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The US military is sometimes discussed as a large and generally competent organization which achieves goals making use of people who may not be top of the class
by timschmidt 3y ago
The US military is sometimes discussed as a large and generally competent organization which achieves goals making use of people who may not be top of the class, and many layers of other people checking that everything got done, and verifying that everything got checked. I have wondered if all we're missing for reliable AI is a suitable management layer, also composed of AI.
- from-nibly 3y agoGenerally competent is not how ive ever heard the US military described.
- timschmidt 3y agoI think we're talking about different scales. At the small scale the military screws up all the time. At the big scale the military fields more bases, ship tonnage, airplanes, etc than any other organization in the world. It's exactly this ability to derive successful operation from unreliable parts that I'm pointing toward.