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‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. (theconversation.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Basic game theory" says we should destroy this wacko system. jfc.

TBH these kinds of sloppy arguments are a big part of why game theory is a joke. It's fine as math (apart from misleading terminology) but a major problem is applying it to situations that are definitely not "games".

For example killer robots are not a game in any mathematically meaningful sense. The situation has been to be maximally simplified into a game between two people in order to reduce the situation into a simplistic analogy. This is neither science nor math. It's no reason to condone killer robots.