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k__today at 7:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.


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intheitminestoday at 7:57 PM

“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877

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dguesttoday at 8:05 PM

If only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead.

If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.

theptiptoday at 7:31 PM

They will certainly make human soldiers unviable. (I draw mostly dystopian conclusions from that prediction.)

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