Thanks for articulating so eloquently what I failed to communicate in [0]. Great post. Moreover, I feel we may have been horribly misled by Asimov's vision of r

Thanks for articulating so eloquently what I failed to communicate in [0]. Great post. Moreover, I feel we may have been horribly misled by Asimov's vision of robots. Come to think about it what we really need is not machines to be our slaves and fight our wars, but rather more intelligent animals. Perhaps biotechnology can deliver some kind of clever ape that can be useful around the house and do some fighting or carry ammunition in battlefield too. Yeah, I know unethical and all that. All these qualms will die instantly the moment a country is able to field a conventional army boosted with such apes. US has already done that as a matter of fact using mine-carrying seals / dolphins in WWII. And I know for a fact that a NATO army has plans to use pigs to clear minefields. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495440