However much you like loyalty-based social institutions, they're still burning down to the ground.
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Replying to @Outsideness
If your army is intelligent machines, you have the same kind of task of ensuring their loyalty. If the army is more like present-day tech, the problem's quite different, but not any easier. Reliability of technicians is crucial.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @Outsideness
And if you do make a system that works, that's cool, but in 20 years it will be obsolete and you need something different. Eventually you get a garbage monarch.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Garbage CEOs are far rarer than garbage monarchs, for good reasons.
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Replying to @Outsideness
They happen, but that's not what I meant. The whole system, from owner authentication to actual combat devices, doesn't have a useful lifetime longer than a human generation, and has to be successfully replaced. Perfectly.
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It's replaced within a techno-commercial circuit, which is the actual entity being protected.
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