Re: Interesting - Ukraine Missiles Use Open Source, Russians Use Pi-4s

Rich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rich wrote:
> 
>> at a 100:1 cost ratio, someone can lob 100 Qassam rockets towards a 
>> single target for the price of one Tamir missle.  Even if the Tamir 
>> could somehow take out 99 of the Qassam's (it can't) that still 
>> leaves one that will explode somewhere the defender really does not 
>> want explosions happening.
>> 
>> If two Tamir's are used against the swarm, then the swarm could be 
>> 200 large before it again cost the same as the two missles.  And two 
>> missles won't take out all 200 incoming, so still, one or more 
>> explosions somewhere you'd rather not have any explosions.
> 
> Isn't this where AI steps in and says
> "A strange game, the only winning move is not to play"?
> 
> FX: hollow-laughter

Or, as in the classic Star Trek series plot from the late 60's, the AI 
"fights a simulated war and determines who won" and the losing side 
submits the AI's determined number of human casulties to be 
"evaporated".
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