[EugeneAZ]

Professional military (by definition) force politicians to spend money on them.

So, every conflict becomes measurable in terms of money. Thus, citizens become aware of the true cost of it. When you have conscription, you cannot measure how much each of the soldiers loses in terms of money - they don't ask them such a question deliberately.

Also, when all citizens (women and "disabled") are forced to pay for the military equally, they will tend less to be provoked into a war - it may cost too much for them. Get it?

By the way, I would support new British Empire, if its authorities would be decent people (as it usually happened). I'm from Ukraine : )

[arethuza]

I'm pretty sure the UK defence industry isn't run primarily to equip our armed forces with decent equipment....

[Edit: UK armed forces seemed to have to suffer comparatively poor but very expensive equipment foisted on them for political reasons].

[EugeneAZ]

Here, https://www.reddit.com/user/EugeneZavidovsky - is the discusion about SMS direct democracy on another my reddit account. People are afraid even of public voting : ) Well, it's possible to make it secret with clever enough citizens, but I don't think, it is reasonable...

[EugeneAZ]

Man. They are all corrupted or just too ignorant. J.R.Nyquist can tell you even more : )

Have you ever heard of thista?

For any engineering problem one can make a "brute-force" algorithm, which theoretically finds its solution, describe that algorithm as a logical scheme (a directed graph with logic gates as nodes) and then one can use an AI agent to make that logical scheme easier to compute, by simplifying (through transformation rules like the De Morgan rule) unnecessary computation steps, input variables, etc. The solution to the problem can be found by calculation of that simplified version of the logical scheme.

The AI agent may be built from Neural Nets, or from the algorithm, which I call Evolution of Neural Graphs [0].

Some of interesting engineering problems are:

- to find a machine code for a controller of a bipedal robot [1], which makes it able to work in warehouses and factories;

- to find a machine code for a multiprocessor system [2], which behaves as an AI agent purposed for a given work to be done;

- to find a CAD file [3], which describes the design of a spheromak working with MHD generators;

- to find a file [4], which describes the manufacturing steps to produce the first molecular nanofactory in the world;

- etc…

Officials of what country would take it seriously, can you guess?

[0] https://github.com/Eug145/TetrAI/blob/master/Source-v0.92bet...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtHCFToYPY

[2] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/08/23/new-microchip-demo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynomak

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyZ9bFl_qg

I have a reddit account, you may discuss it there too.