<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 3:03 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:09 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div>"<span>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.</span>"
</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope that we will have legal bans on such weapons, but I have my doubts... <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUGbaUu7os" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUGbaUu7os</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>John </div>
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