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I wonder, in a future where space exploration is minimal and performed by robots, and where non-war (by technicality) is waged by drones, who will the heroes be?


Humanity doesn't really need war heroes.

Edit: or the robots will be programmed with markov generators to tweet some stirring last words.


unit tests

the people who heroically sacrifice their sanity to write unit tests

( In all honesty, this is one of my biggest concerns about using robots for exploration and war. These are very human activities, and if we don't deign to use humans for them... well... why are we here? )


The tounge-in-cheek response might be the engineers that build those robots and drones.




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