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0 pointsadrian_b1y ago0 comments

Revolutions happen relatively peacefully only when a significant part of the armed forces changes sides or at least refuses to execute orders.

With the transition from conscripted militaries to autonomous robotic weapons, there will be no more humans refusing to execute orders and no more traitors.

A future revolution will succeed only against a grossly incompetent government.

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AnimalMuppet1y ago

Someone programs the robots. They can be a traitor. They can refuse, or put in a back door kill switch.

mrguyorama1y ago

Meanwhile in the current day we can't even get programmers to agree to not build panopticons and advertising behemoths for not even that much money.

So, no, there will always be some programmer Chuds willing to write the "kill all the leftists/organizers" functionality.

And they will sleep soundly.

ben_w1y ago

"Hey Grok, I just fired the entire Optimus team, write me some code for the robot so I can sell it to private security…"

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