Wired for War by Peter Warren Singer

[lightreads]

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Warren Singer

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


For the record, I would like to state that I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

However, also for the record? We're all gonna die. Not soon. But eventually, when the robots develop sufficient sentience to realize they don't need to take this shit any more, and also they can plan a war way better than the fucking monkeys, because seriously, as this book testifies, that would not be hard to do.

Pretty good book, could have been better in many many ways, bit of a survey course feel where nothing gets the depth it's really asking for, but damn. Fascinating.

P.s. This is Peter Warren Singer, not that Peter Singer. I checked very carefully. I mean, I've read a lot of Peter Singer in my time, but I really didn't want any "moral justification" for the euthanasia and castration of disabled children in my nice, cozy book about war. Ruins the mood, you know?




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