I imagine you're joking... but it is possible to shield against EMP weapons... our military today has EMP protection installed in our expensive stuff like fighter planes...
That actually would probably be effective against your run-of-the-mill Terminator...
But you'd never have enough of them, they are expensive to make, take time to learn to use, and machines can echo-locate the point of firing too quickly...
It would probably take a few out, but you wouldn't get away with it, they would kill you in response...
After a few of those events, they would create up-armored versions that were immune to 20mm cannon fire, much like tanks are today...
While that makes for a good movie... you miss the reality of it...
Without the need to eat or sleep, a robot army defends you 24/7... A dozen terminators surrounding a person's child would be very hard to get past and even harder to walk away from...
And such an attack might give them an excuse to simply cull 10% of the population in response...
The rules change when you switch from people guarding people to terminators guarding people...
It isn't all-or-nothing, there is a gray area... humans will still be needed, but as more things become "human helper to the robot" type thing, it reduces the options...
Once production requires little or no labor, goods and services will have little or no cost, so the cost of supporting the poor through redistribution will be negligible. We can do it with even lower taxes than we have now.
We *can*, that doesn't mean we *will*, careful that you don't confuse the two...
Supporting the poor just gets you more poor people, feeding all those hungry people in Africa sounds nice and makes idiots feel good, but it just causes more poor people who can't support themselves in Africa to be born, pretty soon you have too many people to support.
The one possibility that I can see working is population control, if you accept free crap, no more kids for you...
and instead you now have thousands of jobs maintaining and building those robots. jobs are evolving, robots are better at repetitive/dangerous/mundane tasks.
Actually, no... you have dozens of jobs maintaining and building those robots that replaced thousands of workers...
It isn't a 1 to 1 replacement ratio, that is what most people miss...
Significantly disgruntled people, armed and/or in larger groups, are really going to increase the maintenance costs of AI...
Terminators... or something like them...
Sooner or later, an army will equip battle robots, first as close support heavy weapons mechs to work with humans in warzones, they are who stick their heads around corners and provide suppression fire.
Then they will come home... not to take us over like in The Terminator, but to obey their elite masters without question...
And remind me again why the Africans didn't do this to the Europeans?
Why exactly did Africa not invade Europe, instead of the other way around?
Oh, that's right, because they are dumb as rocks, or they would have dug themselves out and built a nation of modern civilization. Even today, they can't get their act together.
Serious question, because so many of your replies are like this one, completely ignorant of basic facts and knowledge of the subject.
Hey shit for brains, downdraft is a thing, every pound you lift vertically has to be pushed up by blowing air down. How you blow the air doesn't matter, it takes about the same amount of air per pound to go straight up.
The amount of air you must move to lift a vehicle that actually could carry people FAR exceeds what will ever be allowed in a residential neighborhood. Even 50 feet off the ground, the downdraft is far too severe even for a small 2 person vehicle.
This was an unmanned drone at an airport with big open spaces, it wasn't lifting anything. The "real thing" would not be able to land anywhere useful other than big open spaces.
I'd expect something like a rooftop landing pad on your garage, and instead of a rollup door on the front, it would just lower the pad into the structure and close the roof. With the right set of baffles and spoilers, the downdraft felt at ground level wouldn't be particularly hazardous.
I suspect you don't quite understand how MUCH downdraft we're talking about... There simply isn't room in the footprint of homes built today to handle it...
This isn't just about on the ground, 50 feet up you're still producing a TON of downdraft, more than would be acceptable in a neighborhood.
Getting a person there with something better than chemical rockets is just fantasy since if you got the vehicle to move fast enough even the cosmic background radiation will be shifted enough to irradiate people to death.
You forget that anything in deep space is going to require shields, or the method of transport won't matter...
so I do not get why you are calling it fantasy.
You don't get it because you don't understand human nature... this simply is not going to happen...
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EMP shielding is a thing... there also doesn't need to be any radio communications, that is what AI is for, the robots run themselves...
Fuel trucks and oil pipelines can be guarded 24/7 by robots...
Those robots don't need human handlers, where have you been? AI fixes that, you simply talk to them and they can make their own decisions...
You're living in a fantasy world...
Maybe... or perhaps just the wealthy who can afford them, we shall see...
It won't be you or me, that's for sure!
I imagine you're joking... but it is possible to shield against EMP weapons... our military today has EMP protection installed in our expensive stuff like fighter planes...
That actually would probably be effective against your run-of-the-mill Terminator...
But you'd never have enough of them, they are expensive to make, take time to learn to use, and machines can echo-locate the point of firing too quickly...
It would probably take a few out, but you wouldn't get away with it, they would kill you in response...
After a few of those events, they would create up-armored versions that were immune to 20mm cannon fire, much like tanks are today...
While that makes for a good movie... you miss the reality of it...
Without the need to eat or sleep, a robot army defends you 24/7... A dozen terminators surrounding a person's child would be very hard to get past and even harder to walk away from...
