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Pluvious

(4,312 posts) Tue Dec 5, 2017, 02:11 PM Dec 2017

Fear The Future - Slaughterbots

Join the movement to ban lethal autonomous weapons

http://autonomousweapons.org

(Dramatized potential near future, unless it's stopped)

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Fear The Future - Slaughterbots (Original Post) Pluvious Dec 2017 OP

Chilling. Hopefully global climate collapse will save us from that future. nt Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #1

Pretty brilliant piece. byronius Dec 2017 #2

Entertaining but kooky. Same thing made the RW blog rounds a few weeks back. FreepFryer Dec 2017 #3

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. Chilling. Hopefully global climate collapse will save us from that future. nt

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2017, 02:20 PM

Dec 2017

byronius

(7,395 posts)

2. Pretty brilliant piece.

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Tue Dec 5, 2017, 03:33 PM

Dec 2017

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)

3. Entertaining but kooky. Same thing made the RW blog rounds a few weeks back.

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2017, 05:29 PM

Dec 2017

Rather than 'slaughterbots' of this sort, existential threats that I'm a lot more practically concerned about are 1. nuclear war, 2. the diminishment of the rule of law through propaganda, selective law enforcement and other ongoing erosions in civil liberties along racial, political or other lines.

Only once you get down to around 15. or so do I start to be concerned about the use of domestic AI drones.

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