On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:
My memory may not serve me well, but when I susbcribed to TML it didn't say the discussion was confined to Traveller canon, whatever VERSION that is.

I don't have ANY goals for my membership of TML, like a gold membership card or 'most arrogant in fewest posts' :-)

No comment.
 
A competent Squad NCO ...
 
A lieutenant ...
 
An air force pilot ...

And all of these individuals have *years* of training and experience in dealing with tense, multiple-input environments.

They are NOT common "single-striper" infantrymen being expected to handle such multiple inputs and not create a host friendly fire incidents.

Neither are they early 2000s born - or even "late 2100s born" - child drone operators being expected to do the same, fresh from their cradles.


Frankly its irrational that the Humanity's militaries would not have made ANY progress in developing battlespace awareness; just look at where they were in late 18th century.

It's not a military issue. It's a human brain issue. Expanding the number of inputs does not automatic expand the capability. The same meat brain is having to process all that data. Without extensive training, the brain's ability to process will simply be swamped. You *could* hand a portion of this necessary processing off to automation, but then you're trusting that your automation's programming is not going to make it's own errors. You may well find yourself becoming an expanding ball of plasma and particulates, because your dog-brain AI mis-assigned a low priority to a particular set of actually-vital data. 

Cyborg is a rather more defined term than you think . . .

I did not mean "Terminator robot." I meant EXACTLY what you had put forward: children who remotely control drones from birth. That would have to include "mechatronic integrations." Unless you're seriously supposing a newborn infant can use a Gameboy remote? Or else you didn't actually mean your "from birth" and this was mere hyperbole?


I prefer 'extraterrestrial culture' to an 'alien race'. Its so 50s.

It's "alien" - as in "not of previous human experience" - because of the way that the entity's brain would need to *effectively* incorporate multiple perspectives into it's functioning FROM BIRTH. It matters not at all where the culture is located.

If you're going to post hyperbole, be prepared to have your insanity taken seriously. Or simply ignored along with the rest of your post (as I probably should be doing anyway).

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