• kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    17 days ago

    Absolutely nothing a human can do will defend you from weaponized robots with existing technology let alone any future improvements.

    Have you seen the crowd dispersal microwave guns? They point at you from meters away, you’re now getting so hot if you don’t move you’ll get burns. All they need to change them from “crowd dispersal” to “kill you” is a few extra watts or a narrower beam.

    Slap one of these bad boys on top of any bad robot that can move towards targets and you’re good.

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      You know why the drones in Ukraine are on super long fibre optic cables? Because it turns out it’s really easy to jam them and the only way you’re actually able to get a clean signal is through a cable. Either these robots are gonna be easy to jam, or you can cut the wires leading back to their handler and they’d just stop working.

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      17 days ago

      There are already diy heat shields that can be made for a few dollars and have been proven against microwave emitters. You act like ppl aren’t already fighting drones and high tech weapons.

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        There are already diy heat shields that can be made for a few dollars and have been proven against microwave emitters. You act like ppl aren’t already fighting drones and high tech weapons.

        Sure, go ahead walking around with reflective tinfoil in this scenario. The robot’s microwave gun will hate it… the automatic turret that uses a regular RGB camera will love how easy it is to track you instead.

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          So somehow this tiny little robot has 40 tons of equipment for every possible scenario but is able to hop around like it’s nothing but plastic and wires.

          Sure…

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          I’m not talking about an isolated individual Rambo, I’m talking about well coordinated, disciplined guerrilla warfare.

          I’m not saying the tech isn’t effective, I’m saying it’s vulnerable, and I think that the right tactics could give us an advantage.

          Just the way you seem to think about these things is very silly

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            I’m not talking about an isolated individual Rambo, I’m talking about well coordinated, disciplined guerrilla warfare.

            Unless you’re a military, you’re not fighting a hypothetical scenario where robots are being used to attack civilians, no matter what kind of power fantasy you hallucinate before sleeping.

            I’m not saying the tech isn’t effective, I’m saying it’s vulnerable,

            Vulnerable from other tech, not you and your friends, or me and my friends, or we all combined.

            Just the way you seem to think about these things is very silly

            It’s called accepting the truth that technology has far surpassed our ability to fight back against it, and the normalcy we live in is vulnerable from the moment this technology exists.

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              Accepting the the lies of tech corpos and learned helplessness? No thank you. “Just accepting” hopelessness is the seeds of enslavement.

              The irony is you wanna paint me as having fantasies, when I’ve clearly researched this topic more than you, who just repeat police press conferences and sales materials. I have faith in the people and our ingenuity, you have faith in billionaires, professional grifters, sales reps and bureaucrats.

              If we didn’t have ideological overseers like yourself enforcing the word of your lords and masters, then we would be better able to defend ourselves against police repression.

              If I had to choose which was the greater threat to freedom, between people like you and the copbot, I’d pick you every single time.

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                Accepting the the lies of tech corpos and learned helplessness? No thank you. “Just accepting” hopelessness is the seeds of enslavement.

                The way to fight this is not literally fighting the death machines, you’ll lose, you need to tackle the goverments funding their development, and the capitalist society that empowers them.

                when I’ve clearly researched this topic more than you

                Research your way against a literal turret, genius.

                who just repeat police press conferences and sales materials

                If a cop falls to the ground and raises his hand asking for my help to lift back up, I’m kicking their teeth.

                If we didn’t have ideological overseers like yourself enforcing the word of your lords and masters

                If we didn’t have keyboard warriors like yourself who think a clever Batman plan and three of their white friends can defeat heavily weaponized modern machinery, maybe we could tackle the problem in ways that actually have a chance of working.

                If I had to choose which was the greater threat to freedom, between people like you and the copbot, I’d pick you every single time.

                Because you’re a dumb fuck who can’t understand the scale of the gap between your own abilities and the last century of trillions in investment in war machinery.

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                  At no point have you represented a single one of my arguments correctly. If the only way to be right about your own ideas is to intentionally misrepresent mine, then you are by definition, an idealist, and a dishonest one at that.

                  I’m not a dumb fuck, you are a sucker who couldn’t find his ass with both hands.

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                    17 days ago

                    At no point have you represented a single one of my arguments correctly

                    That’s rich coming from the guy who says I’m reproducing cop speak because I state the obvious claim that you couldn’t defeat a modern war robot lol