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“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877
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Should write a MIT case study on that in "Bad Hypotheses 101"
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If only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead.

If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.

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They will certainly make human soldiers unviable. (I draw mostly dystopian conclusions from that prediction.)
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Or it will just lead to lopsided massacres like the maxim gun did.
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