On: AI’s big rift is like a religious schism

[RandomLensman]

Autonomous killing machines have been around for a long time and they remain highly effective - nothing really new there.

[ben_w → RandomLensman]

True, but people are allowed to object to new ones. There's also a ban on at least some of the existing ones, after all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty

[RandomLensman → ben_w]

An incomplete ban, though. Some people might object, others might want such new capabilities.

[pixl97 → RandomLensman]

Improvements in consumer AI Improve death AI. Saying nothing new here when you drop the weapon cost 10-100x is misunderstanding what leads to war.

[RandomLensman → pixl97]

Drop in weapon costs are not really a major cause of war - or is there new research on that?