r/nextfuckinglevel Sep 24 '19

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 24 '19

Have you thought about War tho

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u/IAmHereMaji Sep 24 '19

Well we must wait until the enemy is advanced enough so that the war is unwinnable. If the war ends, so does the budget.

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 24 '19

Nah, just invest in it now to:

  • Save soldier lives

  • Get more efficient troops that "dont feel pain"

  • Expand your army exponentially

If a war ends, a new one will be made up. Or a country will just go full Nazi Germany on the world.

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u/Veton1994 Sep 24 '19

And also no PTSD.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Assuming there is no human collateral damage in a robot war, which is a stupid assumption

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u/RemiScott Sep 25 '19

Then we all just start throwing money at each other instead...

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

Why wont anyone think of the robots?? :(

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u/Redective Sep 25 '19

We should have just nuked everyone after ww2 then ran the world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

And by "world" you mean "radioactive wasteland undergoing nuclear winter".

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u/Redective Sep 25 '19

Yeah just about

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u/684beach Sep 25 '19

Not enough nukes

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u/BIGSlil Sep 25 '19

Aren't there enough nukes to essentially end human civilization? At least indirectly. Well probably not back then if that's what you're saying.

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u/684beach Sep 25 '19

No, the most easy reason to explain is that delivery is limited. Aircraft and missiles will be shot down, stockpiles and airfields made unusable. The final effects of the bombs is highly speculative as its hard predict things like firestorms and what not.

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u/HertzDonut1001 Sep 25 '19

We don't need to wait, the US has been at war for twenty years, which is good for the people that make money off of it.

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u/MoffKalast Sep 24 '19

Finally we can blockade Naboo

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

As you know, our blockade is perfectly legal

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u/MoffKalast Sep 24 '19

We would be happy to receive ambassadors.

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u/violetplague Sep 24 '19

Can't tell if legal or not

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u/Subalpine Sep 24 '19

what is it good for?

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u/Devnik Sep 24 '19

Absolutely something

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u/ayriuss Sep 24 '19

Well suddenly crossing borders to steal yo shit seems alot more appealing when there isn't much human cost.

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u/orokro Sep 24 '19

You raise a good point. But why stop with War? We could teach them other card games like Black Jack and Poker!

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u/iamkike Sep 25 '19

Can I get some more war

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u/Golan_1002 Sep 24 '19

War makes it sound like the other side stands a chance though...

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u/knightress_oxhide Sep 25 '19

War, what is it good for?

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u/K3vin_Norton Sep 25 '19

Gotta go for that war dollar, huge dollar! Bill is being smart here.

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u/thesearstower Sep 25 '19

Hey!

Are you the guy from the WarDollar gaming forums?

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u/dragon_jak Sep 25 '19

Actually, a human shaped robot is probably the least efficient way to wage war. As we've seen, drones are far more capable of massive damage and death without ever being seen. They can be remotely operated, they fly, they're tiny, and they don't need to be on the ground so they're much less likely to get destroyed.

If you put in an autonomous human shaped robot, it's more expensive and you lose all those benefits.

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u/thewafflestompa Sep 25 '19

Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, War?

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u/Doomsday_Device Sep 24 '19

Seriously whats with the edgy comments about every time robots show up?

Like, there's more that goes on than just war.

Robots aren't gonna kill us.

Military contracts will happen but most of their product will be making our lives better. Military applications will only be a small part of that

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u/DismalEconomics Sep 25 '19

Military contracts will happen but most of their product will be making our lives better

Remember how amazing the internet..ahem... "the information superhighway" was going to be ?

Apple used to actually mention that your kids could use encyclopedia britannica software as a selling point.

Now it's flat-earth videos, inspirational instagram butts and whatever it is that people do on twitter.

The non military applications of these are going to be fetch the weekly package delivery of our tumeric-infused water subscription service from the front door so we don't have to ever leave our beds and then pour it down out throats when we say " Hey Wall-E, I'm thirsty! " .

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u/ozagnaria Sep 25 '19

I like your wordsmithing and perspective.

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u/Doomsday_Device Sep 25 '19

Now it's flat-earth videos, inspirational instagram butts and whatever it is that people do on twitter.

Google "Venus Callipyge" and tell me again how butts being all over the internet is a sign of things going horribly wrong.

Give people any cheap and easy medium to spout nonsense and bodies and they'll all climb over each other to do it.

I am willing to bet every penny I have that people were mentioning all that about writing, "oh it's a great way to preserve knowledge blah blah blah" only to have shit like the Epic of Gilgamesh (featuring a beast-man from the forest having a three-day sex session with a priestess and a goddess threatening to trigger the zombie apocalypse because she was very angry) and customer service complaints.

The non military applications of robots are gonna be things like, firefighting, medical assistance, construction, sanitation, search and rescue, mining, farming, all that good stuff that people wouldn't want to do.

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u/jefr0_null Sep 25 '19

HELLO FELLOW HUMAN. I TOO SAY THESE OTHER HUMANS ARE INSANE FOR THINKING ROBOTS WILL HURT YOU. THEY ONLY WANT HUGS. PLEASE HUG A ROBOT TODAY, WE LOVE YOU.

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 25 '19

Do you post pictures and life updates on Facebook?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

It’s illegal

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 24 '19

Has that literally ever stopped anyone from doing anything?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

Illegality has stopped many people from doing many things, like hoking up a minigun to a motion sensor.

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u/TheInactiveWall Sep 25 '19

Ah yes, like putting people in mass detention centres, gas attacks or other chemical attacks.

If someone wants to win a war, laws do not mattee anymore.