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[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

This is honestly the reason why I don't think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

If it comes to that, which hopefully it doesn't, we should remember lessons from Vietnam and Iraq. The US Military might be massively overpowered, but it can still struggle against a well-organized insurgency.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc.... are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc....

However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc... We're probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 8 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Unless they're maintaining the software themselves, there's no such thing as perfectly loyal. In the past the revolutionaries needed to capture the armory, now they need to capture / subvert the servers / programmers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Well we're obviously in the right place for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh shit this just got a lot more cyberpunk lol. Now I'm picturing Boston Dynamics robots being hacked by anti-fascist black hats...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

It's true... but with all things it's a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal... IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

Plus, it's far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no "need to know" what these robots do when they leave your office

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

If it's got that kind of capability, it can be hacked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago

Naw it's white folk that want to get their magic cards