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[David Eric Smith]

https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/ <https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/>

Boy, if ever I heard women in the background saying condescendingly or contemptuously “boys with toys”, it was in looking at that wired article.

Eric





> On Mar 23, 2022, at 11:32 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> Marcus shared:
> 
>> Steve wrote:
>>  
>> “Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “
>>  
>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/ <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/>
>>  
>> < The Ukrainian unit's "most sophisticated drones are connected using Starlink," The Times of London <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fspecialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb&c=E,1,ifxcZjKAd0cxHE-nwMb1E9Cws63Q5v7-I_5OtTdH2SLP1sgE8r2N8AKlHnkHfCH9cOIMSE4ubvhmkwQWXUGLq1p42SCtu4v-9Q4C2UHd5xk,&typo=1> wrote. "If we use a drone with thermal vision at night, the drone must connect through Starlink to the artillery guy and create target acquisition," an Aerorozvidka officer told the paper.>
> And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:
> 
> https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/ <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fdraganfly.com%2fnews%2fdraganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine%2f&c=E,1,QIfPZ1Z_6fpA0U5jprLRoUar6e9tphjlyoYje6y83eUohgmLVq6O4PRVNR7PGAzAeszkFRQUo5Gh3jMZTQkTWHnmhvmIY1JzL6i74JN22VlUHoc,&typo=1>
> and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:
> 
> https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/ <https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race>
> Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the (assumed/imagined) technological singularity?
> 
> Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that slope is a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and somewhat prophetic.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End>
> and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same imagined future (overlapping the lived now we are in).
> 
> Vinge (IMO) is classified as one of the SF writers whose credentials as working scientists (Math/CS in his case) suggests a certain credibility to their fiction.  He retired from San Diego State CS in 2000 I think, having contributed a great deal of proto-cyberpunk fiction to the canon starting as early as 1991.
> 
> I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:
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>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis>
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