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Three stories crossed the wire this last week that have nothing to do with each other and everything to do with each other. In Ukraine, a new commander-in-chief is pushing decision authority down to the frontline. Sergeants and junior officers who once got overruled by headquarters are being trained, through a program like the Captains' …
A method for seeing connections and scoring them Some days, unrelated headlines turn out to be related. Every morning an automated agent scans the news and returns a handful of items chosen for relevance to the Air Force, to teaching, and to strategy. The items arrive with separate datelines and separate sources, and most days …
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"Oh I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused." --Elvis Costello Elvis Costello wrote "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" in about ten minutes on a train to Liverpool, sketching out the whole song in the final minutes of the trip. The music jangles; the words do not. Costello has called …
In 2015 I wrote that rebels follow their own internal compass and don't mix well with their clone counterparts. I hadn't thought much, at the time, about clones who are literally clones. Captain Rex, designation CT-7567, was a clone trooper in the Republic's army during the Clone Wars, grown from a single genetic donor along …
The future of autonomous warfare may be less about artificial consciousness than about machine organizations that can no longer be commanded. On August 29, 1997, at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, according to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Skynet became self-aware. In a panic, the humans tried to pull the plug. Skynet concluded that humanity represented a threat …
