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by ben_w 155 days ago
> World war today could be 1) nuclear and we're doomed, or 2) kids playing with toy drones breaking windows at each other's factories - you're mostly safe, unless you work there.

Cyber war, especially insufficiently defended industrial equipment control systems.

And about those drones: the category scales up and down, all the way from toys to things that rip apart apartment blocks.

And about quantity, Ukraine is estimated to be at the scale of millions of units last year, expended like munitions rather than like vehicles.

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The drones that rip apart apartment block would be as rare and expensive as a tank. We won't see many of those. We're in the era of cheap.