I wonder if you could deploy mannequins on wheels to bait out shots from one of these
Better Call Kevin McCallister.
Home Alone 6: Kevin on the Line
Yeah, they call him ‘Frontline Kyiv’
Maybe the W40K universe is going to have some additions explaining the impact Old Ukraine had on the formation of the techpriests
Not unless they explain the lack of drones
All praise the Omnissiah
Sing the song of the Machine God.
None may stay our march.
Let the merciless logic of the Machine God invest thee.
None may stay our march.
Praise and glory be to the Machine God.
None may stay our march.
I’m kinda surprised they didn’t just throw a bunch of people at it until it ran out of ammo.
Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down
Now I know why they made you general of earth!
They did. Took them over a month to collect a bunch. Most young Russians are out growing sunflowers nowadays.
Not to be confused with outgrowing sunflowers
Let alone the ones who are seeing are most certainly pulling the good old draft dodge of camping out in the Mojave or Siber in this case.
The top rack is for dangling the medals it will have collected when the robot returns home for a parade.
We praise the machine that is not used against us yet.
Careful what you praise.
You noble Machine Spirit is someone else’s Abominable Intelligence…
I’ll praise it in the hopes that our eventual robot overlords remember and have mercy on me.
In all seriousness though, from the very moment someone strapped a camera to an industrial robot in a random car parts plant somewhere in Ohio 20 years ago, this became inevitable.
I’m not worried about that either. It just comes down to who can produce more and better robots, which is a version of large-scale warfare as it’s been since WWI, at least.
Probably there will be qualitative differences this time, although I can only guess in what way. If it ends up being robots vs. robots maybe war will get less deadly. Then again, some of the WWI artillery pioneers said similar things, and that certainly didn’t work out.
Yeah but the civilian rebels don’t have robots like this.
Once the robots are able to maintain and fully operate themselves I’ll be worried (like, massively). AFAIK these are basically an RC car with a gun and some target tracking, though, which isn’t so different from an AFV at a purely tactical level, and actually could be improvised, to some degree.
Civilian rebels not having big supplies of other kinds has proven to be an obstacle, but not decisive. You just move to where the fancy weapons aren’t, and mess with the supply of items and labour they need to keep running.
Out of everything going on, digital surveillance networks seem like the biggest threat to the age of guerillas, by far.
I’m kinda worried we’ll see these on the streets one day.
at least ED209 looked cool
By the time they put something like this on the streets, they’ll have done some palatability passes on it. Heck, some percentage of the voters will praise it.
“It’s almost always correct in who it shoots!”
“Higher good-kill ratio than human police.”
Honestly, I hope when we get robot police, it’ll be for the reason that they are much better at de-escalating than any human could be trained to be. They don’t have to worry about the potential consequences if they extend kindness to the wrong person at the wrong time. Human fear is tough to suppress, no matter how much training you have, but it’s even harder to suppress when you have very little training and none of it focused on that.
And while robots can’t empathize/sympathize with emotion, they can now recognise and act the same way that someone that does sympathize with it would. But more importantly, they can talk to a psychopath or sociopath in ways that resonate with them, rather than trying and failing to appeal to their empathy/emotions. It’s tough for a neurotypical to even understand a lack of emotions or empathy.
The first models won’t be great, but we already have the tech to start making something helpful in that field, and it’ll only get better as we collect more data. But it’s tough to put robots in any situation where the fail state could be loss of life, even if we see on paper that they avoid that result more often than humans. It just doesn’t feel right anyway.
This kills the tankie
Good luck, Commander
Dominic Nicholls of the Ukraine the Latest podcast thought this was implausible
Prisoners and Combat soldiers are 2 groups of people that will do the implausible because it’s Tuesday.
