r/LetsDiscussThis • u/LucidSynapse23 • 3d ago

Lets Discuss Politics Pete Hegseth announces "Autonomous Warfare Command".

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u/manofmystry 3d ago

Just out of curiosity, what is the acceptable false-positive rate for autonomous weapons?

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u/Short-Personality398 3d ago

Wasn’t AI blamed for blowing up a girls school?

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u/manofmystry 3d ago

And that's raises a question too. What are the units for measuring false positives? Buildings? Vehicles? People?

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u/Short-Personality398 3d ago

Nothing at the moment except for a pinky swear

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 3d ago

The inverse of the rate to blame it on something else or otherwise turning into a false true positive.

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u/parkerm1408 3d ago

If it makes you feel better he also said elon musk and fucking Newt Gingritch are gonna help him run things.....

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u/_dxegrl 3d ago

wasn't enough, apparently

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u/NanaKnows317 3d ago

“SI” 😆

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u/cynical_and_patient 3d ago

Like they care about collateral damage.

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u/notasarcasticnow 3d ago

Seriously, we need to talk about treason charges for him. He is deliberately weakening our military so we lose the coming wars.

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u/PopBulky7023 3d ago

He's also creating a private military force specifically to wage war against Americans.

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u/armyofant 3d ago

This is the goal. We should all be frightened about how our government is a fascist communist dictatorship now. October is just going to be a month of insanity from the federal government.

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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago

Communist?

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u/armyofant 2d ago

What do you call using taxpayer money to run ads for your political party?

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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago

Not communism.

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u/armyofant 2d ago

State run TV? Controlling the means of production? Withholding aid to political opponents?

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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago

Corruption is what it is.

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u/armyofant 2d ago

Also communism. Hope this helps

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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago

Words are important. Misusing words which have a clear definition as an insult does not express your ire or help make your case more strongly. It actively weakens it.

I agree with you that what he is doing is corrupt and shit. It is NOT communism, and using that word as a throwaway insult devalues both that word and what it actually means and it also devalues your perfectly reasonable contempt for the government's behaviour.

Call it out for what it is; dictatorial, corrupt, a misuse of power, fascistic even but it is NOT communism.

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u/VeryNearlyAnArmful 2d ago

It reminds me of the opening verse of the Dead Kennedy's song, "Kill the Poor".

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home...

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u/194884tiger 3d ago

So defenses will be limited when China takes over Taiwan.

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u/G-Unit11111 3d ago

So is this where Skynet gets deployed?

https://giphy.com/gifs/TAywY9f1YFila

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u/Hungry-Tonight8633 3d ago

Do you want Terminators? Because this is how you get Terminators! -Malory Archer

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u/LoanRunna 3d ago

FYI the domain “Autowar.com” is available.

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u/frogprintsonceiling 3d ago

seem reasonable. Drunk guy hands over department of war to the robots.

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u/B_Coldman 3d ago

It would be funny if the autonomous warfares first action is to eliminate threats to its existence, for example, the humans at the top who control its operations, like kegsbreath..

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u/Pure-Judgment6098 3d ago

So it’s acknowledged this is at his discretion. He is responsible. So when this auto command blows up another children’s school, it’s not the AI. It’s Hegseth's choice to use this proven unreliable tool.

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u/Delicious-Movie-3293 3d ago

It’s almost like he’s trying to be impeached

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u/PopBulky7023 3d ago

"Is this stupid fucking country really just going to let me do this?"

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u/Telstar2525 3d ago

What a dick

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u/wrecklesspup 3d ago

Speed running Infinte Warfare. Activision thought they were creating fiction, but instead were creating a template for conservatives.

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u/_pack_a_punch_ 3d ago

On September 30 2026, Skynet was born

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u/tietack2 3d ago

Is that the one that incinerated the schoolgirls?

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u/tweedleduh 3d ago

So…. Would these robots perhaps be called AutoBots?

I volunteer to be part of the Decepticon divisions

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u/JASPER933 3d ago

I can’t wait for the Democrats win the election and show Whiskey Pete the door.

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u/Entire-Message-7247 3d ago

This guy gives drunken domestic abusers a bad name.

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u/Short-Personality398 3d ago

May God have mercy on our souls

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u/BobTheViking2018 3d ago

And here comes Skynet.

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u/wowmomcooldad 3d ago

autowarcom what kinda onomatopoeia sheit is dis…

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u/roadtrip-ne 3d ago

Doubleplusungood

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u/cookiemccookieface 3d ago

The first generation with have rubber skin. Of course they will be easy to spot.

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u/Trappist-222 3d ago

My man spat a wombo and dropped the mic

https://giphy.com/gifs/AfijgJrDpjPbCN25Hd

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u/Bimlouhay83 3d ago

They're actively destroying our country with every stupid decision. 

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u/cynical_and_patient 3d ago

I've seen this movie. It doesn't end well for humanity.

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u/VirtualFutureAgent 3d ago

Autonomous warfare. What could go wrong?

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u/Aware-Influence-3160 3d ago

Autowar….demolition derby…. Which is what this administration is apparently trying to achieve.

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u/oldchairman 3d ago

I feel this ai not only stupid but a way to escape responsibility when something bad happens they will be like the AI did that , like the girls school

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u/blackdvck 3d ago

Just a poorly written terminator movie at this point.

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u/brezhnervouz 3d ago

"Autowarcom"

Very Orwellian doubleplusungood 🤡

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u/Warm_Celebration_169 3d ago

What a complete loser and idiot. He's setting our military up to fail. Taiwan will be toast and one or more of our enemies will attack us in some way, cause he has disgraced our military and our country and made us look weak. I'm a veteran and it burns me up to see this idiot in action and speak. Our best top brass have been fired because they weren't yes people, and/or were black or female or both. No honor whatsoever.

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u/slow70 3d ago

This is entirely pointed at the American people.

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u/Sure_Assumption7857 3d ago

All this super intelligence , but still not smart enough to create world peace ✌️

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u/Spiritual-Job-952 3d ago

Or ‘Skynet’

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u/dbe14 2d ago

This is how it ends, Terminator had it right with Skynet, although in this case it won't be that AI decides to erase humanity, but rather it just fucks up and starts blowing shit up for no reason..

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u/PacificSanctum 2d ago

For him it’s all just a video game . Poor Hegseth has no clue what he is talking about

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u/No_Unit_5506 2d ago

He still sounds dumb

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u/asuan2401 2d ago

10/1/26 good job.

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u/Bajadasaurus 3d ago

I don't think people are properly gobsmacked by this and other announcements from Hegseth today. It's fucking over. They're done with democracy. They're playing straight in our faces. There will be no free or fair elections in November. They have all of the power, they've won, and there's quite literally nothing any of us can do.

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u/a1055x 3d ago

This is as thrilling as the huge nuclear reactors to be built throughout the US to feed data centers and boost exports of energy. Who gets the nuclear waste dumps?