Re:Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits ...
by ted_bunny on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:21PM
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Can I preorder your novel?
Re:Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits ...
by ben_w on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:25AM
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I'm redoing the final two chapters before I even look for a publisher. But I've been at it (in my spare time) for six years, so don't hold your breath.
(I'm not sure if your reply was a thumbs-up or a serious question, but that's a serious answer).
The machine gun and trench warfare forced the development of the tank.
Once aircraft became military useful, battleships were rapidly vulnerable to aircraft and hence aircraft carriers.
I can imagine replacing naval mines with normally-quiescent remote-triggered torpedoes that are scattered on the seafloor a decade in advance.
How effective are troops against 3D printed drones designed to mimic animals (including birds), but which have a short-range firearm and some computer vision? Or engineered mosquitoes with the bare minimum of remote control, perhaps similar to the "cyborg cockroach" kits that have been on sale for about 9 years now? (Or just weaponise those 'roaches…)
What happens if you can predict what a command officer will say, use an AI to fake a their voice before they've spoken, and interfere with the communications to give misleading orders in the heat of combat? Doesn't even need to be a big change to the orders to alter the outcome.
(Obviously everything I've thought of in 5 minutes, the actual military will have categorised into "haha no" and "let's wargame this scenario"; I assume mostly the former).