Over 55% of US soldier casualties in the two Iraqi conflicts are from ambushed convoys. And convoys move ammo, water, and fuel. So if you could put a reactor in one of these locations, you completely remove all those fuel shipments, you save tens of thousands of lives.
Defense contractors and satellite makers pay tens of thousands of dollars a shot to blast their electronics with neutrons to find out whether they could survive a nuclear detonation or a decade of radiation in orbit.
The idea that humans will always be "in the loop" is quickly fading. National defense ethics is giving way to new engineering reinforcement learning optimizations.
8mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
