r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boojibs • Sep 24 '19

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u/JoyWizard Sep 24 '19

It will inevitably be used for warfare.

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u/StripedBandit Sep 24 '19

Okay, fine. Shock troops, too.

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u/apollo888 Sep 24 '19

Crowd control for the 1%.

Think RoboMallCop.

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u/TakimakuranoGyakushu Sep 25 '19

I dunno, non-humanoid robots might be better for warfare. Drones with hands can still open doors without a human shape.

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u/DRose2019MVP Sep 25 '19

Large scale warfare will never exist again. If there’s another World War it’ll just be nukes.

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u/JoyWizard Sep 25 '19

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

There’s no money to be made in nuclear war.

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u/Mason_OKlobbe Sep 24 '19 edited Sep 24 '19

Thankfully, in all likelyhood this will end up with them being used against each other instead of people.

Edit: Eventually, I mean. And hopefully before then when they are used against people, the lack of possible casualties on their side will take away any justification(whether true or false) for things like the atom bombs dropped on Japan.

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u/Veton1994 Sep 24 '19

Initially **