And such an attack might give them an excuse to simply cull 10% of the population in response...
The rules change when you switch from people guarding people to terminators guarding people...
The AR-15 is a pretty lousy hunting rifle for anything other than small game...
A .308 or .30-06 rifle is a much better choice... The AR-15 is a nice varmint rifle however for killing rabbits, foxes, etc...
The army won't take that long to build, and no one will complain when it is first built... it'll be used against the "bad guys" first...
You made my point for me, even if you missed it in the process...
Remind me again how much UN World Food Program aid goes to Niger and other Africa nations? Lots!
And they have lots of poor people and high birth rates...
The poor in the US have more kids than the rich and middle class do, which further proves my point.
You have one of the best posts on this topic...
It isn't all-or-nothing, there is a gray area... humans will still be needed, but as more things become "human helper to the robot" type thing, it reduces the options...
Actually, nuclear power could have been "too cheap to meter", if humans had not gotten in the way...
Fear from the fossil fuel business combined with hysterical uninformed idiots in the media killed it...
The "owners of AI" will be anyone will a cellphone.
Your cell phone isn't armed... :)
The elites will be...
Once production requires little or no labor, goods and services will have little or no cost, so the cost of supporting the poor through redistribution will be negligible. We can do it with even lower taxes than we have now.
We *can*, that doesn't mean we *will*, careful that you don't confuse the two...
Supporting the poor just gets you more poor people, feeding all those hungry people in Africa sounds nice and makes idiots feel good, but it just causes more poor people who can't support themselves in Africa to be born, pretty soon you have too many people to support.
The one possibility that I can see working is population control, if you accept free crap, no more kids for you...
and instead you now have thousands of jobs maintaining and building those robots. jobs are evolving, robots are better at repetitive/dangerous/mundane tasks.
Actually, no... you have dozens of jobs maintaining and building those robots that replaced thousands of workers...
It isn't a 1 to 1 replacement ratio, that is what most people miss...
That's not an option in America, the people are too smart and too well armed to stand for that.
I live in Texas, I own AR-15s and hunting rifles...
They will be completely useless against battle robots deployed to keep order by the elite...
Significantly disgruntled people, armed and/or in larger groups, are really going to increase the maintenance costs of AI...
Terminators... or something like them...
Sooner or later, an army will equip battle robots, first as close support heavy weapons mechs to work with humans in warzones, they are who stick their heads around corners and provide suppression fire.
Then they will come home... not to take us over like in The Terminator, but to obey their elite masters without question...
All jobs don't have to go away for it to become a problem...
Simply removing paid drivers may well be enough to push us over the edge, but we shall see...
The numbers are not on your side, sadly...
And remind me again why the Africans didn't do this to the Europeans?
Why exactly did Africa not invade Europe, instead of the other way around?
Oh, that's right, because they are dumb as rocks, or they would have dug themselves out and built a nation of modern civilization. Even today, they can't get their act together.
Of course not... the whole thing is a scam designed to extract money from people who don't understand it but thinks it looks cool. This isn't new...
Are you really this stupid?
Serious question, because so many of your replies are like this one, completely ignorant of basic facts and knowledge of the subject.
Hey shit for brains, downdraft is a thing, every pound you lift vertically has to be pushed up by blowing air down. How you blow the air doesn't matter, it takes about the same amount of air per pound to go straight up.
The amount of air you must move to lift a vehicle that actually could carry people FAR exceeds what will ever be allowed in a residential neighborhood. Even 50 feet off the ground, the downdraft is far too severe even for a small 2 person vehicle.
This was an unmanned drone at an airport with big open spaces, it wasn't lifting anything. The "real thing" would not be able to land anywhere useful other than big open spaces.
I'd expect something like a rooftop landing pad on your garage, and instead of a rollup door on the front, it would just lower the pad into the structure and close the roof. With the right set of baffles and spoilers, the downdraft felt at ground level wouldn't be particularly hazardous.
I suspect you don't quite understand how MUCH downdraft we're talking about... There simply isn't room in the footprint of homes built today to handle it...
This isn't just about on the ground, 50 feet up you're still producing a TON of downdraft, more than would be acceptable in a neighborhood.
There is no product here, this is not something that will ever actually become a flying vehicle that can be used by people.
What's with the snotty put downs?
You walked into it by pointing out your ignorance...
Don't worry, you have lots of company, most people really spend their whole life with no clue how the world works.
Test aircraft are flown all the time with pilots, you don't wait until an aircraft is certified to fly people before you put people into it...
Getting a person there with something better than chemical rockets is just fantasy since if you got the vehicle to move fast enough even the cosmic background radiation will be shifted enough to irradiate people to death.
You forget that anything in deep space is going to require shields, or the method of transport won't matter...
so I do not get why you are calling it fantasy.
You don't get it because you don't understand human nature... this simply is not going to happen...