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by RC_ITR 1157 days ago
I mean, I think you’re again missing the point here.

Jet engines can be solved with money.

The actual steps of making an LLM require complex math and you can’t just pay people to make better math.

And if you could, wouldn’t those people decamp for industry and become literal trillionares?
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rozal 1157 days ago
That's not how military intellectual property works. I don't doubt your technical credentials, but I think you lack deeper insight to what the military does, and has done.
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RC_ITR 1156 days ago
>That's not how military intellectual property works.

So your implication is that the military is full of unnamed linear algebra, systems engineering, and linguistics super geniuses and these people never leave, never talk about their work publicly, never publish anything ever, and they're all cool with their huge innovations being kept away from the public forever? All because military IP regulation?

And none of these effective state prisoners ever defect to China (where they could live like royalty) because...

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rozal 1155 days ago
Yes. That’s exactly how it works. Here is a brilliant one admitting to JUST that: https://youtu.be/8rHTff55fq4 (at the end)
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stevenhuang 1153 days ago
Ah the reverse engineering of crashed ET craft.

If that is your angle, I very much agree it's possible some deep black project exists that (once) looked into this. In the UFO lore, there are many stories about these advances (tr3b etc).

But all of it is orthogonal to LLMs though. Picking one exceptional area that the military is great at (aerospace) does not suddenly make the military exceptional in other areas like AI.

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rozal 1153 days ago
Who said anything about aliens? If we invented the nuclear bomb 36 years after the discovery of the atom, we did the same with virtual particles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU7nPDcTuY&t

See above video, even code breaking machines are kept a dark secret. LLM's that could make analytical decisions about war and strategy, must have started with the military first. It explains its massive data gathering operations in the 2000's. And it explains why some countries separation to make their own internet, away from what really is the US-Owned World Wide Web.

U.S. military has engaged in the commercialization of top-secret technologies (after it's considered obsolete by military standards), often by collaborating with private companies or research institutions.

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