The anti-guillotine
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A historically braindead take. The super wealthy have never lacked eager servants. Except now they'll need technicians and programmers to troubleshoot their troops instead of blacksmiths and quartermasters.
You're trading room and board and clothing for belts, gears, hydraulics and o-rings. And arguably a human military would still be necessary as a fallback in the event of the proliferation of EMP.
But in addition to eager servants they've also had stubborn people who resist. Machines are easier to look after and less likely to rebel. And they're quickly reducing the need for technicians and programmers.
Famous last words for any manager that fires the IT department just to boost their KPIs.
I can tell you have never worked on autonomy, automation, or system integration. I have, and I have no fear of being put out of work anytime soon.
"We have siege engines now, what do we need troops for?"
Ditto. Running positional checks and teaching on robots has taught me that I'm not going anywhere.
I'm sure the artists would have said the same thing about AI prior to 2023.
There are several orders of magnitude difference in the difficulty between drawing a picture, and connecting a new sensor into a automated system, integrating the sensor data into the system processes, and then integrating the system processes into the autonomy layer.
If my job is ever replaced by AI, the person using the AI to do it will have to be someone like me. A layperson wouldn't even know where to begin.
Stubborn people against the rulers can build drones too.
A dang water hose can knock out most robots. Or oil, or debris getting into sensitive areas, sticky materials...
You really need a factory to make them, especially if you want to make as many as the government will have. But running such a factory would be difficult to hide and you're dependent on large amounts of raw materials and products from other suppliers so there's a lot of ways that illegal operation would get shut down.
A distributed cottage industry would be better. In any case, if they can't stop the illegal drug trade, they wouldn't be able to stop illegal killbots.
remember the dildocopter!
Crossbows and guns made the super wealthy mortal. That's why they hate guns so much. They can hire armies but they can't stop a Luigi.
First, don't idolize or glamorize that commie hitman. Anders Brevik actually pulled off some serious shit in comparison but nobody talks about him.
Secondly, they don't hate guns. They love a passive servant class who won't fight back.
can't do that if you don't know where to point him.
Guns are also what they use to subjugate us. The SWAT team raiding your house get 30 guns, military weapons and a license to use them - you can only shoot one gun at a time, it's not even a machine gun, and if you do they will send backup.