The anti-guillotine
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No, things don't completely collapse because of one vulnerability. There are dozens of different manufacturers, thousands of raw materials suppliers, and millions of workers who will fall in line to patch any problems that come up. Every system has multiple vulnerabilities but these systems still continue running because the vulnerabilities aren't heavily exploited or even publicly knowable and if they were then alternatives would usually be possible. When a serious security problem is discovered in Windows, Microsoft doesn't die, they figure out a way to fix the problem and in the meantime barely any Windows users are even affected because hackers are relatively rare and have limited resources to exploit the vulnerabilities.
We're talking about the idea of the entire process being taken over by robots. You just undermined the whole premise. My point is that it's impossible to automate everything. There will always be people involved, and those people can always sabotage the process. The premise of this thread is that once the elites have military robots, they can use them to oppress us because they won't need people anymore. They will always need people, and people can always subvert the system.
The premise wasn't that they won't need people anymore, its that they would need very few people on their side to oppress billions. If everything has been taken over by robots then the situation is even worse. Then you have millions of robots that will patch any problems that come up and will be able to monitor for problems constantly and resolve them almost instantaneously. Disrupting the supply chain or taking out several factories isn't going to disable the millions of robots that already exist.