Epiphany comments on Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Freedom and Democracy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 14 June 2013 07:08:53AM *  6 points [-]

That's not even comparable. Consider this:

  • Land mines don't distinguish between your allies and your enemies.
  • Land mines don't move and people can avoid them.

Unless your enemy is extremely small and/or really terrible at strategy, you can't win a war with land mines. On the other hand, these killer robots can identify targets, could hunt people down by tracking various bits of data (transactions, cell phone signals, etc), could follow people around using surveillance systems, and can distinguish between enemies and allies. With killer robots, you could conceivably win a war.