Or a tennis ball with about 8ft of string attached.

As noted on page one: birdshot and old fashioned Kentucky windage.



It's funny how, regardless of how much technology (in this case AI) advances, "kinetic warfare" is still King, and always will be.

Third time this has been posted this week.

The Clinton's have these yet?

some people are just dense........

Forget the ai angle....  Even without it we're close to the point of having tech that can change the game.
attach a weapon or explosive and send it to coordinates....  or have it lock in on that tracking device you  carry everywhere.

yeah even with location turned off your cell is still sending yourlocation.

How do you catch a killer that was never there to leave evidence.

Who's talking about give?

Indeed

one thing to note, all you guys that think you'll be ok with the shotguns are probably no better off than the rest of us.
By the time they weaponize small enough assassin drones, you're already fucked. They won't be the large noisy lumbering drones of today
They'll be small super fast and nearly silent.

If someone were to assassinate you with one of those little drones, you'd probably be dead before you could even shoulder your weapon IF you even heard it coming.

The only certainty going forward is that the future will be an evolving, hostile environment.....

...and that the powers that be will endeavor to limit our capacity to challenge that future

If you're interested in artificial intelligence, I highly recommend this book.

Who knew my sporting clay hobby would end up being so useful?!   As much as I love O/U's...  Benelli SuperSport for the win!

picture this....

A small automated blimp high in the atmosphere

It carries several "smart" projectiles to drop on command

in effect it's just a sharp metal spike with small motorized fins to adjust it's  fall like a smart bomb
as it is real time guided by the signal of your smart phone

not gonna shotgun your way out of that

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I’m more afraid of Muslims with drones and bombs, than I am about AI!

yup, hd optics, gravity and kinetic energy will do a number on someone.

I did not say or imply that you had.    I brought it up to point out what that video shows can be accomplished today (to a limited degree) and that AI was not a requisite to accomplish that task.

That effectively moots the entire point he is trying to make.

AI is the single greatest threat to mankind?   Is that a joke?   If humans do nothing, absolutely nothing, we are all dead in a few billion years (+/- 5,000,000,000) anyway.   The single greatest threat to mankind is stupidity and apathy.

If mankind wants to get off this rock and ultimately survive, AI is going to be a necessary step to get there (maybe not TRUE AI but strong AI).

That guy is pretty smart.  In his specific field, I bet he is a hell of a lot smarter than I am and has probably forgotten more about the subject than I will ever know.   There are lots and lots of people like that.   That fact is irrelevant to the bullshit point he is trying to make and the bullshit they are pushing.

I don't care how smart you are or how many degrees you have or what kind of expert you are in your field:  if you are WRONG and/or your arguments are bullshit, then you are wrong and/or your arguments are bullshit.

Pushing the government to hinder the development of technology to prevent acts that could, more or less, be carried out with today's technology, strikes me as bullshit to its core.