Honestly the way I predict the future mostly works by letting go of my consciousness to a degree I’ve grown better at maintaining function in the face of, and (without the sleep-mediated difficulty in writing new memories) dreaming possible futures and then after-the-fact evaluating them, in a way that honestly hearing about AI generation reminds me of, that’s kinda where my “#androids dreaming of electric sheep” tag was coming from
Also to anyone complaining about countries devoting resources to this sub, the US maintains deep sea capabilities for reasons of state, which includes deep sea rescue capabilities mostly relating to the SLBM leg of the nuclear triad, this was a free practice scenario and like, enrichment for those guys.
Like Air Force SERE and search & rescue, a lot of this isn’t really justified in terms of per-incident return on investment, but by affecting combatants’ senses of the lethality of defeat it changes their payoff matrices in ways that minimize principal-agent problems.
Same as the Great Ghost Dance or General Butt Naked convincing warriors they had magical protection from the enemy, or Japanese, Christian, or Islamic ideas of death at war as an honor bringing afterlife rewards (with chaplains embedded with armies to reinforce the sense of protection against ultimate annihilation), or even a lot of the function of battlefield medics in an explosive age (from a government perspective a multiple amputee soldier is just as much a total loss as a dead one, and costs for ongoing care besides) – shifting some margin of your forces’ energies from self-protection to mission success is huge
I 100% first heard about the Great Ghost Dance via the Shadowrun sequel.
Maybe it was growing up in a “favored quarter” suburb, but if you got into a little old lady’s house when I was a young kid at the turn of the ‘90s there was a shocking probability she had a multi-instrument synthesizer keyboard unit in there, somehow leveraging the organ as a precedent for instrumental emulation for church ladies
My stomach is still fairly bulbous but I am now completely comfortable wearing thin shirts that are so short as to expose slices of the bitty edge of its bottom around others; my mental sense of myself the whole time was actually fatter than this and the old personality had developed the ability to talk his way past it in compensation
The hipster cosplayers kinda overbroad in their scope: you are going for “Cha Cha Cha in Echo Park, 2006” but I can tell you from personal experience they were not playing fucking Weezer singles.
Actually you know what given this crowd maybe that should be my standard offer: hit me up when you’re passing through town and we’ll go to the CIA airfield Air & Space Museum and see the Spruce Goose, a Blackbird, and a Titan II!
If it’s summer and you don’t have to get back on the road that day we can go to the attached waterpark!
Also to anyone complaining about countries devoting resources to this sub, the US maintains deep sea capabilities for reasons of state, which includes deep sea rescue capabilities mostly relating to the SLBM leg of the nuclear triad, this was a free practice scenario and like, enrichment for those guys.
Like Air Force SERE and search & rescue, a lot of this isn’t really justified in terms of per-incident return on investment, but by affecting combatants’ senses of the lethality of defeat it changes their payoff matrices in ways that minimize principal-agent problems.
Same as the Great Ghost Dance or General Butt Naked convincing warriors they had magical protection from the enemy, or Japanese, Christian, or Islamic ideas of death at war as an honor bringing afterlife rewards (with chaplains embedded with armies to reinforce the sense of protection against ultimate annihilation), or even a lot of the function of battlefield medics in an explosive age (from a government perspective a multiple amputee soldier is just as much a total loss as a dead one, and costs for ongoing care besides) – shifting some margin of your forces’ energies from self-protection to mission success is huge
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In support of this, the US Navy seems to have known that the sub was lost almost immediately after it happened. Presumably “the sound was not definitive” because they wanted an excuse for a training exercise, but the fact that they used the location of the sound to narrow the search area somewhat reveals how little they were planning on finding anyone alive.
Sorta baffled they knew they were dead instantly but just let the media run their little countdowns and whatnot
“They deserve a little Balloon Boy style media circus, as a treat”
Talking head enrichment
They might not want to draw attention to the fact that the Cold War combatants still have the depths of all the oceans in the world under constant surveillance
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