https://silencingmachine.org/tags/defense/ Recent content in Defense on silencing machine Hugo en-us Tue, 19 May 2026 07:59:25 -0700 https://silencingmachine.org/posts/0004-its-not-the-terminator-its-worse/ Tue, 19 May 2026 07:59:25 -0700 https://silencingmachine.org/posts/0004-its-not-the-terminator-its-worse/ <p><img src="drone.png" alt="" title="Except tape a grenade to it"> <a href="http://localhost:1313/posts/0002-the-reluctant-gunner/" title="I even wrote a whole thing about it">I carry a concealed handgun, legally.</a> I&rsquo;ve thought pretty carefully about what I&rsquo;m willing to do with it and under what circumstances. Last week I realized it would be completely useless against a new threat I&rsquo;m really worried about.</p> <p>Let me back up.</p> <p>I used to think the idea of a robot apocalypse was stupid. Not because AI isn&rsquo;t potentially dangerous, but because the specific fantasy (Skynet wakes up, builds an army of chrome humanoids, declares war on humanity) skips about forty steps and gets basically everything wrong. Humanoid robots are hard to build, expensive to operate, and worse than humans at most of the things you&rsquo;d actually want a weapon to do. The form factor is a liability.</p>