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Good luck with this, no seriously, good luck. Our technological capability moves forward whether we want it, even fight it, or not. It can be slowed somewhat (the electric car being one example, stem cell research another) but it will happen and we will need laws and frameworks to ensure we deal with this change appropriately sooner rather than later.

This is the equivalent of hiding our heads in the sand.

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Unfortunately, it couldn't come at a worse time - a time when even the most "democratic" countries on Earth are pushing for their people to have fewer rights, more censorship, more surveillance, more torture, more secret assassinations and so on.

Obviously hey were playing on it, but captain america 2 kinda nails the problem

The problem is that a cult of Nazis have infiltrated the NSA?

Hahaha not quite what i was implying, i guess the idea that someone could be building things without our knowledge to destroy society

Legislation will only work in jurisdictons where the legislation can be enforced.

You can see that most murders with a gun in zones where guns are outlawed have been with guns purchased outside those zones.

So you can see where I'm going with this.

Legislation MAY work here but not everywhere.

You're right, but I'd still like some assurances that police won't be setting these things up. I can imagine police departments salivating over metal storm type machines with rubber bullets.

> we will need laws and frameworks to ensure we deal with this change appropriately sooner rather than later

You really think the state is going to hamstring itself? Because states are creating the demand for and purchasing autonomous killing tools like Metal Storm[1], not private entities.

[1]: http://gizmodo.com/236590/metal-storm-robot-weapon-fills-the...

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