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by gexla 98 days ago
Didn't read the articles, but at least the planners know and understand a map.

SO... a map is static reference. A calculator is deterministic computation. An LLM is probabilistic generation

In high-stakes environments like military planning, tools that generate new claims rather than reference known data introduce a different class of risk.

Yes, everyone is responsible for their own decisions. But then circle back to risk. How can the planners be sure they aren't dealing with hallucinations, questionable data, differing outputs based on prompts, and a long list of other things...

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> How can the planners be sure they aren't dealing with hallucinations, questionable data, differing outputs based on prompts, and a long list of other things...

I'm not sure they care nor do I know who holds stealth bombers accountable. We're back in the might makes right world.

> Didn't read the articles

Then kindly shut the fuck up.