• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily. They will never be banned for this one reason alone.

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        I’m guessing the major countries will ban them, but still develop the technology, let other countries start using it, then say “well everyone else is using it so now we have to as well”. Just like we’re seeing with mini drones in Ukraine. The US is officially against automated attacks, but we’re supporting a country using them, and we’re developing full automation for our own aircraft.

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        Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily.

        …and exactly this way of thinking will one day create “Skynet”.

        We need to be (or become) smarter than that!

        Otherwise mankind is doomed.

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          Unfortunately this is basic game theory, so the “smart” thing is to have the weapons, but avoid war.

          Once we’ve grown past war, we can disarm, but it couldn’t happen in the opposite order.

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            The process of collective disarming is the path towards growing past war. And that first step is the collective banning of manufacturing such weapons.

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              I disagree. War isn’t caused by weapons. It’s caused by racism, religious strife, economic hardship, natural resource exploitation, and more. Those need fixed before anyone will be willing to put away their weapons.

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                War isn’t caused by weapons.

                It’s enabled by weapons.

                And there are people who want to use weapons when they exist, simply because they exist.

                And there are people - for example weapons manufacturers - who want other people to use weapons.

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                  Obviously it’s enabled by weapons. But that strengthens my point further - the nation who reduces their weapons first loses.

                  When has a nation completely set down their weapons, and what was the effect? One obvious case that comes to mind is Ukraine, who fully denuclearized. Ever since that moment they have repeatedly been invaded by Russia (the nation who maintained the weapons).

                  What you suggest is asking for this to repeat over and over again. The only truly viable path to eradicating war, is to first eradicate the problems that cause war, then to abolish weapons.

                  If you have factual evidence that your method works, please present it. I shared hard evidence of my perspective.

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                    When has a nation completely set down their weapons, and what was the effect?

                    You seem not to know much. It has happened often, and in very different ways.

                    Start your studying about Switzerland, because it is easy.

                    Then try to understand Afghanistan. But beware, it is already a little complicated, and you need to read about 4 - 8 decades of history, and you should not read only sources from one country (they all lie, and you need to overcome that - or stay ignorant).

                    Last, go for some of the African countries. They are harder to understand, the what and the why. But coincidentially :) our current topic starts there, so it may be important.

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            Once we’ve grown past war,

            But what until then? Your ideas do not provide any solutions. You just say that it is unavoidable as it is.

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            “Basic game theory” says we should destroy this wacko system. jfc.

            TBH these kinds of sloppy arguments are a big part of why game theory is a joke. It’s fine as math (apart from misleading terminology) but a major problem is applying it to situations that are definitely not “games”.

            For example killer robots are not a game in any mathematically meaningful sense. The situation has been to be maximally simplified into a game between two people in order to reduce the situation into a simplistic analogy. This is neither science nor math. It’s no reason to condone killer robots.

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          Yeah totally agree. The general population almost never wants to go to war - the plutocrats do.

          Once we take care of our own corrupt governance I suspect wars will rapidly disappear, and then weapons will likewise disappear.

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        Once combat AI exceeds humans:

        A ban to all war, globally. Those that violate the ban will have autonomous soldier deployed on their soil.

        This is the only way it will work, no other path leads to a world without autonomous warbots. We can ban them all we want but there will be some terrorist cell with access to arduinos that can do the same in a garage. And China will never follow such a ban

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      Ok so we ban them, and some incel terminally online hacker on steroids turns 20 arduinos into bombs.

      I agree killer robots are dangerous and ethically problematic, just I don’t think banning them will keep asshats from making them, including on large scale.

      China could pump them out by the billions and we’d probably not know till they were deployed.