(04-12-2022, 03:26 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: I can't find my link nor recall his name, but back in early 80s (I think 1982) one of those deep thinker RAND types who wrote paper wargaming scenarios for the Pentagon boys said the battlefield is no place for humans and proposed a cyborg/terminator + Space based weapons alternative. 40 years later they are getting closer with drones and who knows what they now have above our heads up in the Space cloud.
I remember when they were batting that idea around, the notion of an entirely mechanized battlefield. I remember thinking what a stupid idea that was. War sucks and it leave permanent marks, most of which are invisible to the eye. NO ONE leaves that battlefield the same as they were when they went in to it, whether it's readily visible or not. War is painful, and it is SUPPOSED to be painful - if it wasn't, humans would be doing it all the time for whatever reason their twisted little minds could devise.
Going full mechanized battlefield with no human element eliminates that pain, and it is a virtual guarantee of perpetual war. What is the point, exactly, of just having your machines "kill" my machines while we sit around and sip coffee? How is that battle even won, and what is the payoff once it is?
What if, after I lose, I say "so what if your machines 'killed' all my machines? Fuck your machines - I'm gonna run your squishy human body through anyhow!"? What have the battle-bots gained for you at that point?
It's just a bone-headed notion. Leave it to Rand to come up with that bit of crazy.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’