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Comment Re: AI 'race' (Score 1) 133

Good question. The CBO expects it to cost $800 billion, the white house says $175 billion.

Practically speaking, America already has an advanced ICBM defense system, although as currently deployed, it is aimed at stopping missiles from a rogue state (specifically North Korea).

In the end, the Golden Dome might just end up buying a bunch of ground-based THAAD interceptor missiles (which are already in production), along with some space-based detector satellites. The sooner you can stop a missile, the cheaper it is because MIRV (multiple-independent-reentry-vehicle) ICBMS are very expensive to stop once they've split, because there are a lot of them and they are moving fast (along the order of mach 25). So if you can stop them earlier in flight it's cheaper. Estimate roughly $1 billion dollars spent to stop an ICBM in the terminal phase, so stopping a full launch of nuclear missiles by Russia would cost trillions of dollars.

The controversial part of Golden Dome is putting interceptors in space, since that is weaponizing outer space. That also concerns me, but we might not actually get there. The idea of ICBM interceptors is controversial to some people, but those people don't realize it already exists, and is deployed.

Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 1) 131

ok, it sounds like you have opinions on certain policies, although you probably don't understand them entirely and should do more research. But basically there's no problem with that. I don't expect you to be omniscient and I'm not.

The problem is when you go around hating people. Don't do that.

Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 1, Insightful) 131

He is way smarter than you

Yes he is.

There are many medical conditions that blur gender identity, making blanket statements for political points is hateful and ignorant.

I don't care if you disagree with people who are trans. I don't care if you're smarter than me. But if you hate them, then you're wrong.

Change, don't be a hater.

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