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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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