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Also, why do people keep talking about landmines? I'm talking about software, you are talking about dumb mechanical things from WWII. This isn't a philosophical question about methods of warfare from the past, but the software that controls the dumb hardware.

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> why do people keep talking about landmines?

I, a person, singular, mention landmines as they are a hardware device that are designed to trigger action on a threshold.

Felixers are computer vision based devices that are designed to trigger action on a threshold.

These are actual real world objects that Bishop Berkeley can kick, not vague philosophical questions but actual engineered devices that kill and are in use today.

Land mines are still very much in widespread use

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