Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by Judgmentality on Sunday March 14, 2021 @01:56PM
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It seems pretty obvious to me this is a slippery slope, and humans won't be in the loop forever. When you're already using weapons to kill your enemies, it's pretty easy to justify killing them easier when your goal is just to kill them already. It even gives them plausible deniability over individual deaths (not that it should, but it will).
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Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by SavantIdiot on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:02PM
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There's a funny Asimov short story about improving technology for guided missiles. The solution: put a pilot in each guided missle. The entire story is tongue-in-cheek, but characterizes the ebb and flow between ethics and military technology.
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by vijayr02 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @04:43PM
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If people are interested, the story is “The Feeling of Power” [0]. I remember reading this as a child and feeling a profound feeling of sadness. Now I tell myself I’m older and more cynical, but being reminded of it brought a rush of those feelings back... human memory is a strange thing.
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by holbue on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:19PM
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I didn't know about the story yet, but the reality was already very close to that terrible scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349
(One of the launch sites is quite close to where I live)
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by ceejayoz on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:24PM
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That looks like the pilot was intended to survive.
A better comparison would be the Japanese approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by evgen on Sunday March 14, 2021 @06:05PM
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More specifically, the Ohka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7_Ohka
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by owyn on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:13PM
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Back in WW2 the US worked on pigeon guided bombs but it never got very far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Re:Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones rai...
by beaconstudios on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:38PM
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And the Japanese had torpedoes with actual pilots https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten