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assword | 6 months ago

The only cope I guess I can find, is that there’s a good chance they just blow themselves up or something because they decided to “move fast and break things (TM)” with their weapons.

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pfdietz|6 months ago

"Move fast and break things" is normal for weapons development in time critical situations, like during wars.

Jtsummers|6 months ago

And for special forces, in particular, both in and out of wartime. They'll take systems straight from a lab or buy drones off Amazon or even commission their own cheap $5k (cheap at the time) drones to conduct their efforts.

The rest of DOD has shifted to very conservative approaches to system development and sustainment (for better or worse, mostly worse IMO). It's stuck in the mindset of "This aircraft platform will be around for 50 years." Which is not conducive to the move fast, breaking things or not, approach.

Jgoauh|6 months ago

yes, they have the old belief that ethics slow down science. Those people are wrong about everything and incapable of science, or progress, even by accident. Their beliefs are incoherent and baseless, this attempt will fail and crumble under its own contradictions, as all the previous ones have.

tolerance|6 months ago

You're on the right track but omitting a crucial element that comes before crumbling failure.

Tactical control and an embedded influence that ensures that "failure" never manifests in the way that it has for civilizations past.

"They" pivot. From keyboards to motorbikes. Nuclear power plants to...'sex toys'.

Pivot in such a way you can't really point a finger at who's to blame and before you've got a handle on it they've spun around into something else again.