AI filtered crowdsourced RF COMINT in urban areas, to extract human drama to feed the maw of the attention economy, is likely to complicate LE & emergency services in ways that are difficult to anticipate for those who are used to scandal control in a different tech stack.

Military historians are going to look back on the present period and struggle to explain why the anchoring bias to legacy programs and concepts was so severe as to literally demand the same platforms be extended for decades past any reasonable standard, and those that might be replaced only by simply wearing the skin suit of earlier activities.

Warwick cyber (in its earliest form) being cited in analysis of a frontier lab pre IPO disclosure filing is a kind of academic policy impact victory condition that few universities may ever claim. That it involves estimates of retrocausality is truly an incredible moment for theory building.

If one credits recent academic study suggesting the natural technical lead for Western frontier superintelligence is 12+ months, but halved by distillation, then one might suggest that adversary espionage has at least an even chance of halving the time yet again. But this is more likely to be jagged across improvement in ways that are inconsistent and hard to anticipate, further varying by character of the penetration. Especially as those curves bend sharper, faster.

“Exploiting y well hardened device does not make other devices z1…n more secure” is a bizarre assertion. Developing and defeating entire new classes of tradecraft on the highest investment targets absolutely has trickle down effects for everyone else in the ecosystem. It is simply too often lost in the morass of failure at less tightly pressed defenders and admins.

Quelle réponse judiciaire? Non, quelle réponse militaire. il s'agit de guerre irrégulière

RTG’s CHOOH2 was a bit of remarkable foresight from the late 80s / early 90s positing then politically unthinkable adoption of ethanol based vehicle fuels (but assuming genetic crop modification for improved efficiency to be viable as a full petroleum replacement). It also became the dystopian driver for agcorp automated megafarms and associated rural displacement, setting in game conditions for Hardwired’s Damnation Alley and the nomad interior between isolated urban blocs. Like the shattered solar plants in the desert outside of Night City, it is the visible marker of green energy failures; evidenced by the importance of legacy fuels as strategic contests in the 2nd and 4th corporate wars. Further, it is an immediate tell for the hyperinflation that devastated that future America, with those prices 2-4x higher or more in legacy USD (although one can note the rare miss of predictive accuracy in assuming the euro would remain more highly valued.) The correct adjusted canonical price comparison to the current era would be upwards of $24 USD per gallon real world (when paying in gold or hard goods), more if trying to convince the seller to accept greenbacks. Biofuels were also not a policy choice, they were posited in lore as a crisis adaptation to the loss of the entire OPEC oil output following catastrophic nuclear weapons exchange in the Persian Gulf. It is still a range and performance reduced, costly cope that fundamentally altered land ownership, population geographies, personal automotive access, and many other things downstream. It is one of the most fundamental breaking points in the collapse of America as we know it, towards its devolved game state.

There is likely something important here at the deep biological level for addressing cognitive skew in national security intelligence tasks, and making better use of intuitions before grounding in formal methodologies.

ECC conspiracies at last hammered by the shoggoth. “…we do not believe it is plausible that weakened curves were selected”. As many of us have argued for many years, on evidence of the quietly strengthened DES S-boxes. America is built on strong cryptography, for commerce as much as for government.

Casually showing off new luxury sports car aerodyne designs with scaled up children’s matchbox tracks is precisely why the best of America is still oriented on creating the future.

Proposed AMX-30 UGV concept reminds one of a long vanished 1990 wargame, buying French tanks under arms embargo at overinflated prices, only to watch formations melt away in the first fight

Current impulsive emotional reactions on display seem to validate every Cold War concern raised about escalation risk by partners reliant on larger military capabilities umbrella. And why such discussions need must be held among professionals, vice the baying mob that seize upon symbolic brands without regard to real world OPCON arrangements.

Alignment debates for superintelligence have become such a parody that it seems like a lot of folks believe they can shackle humanity into the sanitized Demolition Man future through sufficiently censored compute. This seems like a bad bet.

Norinco surging new robotics production to “riot control” humanoid systems likely says much about Party expectations of near term future unrest, and the instruments of repression that it will seek to leverage across subject populations.

Slop in, slop out. Swarms over the slop in endlessly regurgitating loops. In the morass of slop, the sensor is king.

The discussion of commentators that spent decades pursuing a road to AI that didn’t work out makes one think that there is much commonality with the rear guard still pursuing cybersecurity policy that has been aggressively disproven by contact with real world operations. Both remain seemingly befuddled at having been overtaken by events.

The LOAC arguments around kinetic destruction of the Yandex data centers will almost certainly be a difficult debate. One is more than willing to consider how these were a valid target, contributing to adversary warfighting and war potential. But one also senses that the justifications more commonly offered will not hinge on military utility but rather point to troll farms and other things that just a week ago would never have been considered something those in the salon would accept killing over. One also somehow doubt this action will be seen a precedent when it comes time to project American power.

I did not anticipate that the next phase of organic compute would be researchers torturing mushrooms to drive robot systems responses. One dystopian step away from a cyberpunk manifested product with a Nintendo logo, perhaps.

Convergent instrumental goals in survival selected lineages of high offensive cyber performant self replicating weak superintelligence swarms seems like it will haunt my nightmares of autonomous strike and retaliation architectures for some time to come. Perhaps with the added spice of Halvar’s idea of a little curiosity bonus.