Re: Fighter Jocks.

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:39:59 -0800, John Leary <realjtl@sj.bigger.net>
wrote:

>     I beg to differ on the comment "The drone won't chicken out.".
>The programming would include a value/loss statement as well as the
>fact that humans do ram high value targets.   The drone would consider
>itself as a high value target and would try to avoid a crash.

But the drone turned away from the fight because it's programming told
it that it was prudent to do so. Humans often turn away from a fight
due to their fears of dying. It's a lot more difficult to get a human
to sacrifice himself or herself than it is to get a piece of machinery
to do so.

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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