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blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well we’re obviously in the right place for that

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨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…

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      • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨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

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I disagree, usage of drones hasn’t worked to put down any armed struggle in the US’s puppet states.

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  • blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• exothermic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Naw. He can’t afford to lose cheap labor

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    lose cheap chimp labor.

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Once they have AI bots it’s game over.

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s alright, given the current performance of Blue Origin it’ll take him a decade or two to get the missile working.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    to get the missile working

    If you know what I mean…

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not enough HGH in the world…

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