How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over

Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by erikpukinskis on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:33PM (#10721156)

Are you suggesting there is something about drones that makes them fundamentally inaccurate? It would seem to be that advancements in computer vision will solve that problem in short order. Particularly with the VR industry introducing strong incentives for marginal improvements on image-based tracking.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by ugexe on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:50PM (#10721220)

Newton's third law; Hence the comment about drone size/weight and mentioning the small caliber weapon it would have to use.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by cma on Saturday December 12, 2015 @01:41AM (#10722027)

It could expand out a big frill along a plane perpendicular to the shot when firing to transfer the kickback momentum to the air.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by XorNot on Saturday December 12, 2015 @05:40AM (#10722348)

We already drop quarter of a million dollar bombs to kill single targets. Having a drone which turns into a disposable rocket to hit a single target is hardly unfeasible.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by cma on Saturday December 12, 2015 @07:39AM (#10722562)

They are still going to optimize everything, something that can fire X number of shots instead of being a one-off rocket will stretch their budget farther, etc.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by XorNot on Saturday December 12, 2015 @09:36PM (#10725178)

Right, but that wasn't the point - the point was that thusfar, the appeals to mechanical limitations of drones as weapons of war have been based on very limited thinking.

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