The new hypersonic missiles can be far different. Than people thought.

"The Pentagon has outlined plans to acquire at least 10,000 lower-cost cruise missiles over the next three years, as well as a similar number of relatively ‘cheap’ Blackbeard hypersonic missiles. The new framework deals are part of a broader strategy to dramatically bolster America’s stockpiles of standoff strike munitions and prime the industrial base to sustain those inventories going forward. This is all seen as especially critical for supporting the demands of future high-end fights, such as one in the Pacific against China, and doing so in a cost-effective manner." (TWZ, 10,000 Low-Cost Cruise Missiles In Three Years Procurement Plan Laid Out By Pentagon (Updated))

The new hybrid technology. It can make the hypersonic missiles even more dangerous. The new hypersonic missiles are. Quite a small size. This means that the larger drones or drone-type carriers. Like modified stealth cruise missiles can carry those missiles to the operational area. There is a possibility. A high-flying drone can transport the hypersonic weapon to the strike distance. Another version could be the modified stealth cruise missile. Which can be equipped with a bomb bay. The missile or drone can be launched from the B-52 or some other aircraft. 

The Pentagon starts to load the Precision Strike Missile, PrSM, with drones and miniature glide bombs. Those systems can also be installed on a larger scale. ICBM missiles. 

The stealth missile will carry that hypersonic missile to the right point. And then it can drop. That missile is to travel to the target. When that system launches the missile. The reason. That system requires the internal carrying bay. Is that. The stealth structure must not be broken. This kind of system can increase. The power of the strike capacity. The stealth cruise missile or drone can transport that weapon deep into the enemy territory. And that makes it hard for defense. 

"PrSM Ballistic Missiles Loaded With Coyote Drones, Hatchet Mini Smart Bombs Eyed By Army.Army Precision Strike Missiles loaded with precision munitions or drones would offer new ways to wreak havoc deep inside enemy territory." (TWZ)

In some visions. The new systems are cruise missiles, which can be launched by using ballistic missiles. These kinds of systems don’t necessarily have to be hypersonic. The subsonic stealth cruise missile with a heat shield and an air-brake brakechute. It can be launched through the orbital trajectory. When that system. Re-enters atmosphere. It starts its turbojet. 

The AI-controlled cruise missiles can have afterburners. And an ability to change their speeds can be a hard target for air defense. The ability to shoot a hypersonic missile through the orbiter. It is not a new idea. The origin of that idea was in the Soviet Union. The original idea was that some Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles carried the ramjet, or scramjet-driven atmospheric system. 

When that system re-enters the atmosphere. The air-breathing hypersonic engine gets air. And then. At the right altitude, the fuel injection to the engine starts. The speed of those missiles can be at least Mach 6. And they are far larger than the Kinzhal missiles that were used in Ukraine. The ICBM missiles can also deliver drones to operational areas. The system can be loaded with quadcopters or anti-drone drones. Those small drones can be very dangerous. If they dropped to the target area. The problem is that even small drones can be dangerous. To supersonic stealth fighters. 

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-fast-tracks-stealth-nuclear-cruise-missile

https://www.twz.com/land/blackbeard-cheap-hypersonic-strike-missile-being-developed-for-u-s-army

https://www.twz.com/land/prsm-ballistic-missiles-loaded-with-coyote-drones-hatchet-mini-smart-bombs-eyed-by-army

https://www.twz.com/sea/10000-low-cost-cruise-missiles-in-three-years-procurement-plan-laid-out-by-pentagon

Pericles, Socrates, and artificial intelligence.

Above:  Pericles, Socrates, and artificial intelligence. 

When we think that people outsource thinking to AI, we can ask whether those people outsource that ability to some outside thing anyway? Are thoughts already outsourced? The AI as a replacer. The human thinker. It is the end of the long journey. In ancient Greece, regular people outsourced thinking to philosophers. The problem with philosophers is that if something went wrong, people blamed them. That brought a new way to make philosophy. 

That thing is called sophism. Sophism is one of the most harmful things to philosophy. The idea of sophism is to please the majority. The reason for the death of Socrates was that the sophists asked why people who have wealth should abstain from using their wealth. The key element in Socratic philosophy is moderation in everything. People. Who received the sentence of death? Understood that they should share their wealth or give it away for free. 

So if something didn’t please people, the reason for that was in the philosopher. Not a person who misunderstood those orders. Those orders or advice were somehow complicated. After. The time of ancient Greece. People outsourced their ability to think to the universities. Regular people had time to sit in beer houses and leave dark things to people who had time to think about things like falling meteorites. Why should people read things like complex mathematics if they have good salaries anyway? And if something new comes to the workplace, the leader of the gang. Can. Just refuse to use that thing. 

When we think that people outsource their thoughts to AI, we mean. A situation. That person. Will just. Give the AI-generated answer forward. We can ask. Would that person read those answers anyway?  Even if. They are written. By. A real human. Politicians like Pericles. Used sophist philosophers to make text that pleased people. The people whom Pericles must please were people who made decisions in Athens. So, the sophists should only please people who have power. So, if we want to think like Pericles, we should please people who own companies. Those people make decisions. So they are people whom we should please. 

