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Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.
by k__ 6mo ago
Maybe 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.