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Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans
Ostracus writes "The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to 'develop a software/hardware suite that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject. The main research task will involve determining the movements of the robot team through the environment to maximize the opportunity to find the subject ... Typical robots for this type of activity are expected to weigh less than 100 Kg and the team would have three to five robots.'"
To be fair, they plan to use the Multi-Robot Pursuit System for less nefarious-sounding purposes as well. They note that the robots would "have potential commercialization within search and rescue, fire fighting, reconnaissance, and automated biological, chemical and radiation sensing with mobile platforms."
with a lower chance of dying than you. simply because i have realized an implement whose only use in a household context is the ending of another human life is simply unnecessary
i don't live my life as fully as you do, but more fully, as i have one less UNNECESSARY and DANGEROUS complication to worry about. unless of course, you're my neighbor. then the risk to my life is increased because of the extra risk you expose to those around you. which i'm certain you will disagree with, since you are omnipotent being who never makes any mistakes, right?
i mean, i can put various man traps around my house to protect myself from robbers. it would make sense according to your rationale. also, because i know i will never ever trigger them myself by mistake, or a family member, or anyone else who is not an intruder. it won't ever happen. how do i know this?
i know this because i have a time machine which goes into the future, and sees all possible outcomes from the unnecessary and dangerous additions i have made to my life
(snicker)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
but a gun
IT NEVER FAILS!
IT HAS NO DOWNSIDE!
i can shoot myself ny mistake, i can have it wrestled away from me by an intruder, i can not get to it in time, i can be asleep the whole time, i can shoot my own son climbing in through the window in the dark having forgto his key, etc., etc.
all other technology, gun advocates can see the horrible failure rates and scenarios
but guns?
not guns. guns are absolutely infallible, no potential downside
LOL
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
and the statistics situation is 100% real: people bring forth the most incredibly retarded biased statistics as "facts"
go ahead. list a heroic scenario of gun use. now list a tragic one. the tragic scenario: assign it a probability rate in your mind. it might even be lower than the probability of the heroic scenario. but i can imagine about 10 more tragic scenarios than i can for every heroic scenarios. so, overall, if i bring a gun into my house, i invite more tragedy than heroics
no feelings dude. just a prudent and logical exploration of scenario and probability
go ahead, do the same thought experiment in your mind, come to a different conclusion. please
"The fingerprint sensitive cabinet costs $300. Not rare, not expensive."
good, i'm glad. you seem to know a lot about statistics. tell me the ownership rate of those cabinets
oh, and tell me that the cabinet never fails, and that you have time for it to work effortlessly and noiselessly and without any time wasted as that robber opens your bedroom door, oh great infallible superhuman
oh and whats your aim like groggy and tired?
oh, and you can wake up on the slightest hint of noise?
oh, you have nightvision goggles?
oh, your judgment and thinking is razorsharp at 3 AM after waking up?
you go dude, you be the big hero with the big gun. you're infallible. nothing ever tragic will come of your unnecessary tool of death by your bedside. i'm 100% certian for you ;-)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it