Re: near-anything boxes allowed to be in the hands of the public?

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 17:37:05 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Right! You almost said it here Greg. *Why* do you think this attitude
> > > has finally changed? It because we have good battle simulators running...
> >
> > Michael S. Lorrey wrote: ...generals will prepare to fight by the latest
> > generation combat simulator. Now you will have an arms race in simulator
> > tactics and technology...
>
> That works for me. The good guys are way ahead. {8-] Also, that is
> one rare example of military technology that really does have good
> commercial spinoffs: faster computers, more programmers, etc. Take
> a look at some of the better flight simulators. You might be impressed
> with the realism: they sim such subtleties as the moment of inertia
> coupling, high speed sub-mach buffet, performace loss at altitude, the
> real performance characteristics of the planes. Perhaps this will
> eventually be seen as a first step in creating sims good enough to
> fool an uploaded human. spike

Wouldn't it be great if we could pass an international law that said
that nations had to fight their wars in simulators?

Mike Lorrey



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