The Future of War, and How It Affects YOU (Multi-Domain Operations) - Smarter Every Day 211

Check out this video by 'smertereveryday': ▶ this video He has access to a 4 star general who gives him a little too much information. The first screen in the video is that it has been approved for public release. The military understands the situation. You can see why they are purchasing internet data. I don't see the problem. Who exactly has been punished by this? Or even snowden? NSA is spying on everyone? But is there people in prison for this? If so, were they people who did need to go to prison? You can pretty much bet every country has 'lawful intercept'

That's really just the result of the decreasing trust within society. "Bowling Alone" is a good book that tries to explore the underlying reasons for this development, that started some time in the 1960s. The current "war" in cyberspace probably contributes to it as well. Here is an interesting interview with a US four star general about that new area of conflict: ▶ this video

Sadly, that is very likely a main reason. Political discussion isn't so much about the exchange of views anymore, but about "winning" and "destroying" the other side. And there is a reason for that. There is an interesting interview with a US 4-Star General about the topic of "controlling the public" in cyberspace: ▶ this video

Relevant video by Smarter Every Day[0]. Basically interviewing military people talk about the information part of war in the modern era. > I just made a weapon?! -Dustin @21:35 [0] ▶ this video

I see the point but it is a narrow and modernist characterization of other minds on the matter. A lot of perfectly decent people do defense work and don't really need the paychecks (the famous Youtuber SmarterEveryDay comes to mind). Here are a few reasons why: 1) Many work on oft maligned technologies because they simply see no moral conundrum. It's common to see tools as amoral, and believe moral responsibility in the use of tools for good or evil lies solely with its wielder - not any inventor or refiner. 2) Or, they may see their work as their moral duty as a competent professional in a society fending off morally worse alternatives. This is the patriotic or "necessary evil" view. 3) A few utilitarian engineers see the refinement of technology in and of itself as always a subtle moral good, as they believe the elimination of inefficiency is the primary reason why humanity no longer suffers as much as it used to. There's also the assumption that the development of any kind of tech leads to unanticipated benefits to other areas of life (this is a common demonstrated pattern in defense R&D). 4) There's also the classical Greek justification of Eudaimonia. Simply doing what one does best is seen as the most moral thing one can do, as it eliminates any outward and internal dishonesty about ones self. PS: Here is a great video by SmarterEveryDay explaining what he does and why ▶ this video

The educational Youtube channel SmarterEveryDay made a video about his day job as a military rocket engineer. It's an insightful how-and-why explanation for those wondering why there aren't more conscientious objectors: ▶ this video

This might be it: ▶ this video From 2019: "For the last 15 years I have worked for the Army Test Evaluation Command."

Just the other day I brought up that many countries use things like memes to modify public perception. Topic was about China but I brought up that everyone else does it too (US, Russia, Israel, Germany, etc) and people thought it was insane and a conspiracy theory(specifically that anyone would want to influence Reddit because it is "a small website"). It honestly feels like we're gaslighting ourselves because this topic has been so openly discussed over the last 50 years that it is hard to say that this isn't happening. Though maybe because I suggested agencies use memes now instead of more well known sock puppets. Even on HN news I've been downvoted for this. I guess people don't think memes are being weaponized, even when they are explicitly referred to as such by those in the military[0] and other agencies. Actually one thing I've liked about The Boys (on Prime) is how it shows the viral marketing of Stormfront and how it is manipulating people (and how people didn't even notice the not even remotely subtle naming of the character). I guess that just shows how effective of a tool all this is. [0] ▶ this video

> If it was a foreign military's advanced aircraft, this is them admitting that, yep, your stealth/whatever technology works great, and we are baffled by it. I have an alternative explanation that also matches with history. They know what it is but don't want to tell the public. They can also feed bad information to adversaries like China and Russia who may interpret this is over confidence in their technologies. Here's a simple analogy. My cat is really dumb and will step right in front of me in the middle of the night when it is dark because she thinks I can see her (because she can see me). So at night I over exaggerate my inability to see in the dark. Now she thinks she is super sneaky (she's not) but also gets out of my way at night. All wars (especially cold wars, like the one we're in) are about information control. There is lots of propaganda, misdirection, lying, etc. An adversary having over confidence in their technology means that they will use it with that confidence. Think about WW2 and when the Enigma encryption was broken by Turing's team. They didn't reveal that they broke the encryption and let some people be attacked and prevented others (this led to some of the big foundations in game theory as well). Now we know this is a possibility, so do the Russians and Chinese. But the pentagon could also be telling the truth. These videos could also be complete fabrications or lucky shots that are natural phenomena that fool instruments. If Russia has the tech and d

Destin, the person behind Smarter Every Day was ex-military and he interviewed his old commanding officer. It was clearly mentioned that the military is doing this to reach out to potential recruits while sharing interesting knowledge. I believe the actual episode is ▶ this video

Ok so destin works as a scientist for the us gov. He did a video a while ago where he interviewed a general about the cyber domain of warfare. In this interview they discussed that the interview itself was part of that cyber domain, and the access they provide to destin is a part of the US presence in the cyber domain. [0] The pentagon clearly sees smarter everyday as a channel to spread information to a certain audience, to show off US capability and serve as a recruitment material. I respect Destin a lot and I think the video is very cool, but I feel that I should add a sort of disclaimer because I'm actively aiding the US gov by spreading this video? they obviously don't care about you knowing it's propaganda, but it cant hurt to emphasize it. Tbh my thinking about this isn't that crystallized yet but I thought it might spark an interesting side discussion. 0: ▶ this video see 21:00+ for cyberdomain talk

ATEC handles basically everything under the sun. I'm not that familiar with him, but he mentions a couple of types he's helped test for ATEC in this video: ▶ this video link link Judging by the video's contents, he's worked on more than just missiles. I'm not trying to absolve Uber or something, for the record: the people who work for Uber aren't innocent, either. It just seems clear that they're a lesser evil. Malpractice versus malfeasance.