isn't simply automated, although personally I don't think any state should be in the business of killing anyone outside of war and similar circumstances. I don't think states are capable of making these sorts of decisions accurately enough.
- bbor 2y agoGood instinct -- this is absolutely being explored in the academy[1], and IMO it's only a matter of time before Palantir, Anduril, or even Sauron (yes, all real companies interested in ideas like this...) start pitching such a product to the government. Besides the arguments I gave above for a firing squad being philosophically superior, it's just clearly way cheaper and way less likely to go wrong, especially if you don't even need to find three prison guards who are ready and able to shoot accurately. [1] Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions—and Why Such Automation Must Be Prevented: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5146574 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5146574