[extropy-chat] 70% oppose resumption of military conscription

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'd like to
> point
> out also that there are absolutely NO robot control laws in existence
> at the current time. This is a golden age to build your own equipment
> (expandable and upgradable, of course) so that your own robot army
> gets
> grandfathered when the busybodies get around to promoting anti-robot
> hate propaganda.

Technically, an armed robot will fall under weapons laws.  It doesn't
matter if there's a robotic trigger: a gun is a gun (although probably
a unique model of gun, so laws against specific models of guns, rather
than classifying by properties or functions, might not cover your robot
soldier).

> When the stormtroopers come to your door to take your toys away, you
> will have your own stormtroopers to meet them head on. All those who
> complain that gun owners can't fight against a military with jet
> fighters is sorely wrong, if those gun owners have their robot
> armies...

More to the point: a jet fighter has a hard time arresting people,
taking cities, et cetera.  That falls to the infantry, as it always
has...and it is there that the military has been finding particular
reluctance to recruitment.  Many of the robots there are also, and
possibly more profitably, also marketable to law enforcement.  (That's
a hint if you want to google for what's already available, and thus
what to watch out for if you want to worry about these things.)