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Re:OpenAI: Introducing SuperAlignment by gregw2 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:06AM (#36613206)
US DOD fuel use being the level of Sweden doesn’t seem problematic to my envelope-math; it seems to reflect the size of the entities involved.

Iraq is a now broken third word country/economy in recovery so not a great comparable to US. Sweden is small but a good comparable culturally/development-wise. US is 331 million people. It spends 3% of GDP on military. 3% of 331m is 10 million. Sweden is 10 million people. U.S. military fuel use is in line with Sweden’s.

I could be off here (DOD!=US military?), corrections welcome, but I wouldn’t even be shocked if a military entity uses 3-10x more fuel than a civilian average and above math puts us surprisingly close to 1x.

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Re:OpenAI: Introducing SuperAlignment by climatologist on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:48AM (#36615693)
Math seems correct but US military also includes conglomerates and companies like Palantir and Anduril (main reason it is described as an industrial complex is because there is no clear distinction between corporations and how their activities are tied up with military spending and energy use).
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