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What a naive statement. Do you really believe no other nation is capable of making such a thing? This doesn’t improve our national security at all. Just ups the ante for robotic infantry, whatever the hell that ends up meaning. Like advancements in war technology has ever been a positive in the world.


> Like advancements in war technology has ever been a positive in the world

Yeah, screw GPS, trauma surgery improvements and better prosthetics, IFF systems, radar/sonar, Internet, ToR, Epipens, and duct tape. /s

Really, I get having a generally anti-war position and wanting to spend money on other shit but pretending like there are no positive externalities to defense spending is childish.


Unfortunately war is kind of a Red Queen scenario where the technology advances everywhere.


> This doesn’t improve our national security at all.

You said yourself that other nations can and will make this too. Avoiding a decrease of national security is the same as improving national security.


This topic is somehow explored in the movie The Creator

There’s a lot of wholes in the plot, but the overall premise and scenario seem eerily plausible




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