[ExI] Film: Monsters of Man

[William Flynn Wallace]

It terrifies me as well.  From that baseball movie Field of Dreams: "If you
build it they will come."  If such gadgets are made, someone will use them,
just like we are now awaiting renegades./terrorists to get their hands on
enough plutonium.  bill w

bill w

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:09 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> "A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up
> with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy
> four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp
> in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one
> would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal
> slaughter and become prime targets."
>
> Somehow aerial drones killing people with missiles, is something I can
> tolerate. But the idea of land-based robot infantry/special forces like
> this truly horrifies me. I find this scenario to be the beginning of hell
> on Earth. And in time we will get "moving minefields" that wait to
> activate, and then follow you until they are in killing range to explode.
> Oh, and don't forget mosquito sized or smaller flying robots that inject
> deadly poison! Human beings, especially in the third world, will be
> terrorized by such weapons. And then eventually we will have the nanobot
> utility fog of death.
>
> I hope that we will have legal bans on such weapons, but I have my
> doubts...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUGbaUu7os
>
> John
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