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 WalterBright on Saturday December 12, 2015 @01:49AM (#10722043)

> In the latter half of the 20th century

This is an odd statement. In my reading of historical battles, I've never seen a mention of the idea that soldiers before 1950 did not shoot to kill when ordered to.

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Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro... by graeme on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:27AM (#10722086)

I've seen this figure before, and read that they changed firing range practices after the war to make killing more automatic. This was in Gwynne Dyer's "War", and he's normally reliable.

However, the original statistic is apparently from a not so credible source, a study by SLA Marshall in WWII that's not so well regarded. This thread goes into some depth:

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get_t...

Not sure what the truth of it is.

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