• @[email protected]
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    Testing armed robot dogs in the Middle East instead of the US is pretty telling.

    Can’t be accidentally murdering Americans with a software glitch.

          • @[email protected]
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            Don’t worry, no danger of killing real people in the Middle East. All the “collateral damage” will be brown people, not Americans. They’ll have all the kinks ironed out and will make sure that the AI doesn’t hurt white targets before the technology is distributed to every national police district.

            I wish this post even deserved a /s.

    • @[email protected]
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      Which is wild when you add perspective using facts like the police in the US are less disciplined than troops overseas and tbe US still uses substances banned by the Geneva Convention on its civilian population. So if even the US wwon’t test it on their own people, it’s bad.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West
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        Listen, the Geneva convention only specifies what we can’t use on enemies, okay? As long as the targets are technically friendlies, it’s fair game!

        • @[email protected]
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          GC is for war and soldiers are combatants and not criminals by default (switching can happen easily). As an example Hollowpoint against criminals is okay as it can protect surrounding bystanders.

          It’s a bit weird, but for countries war is different from domestic problems.

  • @[email protected]
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    Okay, but if it doesn’t say “You have thirty seconds to comply” before shooting someone then what’s the point?

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      Oh it was already tremendously fucked. This is just gravy on top.

      Fuckin killbots. Coming soon to the 1033 program and thus, your local police department. The Boston Dynamics: Wardog!

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      We should never have moved away from sticks and stones tbh. Anything that works at long range makes people misunderstand what war is. War needs to look disgusting, because the more clean and automated it looks, the less horrible it looks to people spectacting it. But it is indeed just as horrible as beating someone to death with a rock.

    • @[email protected]
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      I remember some kinda skit about sci Fi authors writing about how bad a torture matrix would be ironically inspiring real people to create the torture matrix cause it’s the future.

      • Flying Squid
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        I mean, I’d rather not be hunted down by an AI robot dog, but you do you.

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          It’s happening anyway. We build them. Others build them in response because they have to. The sophistication of killbots will increase. Terrorists will get hold of them eventually. They’ll be hacked and turned on their handlers and/or civilians.

          All this is on top of ever increasing climate catastrophe. Look at Appalachia. The topography of those mountains was just rewritten. Whole towns erased like they were never there.

          • Flying Squid
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            44 days ago

            That’s not a reason for me to want it to happen. Which was your original post’s suggestion.

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              My first post was about letting the army fuck around and find out. Let the natural course of events remind them of those scifi movies they forgot about.

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                  Thousands at least. The more effective the killbots are the more money our war economy will throw at warbot R&D.

                  This is happening. Nothing on this planet can stop it.

  • @[email protected]
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    dont worry first they test it where civil lives dont matter and once it passes some basic tests, they will become available for domestic (ab)use

    • @[email protected]
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      Well you see, the owners know you won’t die for them anymore, but now they’re able to take you out of the equation. Don’t even need poors to conquer the world. It’s really a great deal for them.