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A comment on Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of SDI.

Re:Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and F... by throwaway13337 on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:11AM (#40316839)
The scary thing with the future of weapons is that they seem to increase plausible deniability thus changing the game theory equation to one of more aggression.

The basic tenant of a lot of the games we play are of attributing past actions to another agent. If there is no attribution, playing fair makes less sense.

Hacking, media manipulation ops, and commodity drones can be used in a way that does not reveal the origin. That means that there cannot be retribution or, more perversely, it can mean incorrect attribution and retribution.

This lowers the cost of aggressive acts substantially.

I don't have a solution to it but I hope there is one.

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Re:Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and F... by simmerup on Friday May 10, 2024 @09:15AM (#40318593)
Wonder if anyone can comment on how this played out in other periods where states could maintain large plausible deniability, like when we it was normal to hire privateers to interfere with other nations trade?

Maybe if people move towards the actions with plausible deniability, it reduces the risk of major (attributable) action being taken

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Re:Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and F... by sorokod on Friday May 10, 2024 @10:34AM (#40319520)
Privateers had to be officially sanctioned by a state (e.g. letter of marque). Don't think that plausible deniability was an expected benefit.
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Re:Weapons in Space Technology, Politics, and the Rise and F... by holonsphere on Monday May 13, 2024 @12:32AM (#40339812)
Cryptography + guerrila warfare go hand and hand. AI too if you'd believe it. Look to history.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156625352...

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