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It is only a matter of time until those drones fly into their target fully autonomously with machine learning. Heck, I could build that with hugginface (I will never do that) in a few evenings if you are ok to blow up the wrong target with a single digit percentage.
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It's easy to identify who is a evil country and who is a victim in Russo-Ukrainian war. Who is bombing civilians? Shelling cities with inaccurate old missiles? Which cities are destroyed to the ground? Russian state is pure evil, even worse than Iran.
If only the majority of the Russian resident population could see that, they would stop Putin. Propaganda, and arresting dissenters, makes it difficult for the *average* Russian to realise anything is wrong. But even in free nations, people like to think their soldiers are heroes rather than villains, and reports of crimes are covered up or brushed aside.
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Switchblade 2 is $80k usd per unit. And the only reason for that is that as per usual private companies are making a killing. You and I could build a similarly functioning device in 6 months with a small team. They're not that smart/advanced, imo. I think most of the money for these things isn't paid for research/engineering but goes into MBA/investor pockets.
> You and I could build a similarly functioning device in 6 months with a small team. They're not that smart/advanced, imo. If you can do what they do in 6 months, why don't you do it? You would get rich easily. I worked in the drone industry. Everybody thinks everything is easy to do. Spoiler: it isn't.
For example in the UK flying a drone requires registration.
Though I suppose I could make like most Brits seem to and bend the rules a little. The ailing police force certainly weren't around to help me when I needed it so I doubt they'd be interested in me fucking about with a drone in a field (sans pyrotechnics of course, I'm not stupid).
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> You and I could build a similarly functioning device in 6 months with a small team. They're not that smart/advanced, imo. If you can do what they do in 6 months, why don't you do it? You would get rich easily. I worked in the drone industry. Everybody thinks everything is easy to do. Spoiler: it isn't.
Because it's practically illegal to do anything of the sort with drones now, let alone strap explosives to one. For example in the UK flying a drone requires registration. Though I suppose I could make like most Brits seem to and bend the rules a little. The ailing police force certainly weren't around to help me when I needed it so I doubt they'd be interested in me fucking about with a drone in a field (sans pyrote…
Now one could ask: if you don't manage to pass that point, could it be that you underestimated the complexity of building such a business? :-)
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If only the majority of the Russian resident population could see that, they would stop Putin. Propaganda, and arresting dissenters, makes it difficult for the *average* Russian to realise anything is wrong. But even in free nations, people like to think their soldiers are heroes rather than villains, and reports of crimes are covered up or brushed aside.
Pretty sure a good many of them know exactly what's going on.
UK had a few million protest against the second Iraq war, and still didn't stop it. Do you think the percentage is higher or lower in Russia, with all its propaganda?
Worse, in the context of "picture myself working on something like this and sleeping well at night", consider sub-group modifiers: how many people in the UK resigned from defence companies due to agreement with the anti-Iraq-war protests?