mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
You are correct in describing the lawless and the futility of legislating them out of existence. That doesn't mean that laws are our only defense. I'm 100% fine with slaughterbots, because the same exact kind of bot can be used to
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by mmirate 8y ago
Time to dig up and repeat some old comments of mine... I'm 100% fine with these automated killing-machines, and with the implications. (Heck, I'd be more than happy to help develop them, if I had the appropriate skillset.) Because
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by mmirate 8y ago
Or in any realm of scarce resources. (Also known as "reality".)
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by mmirate 8y ago
> If you want full function? Just don't pass/use anything that's mut. Not quite. There are still mutable globals (they just have to have to have the appropriate "I'm MT-safe" marker traits); and there's
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by mmirate 8y ago
The implementation is poor in precisely such a way that it is a powerful tool waiting to be abused out of caprice or favoritism.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Even assuming that labor becomes a post-scarce resource, what about capital resources? How would metals be allocated between current usage and robot-building? Energy, between current usage and powering these robots?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Next step: post these questions to the Stack Exchange sites from whence they were generated.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Ever since the World Wide Web became practical, all sorts of businesses have faced a choice: evolve or perish. Those newspapers made theirs.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> anti-human No moreso than Galileo or Copernicus could have been called "anti-Earth", for "refusing to properly grant the Earth its sacred superiority to all other celestial objects". At the end of the day, we humans
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by mmirate 8y ago
> extra-sensory perception, telepathy, etc. Eh? Barring brain implants that have yet to be invented, these are in the realm of fantasy/quackery/pseudoscience.
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by mmirate 8y ago
How could any of this work without post-scarcity? (which is at best a pipe-dream)
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by mmirate 8y ago
No, that source highlights exactly why the horribly authoritarian tendencies of the West Coast and NYC make those cultures undesirable.
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by mmirate 8y ago
A city's land is a scarce resource. It cannot just be doled out to anyone who "wants it". The whole problem of resource allocation is why we have capitalism in the first place.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Luckily in this modern day we have the luxury of grep -re '(Joe Schmoe|John Doe)'
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by mmirate 9y ago
Why wouldn't the increased electricity demands negate most of the environmental benefits of hybrids versus similarly-sized fuel-burning vehicles? The same work is being done to the vehicle cabin, no matter whether the fossil fuels are
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by mmirate 9y ago
> has a lead foot Also known as: isn't being paid-by-the-hour to make whatever trip he/she is making at the moment.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Wouldn't larger engines still draw more power at idle, though?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Would it be any less saddening to depend on the whim of an uneducated, innumerate and manipulable mob?
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by mmirate 9y ago
As usual, the devil is in the details. These are drones, not nukes. Nukes have effects for miles away and are so powerful that their detonations cannot be shaped at all; whereas suicide-drones have to fly directly to their target and reach
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by mmirate 9y ago
Yes and thoroughly yes. Because our military's allegiance is to the Constitution not to any single executive administration; because the military have far more resources to purchase bots or counterbots than the police do; and because o
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by mmirate 9y ago
It would appear that your sarcasm went undetected.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Because you have no way of knowing, beforehand, an intruder's exact intentions.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Answer A: in the case that you think you can publish at just the right time such that every political party would have enough time to master the tech before the next election cycle. Answer B: in the case that you can charge exorbitantly for
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by mmirate 9y ago
If this technology becomes practical and we don't have the military applications figured out, other nations will. Sorry Citizen, you must speak German now, Changeover Day was yesterday.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> It means, for example, that if you have to go to war, and sometimes you probably have to go to war—I'm not talking about a belligerent country starting war or fomenting discord, but if you have to go to war and to engage infantry—
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by mmirate 9y ago
The question, as always, is what did those people do to earn the food with which to not starve? (Many people do just fine by producing things of value and engaging in voluntary acts of trade.)
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by mmirate 9y ago
Your words are true at face value.
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by mmirate 9y ago
There's an old saying about fools and their money...
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by mmirate 9y ago
That is one of many arguments that we should cease to be so socialistic.

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