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Ask HN: Are there any startups looking to solve the problem of war?
That is, not how to _win_ a war, but how to _prevent_ war, or how to prevent it from ending us all, or similar.
I figure it sounds ridiculous, but... any more ridiculous than war?
I could imagine that, if we asked The Great AI in the Sky, that it could have told us a solution that would have prevented this most recent war (the one taking all the headlines currently because of all the white victims) -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Great AI in the Sky would probably say something like:
US objectives met:
- maintains ability to act with near-total impunity around the world
- further burnishes its reputation as benevolent leader of the world
- places some constraints on Russia
Russia objective met:
- security concerns addressed adequately enough
Ukraine objective met:
- civilians not needlessless slaughtered
- country/cities/industries not flattened
Europe objective met:
- uninterrupted time to continue navel-gazing
And then maybe some solutions:
- Solution 1 (Amazon's choice)
- Ukraine neutrality
- whatever else
- Solution 2
- Ukraine neutrality
- some other whatever else
- Solution 3
- WarGames (get popcorn)
- gus_massa 5y agoSolution 4 - Ukraine get back to it's 1994 borders - Russia get's Alaska instead (except the islands that are in front of the Canada coast) - Canada abandon NATO
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI don't see what this hypothetical AI is adding. These options area already mapped out easily by humans. The challenge is still getting any of the parties to agree to them.
- readonthegoapp 5y agothe AI becomes a 'neutral third party'. an arbitrator.