Google.com/killer-robots.txt

Re:Google.com/killer-robots.txt by ddebernardy on Friday July 04, 2014 @11:33AM (#7989157)

Or not. Try to picture yourself minding your own business, and then the next thing you know your neighborhood is stormed by soulless metallic murderers striking from the air and on land.

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Re:Google.com/killer-robots.txt by riffraff on Friday July 04, 2014 @11:40AM (#7989187)

I saw an interesting discussion about this some years ago.

One of the person involved pointed out that yes, it does feel worrying to think that a soulless machine may not feel anything while killing people.

But on the other hand, if robots were used in place of people, the nanking massacre[0] would likely not have happened. It has historically required humans to really fuck up things.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

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Re:Google.com/killer-robots.txt by jimmaswell on Friday July 04, 2014 @06:23PM (#7990393)

Is that any worse than if it were humans doing the storming? Probably better because robots aren't going to do extra damage outside the scope of their orders.

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