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U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law
buanzo writes "The US Army is deploying armed robots in Iraq that are capable of breaking Asmov's first law that they should not harm a human.
SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute.
" update this story refers to this article from 2005. But com'on, robots with machine guns! I don't get to think about that most days!
And who cares about fictional "laws", anyway?
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It ain't news, it's sensationalist bullshit.
Besides, the average marine has about a high school education, no morals and a low threshold for the sanctity of life. They might as well be robots anyways.
Sorry folks there ain't no draft and it isn't a mystery that the US war machine is a "tad" corrupt. you sign up for the military because you want to profit from the misery of others. That is unless you sign up for the military to do something outside of being a grunt [e.g. doctor, engineer, etc]. Then you're ok.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Lets see : sections of the US Army are happily breaking the UN accord on Human Rights (detention without trial), various articles of the Geneva Convention (treatment of prisoners), international law concerning invading sovereign nations [yes, this even covers ones run by genocidal bastards] and the 6th Commandment.
Why should a stupid, fictional law of robotics bother me?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
First off, the average marine/army recruit is between the age of 17 and 22. Second, that amounts to jack squat in life experience.
Third, the Military preys on the poor and least educated folk under the guise of "military education". E.g. give us 5 years of your life and we might give you a college education. These people are vulnerable in that they come from poor families and/or don't think they have any chances to make it in the real world.
Fourth, it's no secret that the US goals in the middle east are far less than altruistic. You [including other UN nations of which I'm ashamed to say Canada was party to] let the Rwandans get slaughtered, you let blood diamond mining go on, etc, etc, etc, yet it's SOOOOO important to "liberate" Iraq and Iran. Despite the fact you basically brought Iraq to a civil war....
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Thats not insightful, thats a troll, way to go mods!
First off, "war on terror" != "WW2".
War on terror is just some excuse to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS under the guise of "intelligence snafus".
As for the "low threshold". If these people placed any value on the lives of others they would question being in the military and seriously give oppressing other nations a rest.
I'm sorry but are you folk seriously blinded to how one sided your news and media are?
*** TEN TIMES *** the number of dead on 9/11 have died in Iraq since March 2003.
*** YOU ARE *** the terrorists you sick fucking depraved lunatics!
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
... hitmen in the Mob work hard too you know. We don't celebrate them either.
Point is where the military is being deployed is very, how you say, "selective".
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
as compared to you right wing fascist types I think they look quite good.
I can't see your reasoning.
"I don't want a tac nuke in private hands, because I don't believe you're capable of only hitting those who are actually posing a threat to you personally."
Neither is a government or anybody else with such a weapon; so your point is what?
"I also wouldn't let you have land mines, pursuant to the common law principle of prohibiting reckless endangerment."
So reckless endangerment is _valid_... but only as a prerogative of government?
How can you possibly reconcile this with the idea that the US is any kind of democracy? Please wake up before the US _becomes_ the 'evil empire' in your Terminator and Star Wars movies. If you don't, then as I've said before, one day we'll all have to get together and fight you. That would be a sad day indeed.
"We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code." Dave Clark, IETF
Why is the term fascist always thrown at the right?
fascism (fshzm)n.
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator
Not last time I checked.
stringent socioeconomic controls I guess all the entrepreneurs that make it are in on the secret society that controls every thing?
Wouldn't the socialist model that the left loves fit more into that definition?
suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship
Violent protests appear to me to be the tool of the left.
Censorship? Where?
typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
Didn't the left lead a charge against the "bad old Arabs" taking our our ports?
Yes, it is flame bate, but if people are going to just repeat the words offered in talking points, I wish they would just stick to "two legs bad, four legs good."
if vegetarians eat vegetables why are cannibals not humanitarians.
I Don't consider the comment to be insulting, it's just the plain and painfull true.
The only thing i don't agree is about the 'moral' issue mentioned. I Want people to have Ethics, not moral. Ethics are a personal construction, moral is shit accepted blindly from some sort of institution, usually your parents, some religious bullshit, or similar.
The reality is that soldiers Don't have Ethics, otherwise, they wouldn't be soldiers of the USA (We all know what kind of polices the US Army has, if you decide to participate in it, you are a just like them, and there is no excuse you can use to argue with that).
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Iraqis arent people though, they're terrists. Everyone knows that. Besides, Aasimov was a hippe.
US Army Soldier breaks God's Ten Commandments