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OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by sorcerer-mar »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #203
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's what waste and corruption does. Assuming the goal of said systems are the same between countries: but they're not. In the US, the goal of the healthcare system is to produce profit. So the simpler explanation is that the healthcare system consumes more money and produces less healthcare because it spends more to produce profit.

>Assuming the goal of said systems are the same between countries: but they're not. And that's not corruption like I was saying?

Uhh... no? Not in the traditional sense of the word, no. It's how we've decided to architect our system.

"Corruption" in this context typically refers to an element of dishonesty or theft and so on.

If you mean "corrupt" in the ethical sense, then sure, kind of?

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Post by runamuck »

For decades innovation died in the "Valley of Death" stage of the DOD acquisition lifestyle. R&D never quite made it to operations, especially if the tech would disrupt lobby heavy "Primes." The (pretty) new org, DIU helped champion some new contract vehicles - like the CSO, which makes it "easy" for the DOD to buy and deploy Silicone Valley tech. (I only base this on my reading of the book "Unit X" about the DIU, so I recommend you read it if you want to business w/ the DOD in 2025).

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Post by nilamo »

NHQ wrote: post #169
tonyhart7 wrote: post #46

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200 mil is chump change for them, if prototype turned to be good then good for them but if its not then they are not worry

That 200 Million is chump change only to people who think like chumps. In reality it is total waste, unproductive taxation that doubles as a counter balance to inflation, so doubly wasteful. Chump together all the 100s of millions in waste year over year; the change to your chumping is not good change, its inflation and general impoverishment. Every penny of that 200 is a note in the bank of inflation and degradation…

Is all of that truely "waste", if it is being paid toward onshore companies? The money doesn't disappear, it gets redistributed to American companies.

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Post by Loughla »

potato3732842 wrote: post #172
vannevar wrote: post #162

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I think the point is that while people have indeed groused about government waste since the dawn of government, when people actually study it, they find that the rate of fraud and waste is comparable to the private sector. See, e.g., https://www.epsu.org/sites/default/files/article/files/EN_EF... for web.pdf and https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844... . It's not that there's any more fraud or…

>it's that it's less tolerated You say that like it's a bad thing. If my favorite restaurant decides to hire management by nepotism and product degrades I can just not go there. You can't just not deal with the government so of course the standards ought to be higher.

I didn't read that at all. It reads as a statement of fact, not a values judgement.

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #211
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Assuming the goal of said systems are the same between countries: but they're not. And that's not corruption like I was saying?

Uhh... no? Not in the traditional sense of the word, no. It's how we've decided to architect our system. "Corruption" in this context typically refers to an element of dishonesty or theft and so on. If you mean "corrupt" in the ethical sense, then sure, kind of?

So the US taxpayers voluntarily asked their government to give them expensive and shitty health insurance instead of healthcare?

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Post by Xss3 »

ringeryless wrote: post #83
ginkgotree wrote: post #73

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why? it could help them asses threats, civilians / avoid collateral damage. Like any weapon or technology, it depends on its use. warfighter is the modern industry / academic term used for "soldier."

"help" (botch the job)

More like hey, ai, sit here watching uav and security camera footage from 10,000 feeds and flag short clips for human review if you think they show military activity.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by Barrin92 »

loandbehold wrote: post #77
d--b wrote: post #75

So much for humanity’s greater good Sam.

Depending on your political views it may be good if it helps USA keeping its military edge over China and preventing China from invading Taiwan.

if your goal is to deter China don't give your tax dollars to Sam Altman and instead learn how to build missiles and ships again, unless you think you're going to deter Xi with ripped off studio ghibli profile pictures

https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/10/ONI-PLAN-v...

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