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Er, killbots that refuse an order to kill innocents sound good. Killbots that can, under any circumstances, wilfully kill their masters seem like a bad idea.



Er, killbots of any kind sound bad.


The HIMARS rockets and Storm Shadows we send to Ukraine are fairly close to killbots. You give the coordinates and off they go.


An antipersonnel mine is the simplest kill bot. They are bad.


Are you a pacifist then? Kill bots sound like a better alternative than soldiers with PTSD


PTSD stops soldiers from murdering millions. Nothing stops kill bots. Trauma is an overwhelmingly preferable alternative to existential threat. (whether to humanity altogether, or our freedom)


So is the assumption that killbots kill killbots? What about the PTSD on the other side?




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