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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's almost like militaries invest in various different types of hardware in order to be able to deal with a variety of combat scenarios.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

I wonder if Elon is even aware that a big part of why the F-35 is so expensive is because it was designed to operate as a command and control node for fleets of combat drones, because it turns out you still need a human intelligence directing them.

His fantasy that autonomous kill-bots are all that matters in warfare is just something he got from the scifi novels he obsessively reads (while completely missing the point of every single one of them). We're not even remotely close to an "AI" that could be trusted with that kind of decision making.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

the very second an army realized it was just drone-on-drone warfare they'd switch to bunker busting drone command centers and ignore the drones.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

autonomous kill-bots

Elon really wants to sell cybertruck with "self-driving"

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're right, but what he really wants to sell is Tesla shares. The more the share price goes up, the richer he is, and Tesla's share price is based entirely on the notion that its the ground floor of a world where autonomous vehicles are everywhere.

Market cap wise, Tesla is sitting at something like ten to twenty times any other car manufacturer, at a fraction of their sales. It's the promise that a) they'll crack self driving any day now, and b) self driving will be a thing that everyone wants that keeps the Tesla share price as ridiculously inflated as it is. If people get wise that there is no rabbit in the hat, his fortune collapses.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

TSLA gives me ENE-vibes. I'm hoping for a spectacular repeat of Enron. At least Tesla has something of value, but it's nowhere near a justification of the share price.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reminds me of a scene in Heinlein's Starship Troopers where they explain the need for mobile infantry. All thr bombs in the world won't let you hold the territory. For that you need the infantry, and always will. If I recall right.

So I'd say he missed the very fundamental point there that robots cannot win a war alone.

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