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Cheap Missiles, Not Drones, Will Win the Next Air War

warontherocks.com

3 pointsby throwawayffffas2 months ago1 comments

Bell's X-76 Fold-Away Rotor Aircraft Is DARPA's Newest X-Plane

2 pointsby throwawayffffas4 months ago1 comments

Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day

147 pointsby throwawayffffas4 months ago150 comments

Meta Announces Major Chips-for-Stock Deal with AMD

2 pointsby throwawayffffas5 months ago0 comments

Twelve more prisoners released in error, with two still missing

2 pointsby throwawayffffas7 months ago0 comments

Plex's crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

arstechnica.com

3 pointsby throwawayffffas8 months ago0 comments

The Cost of a Missile: Why the Headlines Get Cost Wrong

warontherocks.com

4 pointsby throwawayffffas8 months ago0 comments

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throwawayffffas

4 days agodiscuss

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

throwawayffffas

4 days agodiscuss

In my view the article makes the following points.

  1. AI does not need to get better for the MBA to use it instead of your labor.
  2. They don't need to be good at using AI because they don't care about quality.
  3. Most technical problems are unsolved right now and AI won't change that.

If you observer the processes PMs follow they can just drop in an AI agent instead of a dev. Just tell it to do stuff and look at the result is their modus operandi as it is right now. They don't care about the engineering quality because they are not the ones that have to maintain it. And they won't get fired if it keels over.

throwawayffffas

4 days agodiscuss

OVH is much more developed on the managed side, they even have managed k8s as a service.

And you know their infra generally works, you know when it's not on fire.

And when it is, well you are not going to be the only one down.

throwawayffffas

4 days agodiscuss

Asking claude to implement a single feature that takes under 30 minutes consumes 10-30 dollars of tokens in api costs.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

Speed is really important because at these speeds they can probably intercept drones flying with low cost jet engines. So it adds a huge capability.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

Oh and probably loiter time, the rocket is you shoot and it's gone. The interceptor may have enough battery to fly around for a few minutes looking for the next one if its target is downed by something else. Plus you can probably recover these if they miss. This is all very speculative though.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

Maneuverability not so much modern AA missiles can pull over 60gs. That capability costs 100s of thousands of dollars though.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

Cost, your average stinger cost 38000 dollars in the 80s. I am guessing here but they are aiming at a price of probably under 10000 dollars.

Now why doesn't anyone take a rocket and stick the drone guidance on it? Again I am only guessing here, the drone guidance components probably can't cope with 2-3 mach. At 1000 meters per second with a 60 fps camera you advance 16.6 meters per frame, add to that the latency of whatever guidance system you have. You are looking at 20-30 meters offset between frames.

Better guidance probably balloons the cost to the 10s of thousands of dollars.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

It seems CNN fails to put their mouth where their money is.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

Investor valuation directly correlates to capital availability both in the sense of available capital to be raised in the market and as credit lines.

And this is Meta we are talking about not Tesla, it's P/E is like 20 something. The valuation is very reasonably correlated to the earnings.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

It's a concrete measure of available resources. More so than revenue.

throwawayffffas

5 days agodiscuss

He leads a Trillion dollar company that employs a lot of AI scientists and researchers.

throwawayffffas

10 days agodiscuss

Assuming their software directly proxies requests instead of rewriting them.

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

Because:

1. In the case of AI generated code, the tool is the author.

2. Its far easier to enforce.

3. The alternative gate keeps against new contributors.

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

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throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

Since Fable if you use Claude to do ML research they find objectionable you are delegated to less capable models.

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

Not only that, undisclosed behavior of this nature erodes the trust that the software is not compromised by internal bad actors.

Sure the thing we know matches the company interests but as the parent mentions for all we know they are also shipping over your ssh keys and browser cookies.

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

It's clandestine behavior, we all here assume it's trying to signal whether a user is in China, but this breaks an implicit trust.

How do we know this isn't the work of a rogue developer at anthropic and that they are not subtly switching visually identical characters in other contexts to ship your ssh keys or whatever.

We don't. After the trust that the software doesn't do things it doesn't disclose has been broken you can assume it operates like malware.

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

It has bugs!

throwawayffffas

11 days agodiscuss

Claude code does feel very malwarey to be honest. They have been like that from the start.