Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, Lawrence Zhou and guest Quentin Clark discuss the 2021 TOC and how the lethal autonomous weapons topic played out. They talk about general trends in the topic, the best and worst affs including China and emerging tech, the best and worst neg strategies including circumvention and politics, and talk about ways the topic could have been improved. They conclude with some thoughts about intrinsicness.
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Episode Links:
The Victory Briefs: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
Police robot bomb: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bomb-robot-explosive-killed-suspect-dallas
Hypocritical theory: https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/04/23/on-hypocritical-theory-by-jake-nebel/
The case for regulating fully autonomous weapons: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2528370
Intrinsicness article: https://www.debatemusings.org/home/rehabilitating-intrinsicness-redux?fbclid=IwAR2CDRa3ywduEzyX-ncTRvs6FEfpWWl5HYWOJ2ToDH-hSKKyJJfOOgJrngI
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