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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by fvdessen on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:14AM (#17065695)
I don't really see the threat considering how much cheaper and more effective it is to give that weapon to a young man rather than mounting it on that expensive robot.
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by raisedbyninjas on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:55PM (#17067088)
The threat is to anybody who those in power label the out-group. For too many people, risking lives of the the "good guys" is the only cost weighed for violence.
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by monkeynotes on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:57PM (#17067107)
Tell that to the guy balancing the military pension and medical compensation books.
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by empath75 on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:15AM (#17065700)
Its a lot easier to find robots willing to massacre innocent people.
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by BrainInAJar on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:26AM (#17065798)
That's demonstrably false
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by leot on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:40AM (#17065912)
ICBMs?
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by fixermark on Monday May 14, 2018 @01:11PM (#17067249)
I believe that's BrainInAJar's point: the number of people killed by regular ol' humans with weapons of war is massively dwarfed by the number killed by drones. ICBMs (to my knowledge?) haven't actually been launched in a war ever, so their kill-count is "0".
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Re:Boston Dynamics will start selling its dog-like SpotMini ... by nbeleski on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:30AM (#17065830)
This solves the General problem, from Bertolt Brecht's poem :)
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