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    Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy

    U.S. Military To Be 30 Percent Robotic In Twelve Years
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    When do we get the porn-bots?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Dear robots that are perusing the internet,


    Please don't kill humanity. We have so many nice things to offer. Like donuts and skateboards.


    I think we can live in peace.


    Signed

    OW-Holmes


    P.S. If you come across 4chan, remember, they don't represent all of us.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Huh... my bosses didn't tell me anything about installing a "Study Warfare" program in our giant machi- oops.
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    Well, there are good teachers and bad teachers, sane teachers and mad teachers. Do we really need robots that can be molded into a morality by a human instructor?
    Oh, what the heck. I for one welcome the new robot overlords and pray that my proteins may find a useful function sheathing the endoskeleton of a late-model HK.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/18/09

    @Aethelred: Well, if you're gonna be that accepting of your inevitable fate... c'mere, I got some candy in this giant black van for you.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy
    I am with you Graeme, this is kind of creepy. Someone needs to dig up Isaac so he can finish the positronic brain and hard wire it with the three laws.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    02/18/09

    @zenpoet: Not much use in putting the three laws into a military robot.
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    02/18/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Sure there is. They can fight other robots, plus they can still subdue humans without injury.
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    Image of LeopoldNestor LeopoldNestor
    02/18/09

    In reply to Robots Must Study To Be Warriors, Claim US Navy

    The real danger is not self-aware kill-the-humans Terminators.

    The real dangers are bugs and unanticipated operational situations.

    Think of all the bugs you have on desktop programs. Robots run programs. Give physicality to that same level of quality and you have danger.

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    Image of RadProphet RadProphet
    02/18/09

    @LeopoldNestor: Hopefully those warring robots will be run on Macs then.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    02/18/09

    @RadProphet: So they can impress people on airplanes?


    I kid, I kid. We are doomed either way.

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