[ExI] RES: future of warfare again, was: RE: Forking

[Henrique Moraes Machado]

<Anders Sandberg>
 This is not necessarily a good thing from an evolutionary psychology
 perspective. Military psychology has been struggling to train away normal
 (likely evolved) inhibitions against hurting other people for a long time.
But
 doing warfare remotely and automated likely gets rid of a lot of
inhibitions
 directly - no direct personal connection to the target, various framing
effects,
 biases in moral cognition (consider the switch vs. the footbridge cases of
the
 trolley problem), plenty of room for diffusion of responsibility and
Milgram-
 experiment-like phenomena.
 Like nonlethal weapons it might lower the threshold for engaging in deadly
 violence.
</Anders Sandberg>

We've been training our kids and ourselves for battle with videogames for
some time now. When wars become videogames, we'll all be warriors.