• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily.

    …and exactly this way of thinking will one day create “Skynet”.

    We need to be (or become) smarter than that!

    Otherwise mankind is doomed.

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      3 months ago

      Unfortunately this is basic game theory, so the “smart” thing is to have the weapons, but avoid war.

      Once we’ve grown past war, we can disarm, but it couldn’t happen in the opposite order.

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        3 months ago

        Once we’ve grown past war,

        But what until then? Your ideas do not provide any solutions. You just say that it is unavoidable as it is.

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        “Basic game theory” says we should destroy this wacko system. jfc.

        TBH these kinds of sloppy arguments are a big part of why game theory is a joke. It’s fine as math (apart from misleading terminology) but a major problem is applying it to situations that are definitely not “games”.

        For example killer robots are not a game in any mathematically meaningful sense. The situation has been to be maximally simplified into a game between two people in order to reduce the situation into a simplistic analogy. This is neither science nor math. It’s no reason to condone killer robots.