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kgin

This is the first time I've seen new tech and felt a twinge of fear instead of thinking "oh cool".

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Perhaps you’ve never seen this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

Compare 2:33 in the above fictional video to this real one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35726/the-army-has-unv...

They already had a small drone war. Azerbaijan vs Armenia. Armenia had 1990s soviet stuff. Azerbaijan had recently purchased drone tech. Armenia got totally destroyed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attack-drones-dominatin...

These are previews of future wars, much like the wars in the decades before WW1 previewed the utter slaughter that was to come thanks to the new technological era of mechanized warfare.

I don't see how this is scarier than the nuclear bombs that already exist.

Less collateral damage. L

Much more accessible to regular people.

Ability to be anonymous and hide in a crowd of drones.

yeah exactly

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