[extropy-chat] Re: The Hidden Luddite was Re: peak oil debate

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Adrian Tymes writes:
> They do, however, have controllers and programmers.  The military is
> being *extremely* careful to make sure that a human commander can
> always stop a robot soldier from doing harm - and even with the video
> screen distancing effect, those commanders will still know who they're
> going against.

I doubt this.  We saw examples in the Iraq war where we would bomb far-away 
targets based on an anonymous tip only to find out that the tip was false 
and that we just bombed friendlies.  I also doubt that any smarts will be 
given to a robot to keep it from disobeying a direct order to attack just 
because it thinks the targets are not the enemy.  The military mindset is 
more on enforcing the chain of command than allowing every soldier to think 
for themselves.  This will even be more so when humans are commanding 
machines. 

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