Logo Question?
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Logo Question?

I just noticed that the pebble logo (which I thought was just a circle) actually has a smaller circle to the top right and a line at the bottom.

Has the logo always been that? What does the smaller line and circle represent? Is it a gender thing?

u/Old_Leadership_5495 — 1 day ago
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Compute replacing humans in combat?

How do you avoid ai or regular algorithmic computing replacing all combat functions?

If we take for example a fighter plane, what is keeping an AI or even dumb computing from replacing a pilot? As in there is no human on board and all physicalized skill expression (ww2 dogfighting for example) is replaced with ai or algorithms?

In a close combat scenario like dog fighting the computer will be almost always better at putting nose on target than a human. In the info war before the combat, the human has the same information source as the machine and the machine can react quicker. Even if we said that EW shrinks and eliminates the advantage of radar and any unprotected surface, why couldnt an internally protected computer with reaction wheels and a protected camera beat a human in the same position?

When I try to find how to prevent combat from getting Deep Blue'd I keep finding dead ends.

If we want to minimize computed advantage via HPM, then just have the computers be hardened or internal only or have timed connection and disconnection to hardened or passive exposed info sources. If we go with something more out there that can bypass hardening like maybe muons or nutrinos, the human gets super cancer at the same time the computer gets the equivalent of acne.

If we try to minimize computed advantage via combined sensor confusion (and assume that for whatever reason the human can figure it out and the machine cant) with ideas like flares but the flares also emit em and have inflatable balloons to match the shape of the real target and whatever else, then combat is now point and click adventure where the pilot clicks on the right target and prays friendly autopilot gets the other guy shot before enemy autopilot wins. That doesn't even need ai, just a simple error correction algorithm to minimize distance between current nose position and intended nose position. The plane knows where its pointing at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isnt. By subtracting where it isnt from where it is, or where it is from where it isnt, it obtains a difference or deviation.

Any theoretical means of nerfing combat compute like quantum waves passing thru hardening lol? Minovski particles?

Anything I am missing?

This logic imo seems to exted to turrets (see trophy systems) and tanks and why not use the same logic to get rid of infantry via flying drones or rc cars? End result is rockem sockem robots with a couple of generals playing battleship over skype, loser is the first person to run out of money to build more tech to throw.

Obviously a neer peer framing, guerilla fighters would probably be even more pro machine without techy tricks available to futz with sensor info...

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u/Old_Leadership_5495 — 9 days ago