A World Now Doomed?
This video was brought to my attention via the news site Tangle, my go to source for unbiased information of the political realm. The video is graphic in that it portrays the last seconds alive for many Russian soldiers.
Why I decided to post it here is because it literally shocked me of the new reality of war around the world and I think it a good reminder of the cost of any war we deem justified. Based upon this video, I think the days of fighting with any sort of boots on the ground in a coordinated manner is past, just like those days of fighting from horses or fighting in organized lines facing each other across open fields. It is a method that is scalable to unimaginable proportions.
AI plays a part too. In order to defeat drone jammers, drone operators simply start the process, point out the enemy and then switch control of the drone over to an onboard A.I. that can finish the task without human guidance that can be jammed by the enemy. At least this is how the good actors do it. Those who aren't good actors could conceivably just send them out without any initial human guidance. Skynet from the Terminator movies comes easily to mind.
I am horrified for our future.
The Ukrainians have thus far employed this technique with human guidance to prevent civilians from being killed. But I am scared for the future that this paradigm shift has pushed us into. We have become the judge and jury in a few hundred dollars of plastic parts and some programming.
If we can't find peace as a world, we are doomed.
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - Oppenheimer quoting from the Bhagavad Gita
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