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Just going to put this out there. An EM pulse is surprisingly easy to do.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Or just hacking. These things are going to be some vibe-coded, cheaply made junk if the billionaires and their corner-cutting corporations have anything to say about it. Sure they'll be intimidating as hell at first, but exploits and weaknesses will be found and the arms race isn't going to be as completely one-sided as we fear. Not that the other sides are going to be any better. I'm more worried about the criminals who're going to be building a literal botnet of them before turning them into their own army of chaos and insanity at the flip of a switch. "Attention! I am a hacker who has your apartment building surrounded by my remote controlled battlemechs, please have all residents send a total of 15 BTC to wallet address cdsjfkejiwoejfsiadjfkalsdf if you want to live. Do not bother contacting the police, these used to be their robots anyway and I've got them surrounded too... they can't help you now."
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Be that as it may, I think the killer bot dystopian future is more likely to resemble Half-Life 2 than Robocop. That is, they’ll take you out with a cheap FPV drone from a thousand feet above rather than some big expensive killer mech robot. Your EMP isn’t going to be of much use when a grenade explodes on your head while you’re walking to grab a slice at the local pizza joint.
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It won't defend them from everything ..
"We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us!"
I think fitgirl will crack their security in like an hour.
I honestly think that robots or whatever are just going to be vulnerable. Everything has always gotten cracked… so I would be quite wary of deploying a robot army and relying on that. One day some 15 year old boops their bop and they turn right around and now you are in trouble.
This assumes that they have radios that can be exploited. Which is the whole point of developing an AI; to remove the necessity of human intervention and simultaneously eliminating the possibility of remote hacking.
Not saying it would be impossible; you'd just have to gain physical access to the robot somehow.
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Call me old fashioned but if you need a deadly killing machine to protect you, you fucked up in life somewhere buddy.
I think you just called a lot of Americans fuckups.
I mean, it's already been well established that at least 30% of Americans are fuckups.
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AI and robots to replace the workforce, fighter drones and robots to pacify the surviving population.
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we're in the Megaman timeline.
Light up the Night
Who do you think supports the giant supply chains to provide them with ammunition, energy, and maintenance?
Musk tried building a fully automated factory, didn't go so well.
Also, modern warfare is about asymmetry more than overwhelming power. You just need to spend mor efficiency than your opponent to overwhelm them with things like drones.
Private Armies achieved the same result in the past. Money is a powerful motivator in a society where common goods cost something.
How do their sensors work? Could a paintball sniper blind them?
Hold a poster of a billionaire to automatically disarm them
Just place a traffic cone in front of the visual sensor
[WEAPON DETECTED: LETHAL FORCE PERMITTED]
I think the immediate danger is less death robots, but instead manipulation. AI opens a lot of ways to easily put out propaganda and other ways to control people.
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