onedoesnotjust t1_iugjo6v wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:44 AM

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It is very cool and scary. This is the future of war.

jimbolikescr t1_iuh7gi5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:10 AM

Well, maybe 🤔. Seems to me, robots, once used, will have made humans obsolete on the battlefield. Humans will not be going to war like now. It won't be possible to compete with the a machine designed to kill you. Then it'll be robots on robots, which is just pointless. We've finally finished war! 🥳

beef-o-lipso t1_iuhn1pd wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:23 PM

Hah. The land still has to be taken and thst means involving people. War is here to stay, sadly. And war without killing is rugby.

jimbolikescr t1_iuhqemr wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:54 PM

They don't want the land. They want the people.

beef-o-lipso t1_iuhvn3j wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:37 PM

Quibble. My point stands.

It would be nice if a sideeffect of robot armies was an end to humans killing humans in war, but that is not likely to happen. The cost is too low.

mmarollo t1_iuiujec wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:37 PM

Lol! You sweet sweet naive soul.

jimbolikescr t1_iuiwg2i wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:50 PM

No, you're just playing a tired old part: doomsday spouting nay-sayer. In order for there to be war, people have to be willing and able to fight one. But most people these days aren't able, due to many societal reasons, to fight a war. If they start using robots to fight humans on a battlefield, you won't be able to dress it up in any way that you would get people to be willing either.