[ExI] state of conflict technology

[William Flynn Wallace]

 I think a good case could be made that it's immoral to work on dumb bombs
not smart ones.

 John K Clark

Whatever happened to just zapping them with a laser from orbit?  Because it
would open a whole different can of worms?  bill w

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 5:12 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:16 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> Recently we saw a fulfilment of a dream.  We saw persistent conflict
>> between two nations.  The more advanced nation fired one missile and took
>> out one military leader and his staff.  The enraged victim nation very
>> carefully fired back 15 missiles but hit nothing.  Intense but very
>> localized destruction, low loss of life, few of the traditional well-known
>> horrors of war.*
>
>
> Good point. That's why I don't understand those who say it's immoral to
> work on killer robots that use AI like the recent Google employee who
> resigned in protest:
>
> Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities
> <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/15/ex-google-worker-fears-killer-robots-cause-mass-atrocities>
>
> Does anyone seriously think it would be better to go back to carpet
> bombing like we had during World War 2? Judging from the above article
> apparently so, but the non-nuclear firebombing of Tokyo on March 9 1945
> with non-AI bombs killed at least 125,000 people and was almost certainly
> the bloodiest 6 hours in human history. I think a good case could be made
> that it's immoral to work on dumb bombs not smart ones.
>
>  John K Clark
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