Sunday, 29 March 2026

Choices made by human beings, over many years […] gave us this atrocity

quote [ What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught.
Someone decided that deliberation was latency.
[…]
Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide. ]

In-depth explanation of military interfaces for shortening the kill chain as well as musings on measurement and error margins.

While this starts with explaining how none of this is related to current LLM stuff, the root problem is the same as in non-lethal orgs: human judgement has to happen someplace: and requesting it faster from less people introduces more stress and more errors.
[SFW] [dystopian violence] [+1 WTF]
[by Paracetamol@6:45amGMT]

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