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Tricking your adversary into spending a huge R&D budget studying ESP is money well wasted: it’s unlikely to yield anything of value that can be weaponized again

Tricking your adversary into spending a huge R&D budget studying ESP is money well wasted: it’s unlikely to yield anything of value that can be weaponized against you. If a SciFi weapon would break the laws of physics, and you can prove the equations unsolvable, leaking documents suggesting you solved them is money well wasted: your adversary is unlikely to get anything of value out of pursuing that weapon. Pretending your stealth tech is better than it is… Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with. That’s a…questionable move. You might trick your adversary into developing better stealth tech than you.

bredren 5y ago
This presumes stealth tech is the goal, rather than a higher order tech that makes results of the research-triggering feint strategically immaterial. For example, I suspect Apple feinted Amazon into chasing voice assistant tech and products, distracting Amazon from more serious matters like ARM-based SoC and AR.
mike_d 5y ago
> Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with What you are "tricking" them is that you are flying over their airspace and they can't do anything about it. Secret projects are kept indoors longer, testing schedules are delayed, effort is put into hairbrained stealth detection tech, etc.
z3ncyberpunk 5y ago
It's like you're an entire comment forgot the Cold war existed, we're both sides extensively studied ESP and psychic abilities and repeatedly tried to out bluff each other with various technologies.
im3w1l 5y ago
> Pretending your stealth tech is better than it is… Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with. That’s a…questionable move. You might trick your adversary into developing better stealth tech than you. You are tricking them into thinking money spent on stealth is a better gamble than it is (but being a gamble, it might still pay off). That siphons money from other projects.

bredren 5y ago

This presumes stealth tech is the goal, rather than a higher order tech that makes results of the research-triggering feint strategically immaterial. For example, I suspect Apple feinted Amazon into chasing voice assistant tech and products, distracting Amazon from more serious matters like ARM-based SoC and AR.

mike_d 5y ago

> Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with What you are "tricking" them is that you are flying over their airspace and they can't do anything about it. Secret projects are kept indoors longer, testing schedules are delayed, effort is put into hairbrained stealth detection tech, etc.

z3ncyberpunk 5y ago

It's like you're an entire comment forgot the Cold war existed, we're both sides extensively studied ESP and psychic abilities and repeatedly tried to out bluff each other with various technologies.

im3w1l 5y ago

> Pretending your stealth tech is better than it is… Is tricking your adversary into trying to be competitive with stealth tech you yourself aren’t competitive with. That’s a…questionable move. You might trick your adversary into developing better stealth tech than you. You are tricking them into thinking money spent on stealth is a better gamble than it is (but being a gamble, it might still pay off). That siphons money from other projects.