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We really are trying our best to make Terminator reality aren't we?
by outside2344 6mo ago
We really are trying our best to make Terminator reality aren't we?
- kakacik 6mo agoThere was never any other option, given the direction of progress and basic human nature. I know I know, but this and that and not me nor you, yet here we are and this is just beginning.
- k__ 6mo agoMaybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.
- theptip 6mo agoThey will certainly make human soldiers unviable. (I draw mostly dystopian conclusions from that prediction.)
- throwaway85825 6mo agoOr it will just lead to lopsided massacres like the maxim gun did.
- intheitmines 6mo ago“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877
- outside2344 6mo agoShould write a MIT case study on that in "Bad Hypotheses 101"
- dguest 6mo agoIf only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead. If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.
- Terr_ 6mo agoIt's hard to explain without spoilers, but Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power (1958) is relevant to this concept of warfare.
- kelvinjps10 6mo agoThey are being operated by humans
- scarmig 6mo agoBut imagine the efficiencies to be gained if you swapped out the direct human operator with an automated operator. Then, you can have teams of automated operators being operated by a single human!
- yread 6mo agoOn the plus side there is now quite a lot of drone on drone combat saving people's lives