If we want. To succeed as a company leader. We must think like a banker. We must maximize incoming money flow. And minimize outgoing money flow. If we want to succeed as politicians, we must think like Pericles. We must please people. Or most people must like us. That is the conflict. And the third thing. It is. Interest of the state. The interest of the state means. The state must somehow protect its citizens. And that triangle is sometimes very hard to fit as an entirety. 

We can see artificial intelligence as an opportunity. But then. We must determine the meaning of the word: “opportunity”. The opportunity can mean that artificial intelligence makes work easier, and leaves more time for social life. But we can determine the opportunity another way. We can determine that artificial intelligence gives opportunities to fire workers. So, in the last case, we can see that. Artificial intelligence is the tool that allows one to earn more money. The AI allows workers. 

To make their work faster. And that is one of the things that requires new ways to think. In traditional capitalism, faster work means that a person can do more work. And this is one of the things that we can understand when we develop AI. The main problem with AI development is that. Money controls those corporations. We say that. The workers lose their productivity. If. They work with AI agents. But then again. We must determine productivity. If. We calculate. The productivity. As a form. Of a series of physical items. 

We can calculate: how many things the worker makes. Or, if the worker works with immaterial products. Like code for the computer program, we can calculate how many acceptable code lines the worker does per day. Or maybe. We should calculate productivity. As production cycles. Each. Of the products. What a person produces is a cycle. That includes the beginning. And the end of the work. So, we can calculate. How many cycles does a worker do during the day? Then we can set the goal for that person. 

Maybe. Our worker should make five cycles each day. So, what if the worker completes those five products or production cycles in six hours? That means the worker has two hours of free time in the workplace. In traditional capitalism. That free time is the time. That is out of the time. That. The corporation pays for. So. The leaders might see that time as free time. The thing is that. The person reaches the production goal, but in a shorter time. And that means the production goal is reached, but the entire worktime is not filled. 

We can also determine. The term “productivity”. As the income or profit. That the company brings to its owners. And if. We think that way, we can search the department. There are four people with two free hours in a working day. And then we can fire three of those workers. That is allowed in working life. 

Another thing is that the AI causes corrosion in thinking. The corrosion means that when people use AI, they leave the answer that AI gave. Without. Even looking at it. That is one of the things that causes discussions. When we outsource our work to machines, that should make life easier. But, machines bring unemployment. We can outsource thinking to AI. And that has a corrosive effect on humanity. When we think about free time, we should also ask what the person does during their free time.  

People can go out. Or. They can go to the library. Read books. They can read books. From. The net. Or listen to recorded books. They can use “text-to-speech” applications to transform any text into speech. And listen to those things while they go jogging or to the gym. Or they can sit in social groups. And think about things. Like. How corrosive the AI can be. In that ideal model, people use their free time for self-education, advancing their ideas. And improve their skills. 

But otherwise, people can go to a bar, sit there, and drink beer. They can outsource everything to AI. And university lecturers or some other thinkers. Because those people will not get money for their studies, they don’t study. Have those people ever? Open a single book in their lives? That is one other way to think about things. 

Paranoia is one of the worst things in the state.

What is the difference between paranoia and being prepared?  This is one of the things that causes discussion. And when we look at history, the thing that we can call paranoia is the thing that destroys everything. Paranoia means that we see threats and traitors everywhere. The rumor about the spy in her headquarters. They can bring execution for the army commanders. Anonymous reports about the coup caused a situation in which military leaders could be captured. In the same way, opposition could be turned. Silent by claiming them as enemies or hostile agents. 

This causes hate and disappointment. Those things can cause thoughts about revenge. And revenge can be that the actor sells vital information to the enemy. 

And then those things can cause more damage than any of the real spies or saboteurs can make. The myth about the “fifth colony,” the large-scale saboteur network, creates a situation in which qualified officers will be removed and replaced by trusted officers. The myth of the fifth colony has its beginning in the Spanish Civil War. General Franco, whose troops besieged Madrid, said. that he had four colonies coming to town. But the fifth was already in there, and that fifth colony led the city conquer. This is the beginning of the term, the fifth colony. But the idea of the fifth colony. It is very deep.

Basically, the fifth colony is A rumor. About. a large-scale sabotage network. Was the thing. That caused. The terror. Of the Soviet Secret police. The paranoia. That everywhere could be a traitor. The situation was that the Secret Police arrested the Soviet military commanders and executed them as “traitors”.  The only thing that was needed was the anonymous report for the secret police. 

That left the military without qualified leaders. And this caused a catastrophe. Paranoia is the iconic part. Of. The authoritarian governments. Especially dictators are afraid. That somebody attacks them. That causes massive police operations. And that can remove military commanders and scientists, whose work could be important to society. This causes a situation where many important programs are delayed. And that turned the equipment old-fashioned. 

Society must be ready for the surprises. But. There is a line between being prepared. And paranoia. Security officials must have effective methods. To find real enemies. Those authorities must have the ability to seek information. If somebody really wants to harm critical infrastructure. That is not a very hard thing. But why would somebody make that thing? One of the motivations is money. And when we think about cases like Epstein, people like pedophiles are things that can offer information to hostile actors. 

And if somebody wants to harm things like the electric supply, there must not be many actors. A person may shoot things like electric wires. That causes electrical cuts. The problem with critical infrastructure is that. Cause damages for the electric supply is almost too easy. These kinds of things can give an impression. About. The large-scale sabotage. And behind those things can be only one or two people.