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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 June 2013 05:52:52PM 4 points [-]

When killer robots are outlawed, only rogue nations will have massive drone armies.

An ideal outcome here would be if counter-drones have an advantage over drones, but it's hard to see how this could obtain when counter-counter-drones should be in a symmetrical position over counter-drones. A second-best outcome would be no asymmetrical advantage of guerilla drone warfare, where the wealthiest nation clearly wins via numerical drone superiority combined with excellent enemy drone detection.

...you know, at some point the U.S. military is going to pay someone $10 million to conclude what I just wrote and they're going to get it half-wrong. Sigh.

Comment author: shminux 14 June 2013 06:01:43PM 0 points [-]

at some point the U.S. military is going to pay someone $10 million to conclude what I just wrote

Gain enough status to make that someone likely to be you.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 June 2013 06:32:43PM 7 points [-]

That is not how government contracts work.