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Watched the stream for this. Meat is not even close to competitive, and this with the AI limited to meat Gs and an aircraft that's designed around meat pilots. I feel sorry for the first meat pilots to find themselves "fighting" these systems.

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I think the use of the term "Meat" highlights my greatest fear with robots fighting our wars for us, doing our killing for us. Our dismissal of our humanity, compassion and empathy. The warriors coming back from WW2 brought with them a deep desire to not do that anymore. The gamification of killing eachother. Calling ourselves "meat". In every other context, for thousands of years, we have been referring to ourselves as human beings, people, folks, neighbors, etc. Now at the very beginning of this technology we are throwing all that out and going with "meat". Contempt for the amazing gift that humanity is, thats what using "meat" to describe ourselves indicates.

They're made out of meat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

By the way, I agree with you, it is unsettling to hear human beings reduced to such terms.

I'm pretty sure humans will always value human life - on their own team. The greater danger is dehumanizing enemy humans which is a common technique to motivate soldiers to kill each other.

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