Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
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#2Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass.
It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
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#3Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
Agreed and the vaguely proposed solution for their hypothesized problem sounds far worse than the problem.
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#5I would like to see a mini quad copter take the recoil of a 1 g "shaped charge" (aka bullet).
EDIT: ok, i found a clip of (a fairly big) drone firing a gun and it looks... not stable:
still, pretty worrisome.
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#6Bostrom is well-aware of the downsides—corrupt actors in a state could exploit this surveillance for totalitarian ends, or hackers could blackmail unsuspecting victims. Yet the fact is that it may still be a better option than suffering one global catastrophe after another.
Aspiring fascists are always trying to save us from ourselves.
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#7Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
While basically all the omniviolence scenarios would induce the state to trust individuals less, which is kind of the thrust of the article, climate change can still induce more frequent heatwaves and make things difficult for more people. Whether it will reach the threshold of societal collapse is a more difficult question.
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#8Literally nothing in this article seems like something that will actually come to pass. It's like a bad Black Mirror fanfic.
Agreed and the vaguely proposed solution for their hypothesized problem sounds far worse than the problem.
And, on that note, sounds like it would do effectively nothing to even address the problem in the first place.
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#9> In this scenario, the K/K ratio could be perhaps 3/1,000,000, assuming a 10-percent accuracy and only a single one-gram shaped charge per drone.
So you "only" need 10 million drones and 10 million grams of plastic explosive? An attack of that magnitude probably requires the resources of a nation-state, so I doubt it will happen. Targeted assassinations seem more plausible.
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#10A more reasonable solution to a bunch of drones terrorizing humanity (at least more reasonable than "hey let's make those drones' lives easier by setting up a giant artificially-intelligent surveillance monstrosity! What could possibly go wrong?") would be to stock up on shotguns, birdshot, butterfly nets, and crowbars.