Insert obligatory reference to Slaughterbots (2017) https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw
Black Mirror has an episode on this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
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#22Insert obligatory reference to Slaughterbots (2017) https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw
I think that might be a reupload of this? https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
3x the views, at least.
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#23Interesting map, its crazy how often these groups fracture and splinter! Really wish one of these would go publicly traded and report revenue, leading to real price discovery of these operations and ability to manage risk. There are permissionless systems they can use now to list shares, and if they have a liquidity issue they just need to take over a dam and generate some electricity for themselves for their crypto…
Publicly traded? How does that work for illegal operations? And as far as I'm aware crypto currencies really aren't profitable anymore, ignoring needing an internet connection, leading to tracing the transactions back to this hijacked dam.
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#24Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
Elon's talked about this on stage, where easily could have 1,000 to 100,000 of them with just a tiny amount of C4 - and then have them swarm at one or many targets using AI or other training/data.
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#25Man I knew it was just a matter of time for this to happen, to easy to do and to many intelligent people with no morals (or just desperate, threatened etc.). Anyway thinks like this make it more likely for unreasonable regulations, like even small drones being tracked when used or similar. But the bad joke is it's pointless as: - The "bad" people can always circumvent such measurements (it's illegal but you plan to d…
Could this become like other cheap, easy to manufacture societal disruptions like drugs - solution being: make them illegal.
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#26Interesting map, its crazy how often these groups fracture and splinter! Really wish one of these would go publicly traded and report revenue, leading to real price discovery of these operations and ability to manage risk. There are permissionless systems they can use now to list shares, and if they have a liquidity issue they just need to take over a dam and generate some electricity for themselves for their crypto…
Publicly traded? How does that work for illegal operations? And as far as I'm aware crypto currencies really aren't profitable anymore, ignoring needing an internet connection, leading to tracing the transactions back to this hijacked dam.
What do you mean by profitable? A cartel could raise capital through some erc token that gives the holder the right to some sort of dividend.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.
Allied bombing is a thing that happened, but sometimes it seems like people really strain to relate anything to something shameful associated with Americans.
In this particular context, if you're thinking of WWII, it's kind of odd for a person not to think of and compare the concept to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
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#28When the technology improves sufficiently maybe there will be a drone the size of a dragonfly that land on targets and inject them with ricin or another poison. That requires a lot better targeting than a plastic container loaded with explosives and ball bearings, which just has to get close to the target. Still, it would make a great assassination tool.
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#29Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is going to be a huge growth area for defense contractors over the next several years.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
On the bright side, you don't need to bomb everyone. Future wars could be more efficient.
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#30I've been worrying about this for years.
What's next is micro-chemical attacks. Drones that can cloud an individual or small group of people. They'll think it was just dust or something, the thing zips off into the sky, and the linings of their lungs starts dissolving and they die.