I’ll praise it in the hopes that our eventual robot overlords remember and have mercy on me.
In all seriousness though, from the very moment someone strapped a camera to an industrial robot in a random car parts plant somewhere in Ohio 20 years ago, this became inevitable.
I’m not worried about that either. It just comes down to who can produce more and better robots, which is a version of large-scale warfare as it’s been since WWI, at least.
Probably there will be qualitative differences this time, although I can only guess in what way. If it ends up being robots vs. robots maybe war will get less deadly. Then again, some of the WWI artillery pioneers said similar things, and that certainly didn’t work out.
Once the robots are able to maintain and fully operate themselves I’ll be worried (like, massively). AFAIK these are basically an RC car with a gun and some target tracking, though, which isn’t so different from an AFV at a purely tactical level, and actually could be improvised, to some degree.
Civilian rebels not having big supplies of other kinds has proven to be an obstacle, but not decisive. You just move to where the fancy weapons aren’t, and mess with the supply of items and labour they need to keep running.
Out of everything going on, digital surveillance networks seem like the biggest threat to the age of guerillas, by far.
We praise the machine that is not used against us yet.
Careful what you praise.
I’ll praise it in the hopes that our eventual robot overlords remember and have mercy on me.
In all seriousness though, from the very moment someone strapped a camera to an industrial robot in a random car parts plant somewhere in Ohio 20 years ago, this became inevitable.
You noble Machine Spirit is someone else’s Abominable Intelligence…
I’m not worried about that either. It just comes down to who can produce more and better robots, which is a version of large-scale warfare as it’s been since WWI, at least.
Probably there will be qualitative differences this time, although I can only guess in what way. If it ends up being robots vs. robots maybe war will get less deadly. Then again, some of the WWI artillery pioneers said similar things, and that certainly didn’t work out.
Yeah but the civilian rebels don’t have robots like this.
Once the robots are able to maintain and fully operate themselves I’ll be worried (like, massively). AFAIK these are basically an RC car with a gun and some target tracking, though, which isn’t so different from an AFV at a purely tactical level, and actually could be improvised, to some degree.
Civilian rebels not having big supplies of other kinds has proven to be an obstacle, but not decisive. You just move to where the fancy weapons aren’t, and mess with the supply of items and labour they need to keep running.
Out of everything going on, digital surveillance networks seem like the biggest threat to the age of guerillas, by far.