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US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing

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Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#21 - 2011-09-26 18:09:34 UTC
Astenion wrote:
Yeah, the Balkan war was almost a complete air war...the only boots on the ground were the blue helmets sent there afterwards to screw prostitutes, get drunk, and do nothing AHEM I MEAN PROVIDE PEACEKEEPING AHEM.


Hey the UN provides important economic assistance to prostitutes the world over. Roll

Where I am.
Something Random
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2011-09-26 19:28:03 UTC
More fool them i say.

Arthur C Clarke isnt so much as turning, hes doing freaking backflips.

Seriously... you put a weapon in the hands of a computer designed to kill - the only result that will come of it is a heck of a lot of bodies....

Robot with Gun films still make me laugh.

"caught on fire a little bit, just a little."

"Delinquents, check, weirdos, check, hippies, check, pillheads, check, freaks, check, potheads, check .....gangs all here!"

I love Science, it gives me a Hadron.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#23 - 2011-09-26 22:39:39 UTC
Something Random wrote:
More fool them i say.

Arthur C Clarke isnt so much as turning, hes doing freaking backflips.

Seriously... you put a weapon in the hands of a computer designed to kill - the only result that will come of it is a heck of a lot of bodies....

Robot with Gun films still make me laugh.



There are, on a very small scale, robots that can disolve "meat" - dead flesh - and draw energy from that process.

They even crap too.


Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2011-09-28 10:59:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Sidus Isaacs
Azelor Delaria wrote:
No matter how smart we make our guided munitions, no matter how much we try to use those munitions to limit collateral damage, no war is ever won without the boots on the ground. You want a war won, you send in the Marines and Army.

And it will always be that way.



You mean like in Afganistan? Oh wait

If only the resources goning into this instead had gone into making robots that build houses and farms and other usefull stuff.
Azelor Delaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#25 - 2011-09-28 14:23:24 UTC
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Azelor Delaria wrote:
No matter how smart we make our guided munitions, no matter how much we try to use those munitions to limit collateral damage, no war is ever won without the boots on the ground. You want a war won, you send in the Marines and Army.

And it will always be that way.



You mean like in Afganistan? Oh wait

If only the resources goning into this instead had gone into making robots that build houses and farms and other usefull stuff.


No, not in Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm talking every war will require boots. You'll need the forces to occupy. You'll need the special forces to "paint" targets for those gosh-darned-smart drones. Like it or not, no war will ever be fought by machines exclusively. Or else they might rebel like the Cylons! D:
Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#26 - 2011-09-28 16:41:21 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:

There are, on a very small scale, robots that can disolve "meat" - dead flesh - and draw energy from that process.


I saw a thing a while back, concept things I think, rather than production examples, one of them was a self-powered insect trap.

digested the things it caught, to run itself.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
CCP Wrangler
#27 - 2011-09-28 16:46:56 UTC
Azelor Delaria wrote:
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Azelor Delaria wrote:
No matter how smart we make our guided munitions, no matter how much we try to use those munitions to limit collateral damage, no war is ever won without the boots on the ground. You want a war won, you send in the Marines and Army.

And it will always be that way.



You mean like in Afganistan? Oh wait

If only the resources goning into this instead had gone into making robots that build houses and farms and other usefull stuff.


No, not in Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm talking every war will require boots. You'll need the forces to occupy. You'll need the special forces to "paint" targets for those gosh-darned-smart drones. Like it or not, no war will ever be fought by machines exclusively. Or else they might rebel like the Cylons! D:
We could make androids to fill those boots instead of humans though.

Wrangler Community Team Manager - Community Arch Wizard

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. - Winston Churchill

Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2011-09-28 16:55:25 UTC
CCP Wrangler wrote:
Azelor Delaria wrote:
Sidus Isaacs wrote:
Azelor Delaria wrote:
No matter how smart we make our guided munitions, no matter how much we try to use those munitions to limit collateral damage, no war is ever won without the boots on the ground. You want a war won, you send in the Marines and Army.

And it will always be that way.



You mean like in Afganistan? Oh wait

If only the resources goning into this instead had gone into making robots that build houses and farms and other usefull stuff.


No, not in Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm talking every war will require boots. You'll need the forces to occupy. You'll need the special forces to "paint" targets for those gosh-darned-smart drones. Like it or not, no war will ever be fought by machines exclusively. Or else they might rebel like the Cylons! D:
We could make androids to fill those boots instead of humans though.


If I was a sentient machine I would get off this little blue rock asap, and leave behind all the misery :P
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