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You make the counter-argument that their enemies will make the same argument to their populations, which lowers the bar for armed conflict on every side, and in
by sbarre 11y ago
You make the counter-argument that their enemies will make the same argument to their populations, which lowers the bar for armed conflict on every side, and increases the odds of war coming to your homefront.
- sitkack 11y agoThe only safe answer is for every country to invade the rest of the world immediately.
- ethanbond 11y agoThis is exactly why I'm afraid of this future. If the richest nation can send their robots to rape and pillage other countries with no threat to their own population, why wouldn't they? It took public outrage over lost lives for us (the US) to pull out of a war that we were already losing (Vietnam). I can't imagine what it'd take if we were winning and not dying.
- sbarre 11y ago> If the richest nation can send their robots to rape and pillage other countries with no threat to their own population, why wouldn't they? You're basically describing the US's drone war in the Middle East today. And think of how little resistance there is to that.
- flashman 11y agoWell the robots probably wouldn't rape or pillage...
- sangnoir 11y agoMaybe "Drawn and quartered", but that entirely depends on the programming the warlord prefares. After all, AIs might become the Kalashnikov's of the future: every self-respecting warlord has a gold-plated one.