[ExI] Film: Monsters of Man

[John Grigg]

I can imagine third world dictators using cheap knock off land drone
infantry to terrorize their own populations. But of course Russia and China
will have them too, not just for external wars, but in case the citizenry
get ideas about rising up.

On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 3:03 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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