technology

I support this move of giving every US Soldier a radio-device on their heads that needs constant connection to a remote server. I am sure there is no way AT ALL for a crafty enemy of imperialism to exploit this one.

I say it needs this because I highly doubt their plan is to make every soldier carry around a computation device powerful enough to real time analyze video footage. If that is the plan, I also support that, because it will be a waste of billions of dollars either way.

If it can put a little map in the corner of your vision with little red markers for gunfire sounds the warzone will feel like call of doody.

If it can visualise local sounds and then map them to locations in your 3d vision in realtime like a sort of Batman xray vision using sound cues then it'll be genuinely powerful and dangerous in close combat scenarios. A full squad of microphones receiving a sound noise from different microphone locations should be able to map that information pretty accurately. A footstep or shuffle could be visualised and located in 3d space through multiple floors or walls, a squad using this technology will be genuinely scary when this tech matures. This is not techbro nonsense there's tonnes of applications here that would improve a squad without presenting overwhelming information.

I know Lord of the Rings isn’t without its problematic elements. But still, it’s a book beloved by millions (including me) with an overall wholesome and uplifting story. The fact that Anduril and Palantir are able to use objects from the book and do the worst possible shit under their names makes me want to ✍️ them just for that alone, before we get to all their other crimes.

The Tolkien estate is loaded, I wish they would go after them. Even if Palantir and Anduril aren’t trademarked, I would think that either in US or UK courts, they could argue these companies are so evil and against everything JRR believed in, that associating them with his works is actively, financially harmful.

The protests within nixos was over this company's involvement.

They saw the game Haze and that one episode of Black Mirror and started developing the warcrime-obscuring reality bending tech.

woke army putting cat ears on their helmets

Giving all the facebook chatbots PTSD by training them on live helmet camera footage of war crimes

"wot if your da was a smartphone" as it may be, I'm suggesting we lift Charlie Brooker into the pantheon of incredibly confused auteurs with prophetic vision alongside George Lucas and Hideo Kojima. My man has earned it

I want to believe

I see some people worried about the implementation of this tech and it's effectiveness but what has the u.s / israel done other than prove that no amount of tech can beat out actual experience and will?

u.s americans have nothing to fight for- even if an adversary were at the doorstep of the states, if this tech were to ever see mass adoption it would just be used to supplement the long and arduous training (or experience) competent soldiers have to go through

it's the same mentality we all see in civil professions, ai and other tech are shoehorned in to replace actual experience and wisdom leaving workers bereft of most opportunities to gain expertise- all this will do is create a much weaker and incompetent imperial warmachine