Many mention ITAR or some other issue, nothing about this project is even close to ITAR (as far I understand), connecting camera to rocket using it as guidance will get in trouble most likely, if not mistake only thing allowed is using camera to AIM at sun.
MANPADS are certainly covered by ITAR. It could probably be effectively argued by his lawyers that what he has created isn't truly MANPADS but rather just an edgy toy that superficially resembles a weapon system but isn't actually capable of performing as one. Maybe that would work, but I think his chance of getting dragged into the legal system for this or for some chickenshit like weed possession are very high, particularly if the media at large picks up this story.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g states that just having a system "intended to launch or guide a rocked or missile described in... [description of MANPAD type rocket]" carries life imprisonment. He calls it a manpad and then shows a system intended to launch it.
There is no consideration in the law whether he actually plans to use it or ever meant any violence, nor any consideration of whether it violates ITAR.
As someone who has a lot of interest in weapons law, this is probably about the only kind of weapon that can't be even legally contemplated in the USA, worst case for almost anything else you can get an NFA stamp. The USA is absolutely paranoid about yielding their air power so they come down like a ton of bricks against anyone that might want to defend against that.
I don't see how this system matches the description of subparagraph (A).
The missile is fed a static gps coordinate at launch via the umbilical, and has no mechanism in the missile or launcher to "seek or proceed toward energy radiated or reflected from an aircraft or toward an image locating an aircraft" or
"otherwise direct or guide the rocket or missile to an aircraft", which is the requirement in subparagraph A.
INAL, so I would like to understand why you think this applies?
I'm no lawyer either but he literally calls it a "MANPADS Rocket and Launcher prototype."
Look up MANPADS[1] and find out what that is, it appears to pretty clearly satisfies (A).
Then look at (B) and note a launcher that merely intends to launch something that satisfies (A) counts, and then note he straight up calls it a MANPADS launcher prototype. There is no requirement that it actually be capable of doing so.
Also note in his other short, the guy shows a network of cameras doing tracking of a drone[2] and claims that is an intended guidance system. He claims the guidance is updated to the rocket while in flight, with his diagram clearly showing the target as the emblem of an aircraft.
There seems to be a jurisdictional escape clause in the sense that possession without use within the US without the intent to attack aircraft may not fall into interstate commerce. In which case the state law would govern the act.
Note they started adding the "interstate commerce" in there after the first version of the gun-free school zone act was found unconstitutional. Which then continued on to do the exact same thing when amended.
It's a distinction without difference.
Post Wickard v Filburn, mere possession of something has been found to be interstate commerce even if it's just a plant grown on your own property for your own consumption without ever entering interstate commerce. Note the controlled substance act depends on the same interstate commerce clause but they've upheld federal convictions for simple possession without showing any actual effect to commerce -- instead arguing that they've influenced interstate commerce by deciding to not participate in it and that if people did that in aggregate it would affect interstate commerce therefore it is interstate commerce. Complete madness obviously, but that's where we are.
"In Lopez, the Court held that while Congress had broad lawmaking authority under the Commerce Clause, the power was limited and did not extend so far from "commerce" as to authorize the regulation of the carrying of handguns, especially when there was no evidence that carrying them affected the economy on a massive scale. (In a later case, United States v. Morrison, the Court ruled in 2000 that Congress could not make such laws even when there was evidence of aggregate effect.)"
the links says explosives + guidance system, but guidance system still allowed in hobby project as long aim toward sun (eg. sun is the target, same for stabilization), I think having horizontal stabilization hitting an target would be equal to breaking law.
The theme is guidance systems. Especially guidance computers. That's the big big big no-no. I'm surprised this still hasn't been taken down and house flashbanged and all.
I don't understand this, for example, what would you have done if you where Ukrainian right now ? (before 2014 arguably start of conflict and after invasion)
That is an interesting question, very far from my daily concern and brings dilemmas when I think about it. My response would probably be "I don’t know".
However Anthropic situation is very different: there’s no ongoing invasion of the USA, and they traditionally attack other countries once in a while (no judgment) so the weapons upgrade will be "useful" on the field.
It is of course possible to argue that the reason there is no ongoing invasion of the USA is because of our continued investment in technology for killing people
I am 100% against militarism and wished we didn't need any of this, but the power balance between Russia and Ukraine or even Israel and the Palestinians seem to corroborate the thesis... There likely would be no Ukraine war today if Ukraine hadn't voluntarily given up its nukes three decades ago (unproven thesis). There was one as Russia thought it could win. The ongoing (after the "peace fire") Israeli occupation and attacks of the remnants of Palestinian territory show the same. If you are the weaker party and there is a stronger party that wants what you have (or plain wants to eradicate you) then they'll do so..
> I don't understand this, for example, what would you have done if you where Ukrainian right now ? (before 2014 arguably start of conflict and after invasion)
There are a lot of well meaning people that are very anti-weapon or anti-violence under any circumstances. The problem is that when those people actually need those weapons and that violence, they are so inadequate at it that they become a liability to themselves and others.
I'm not saying I have or know of a solution, but I remember the old saying (paraphrasing) that it's better to be a warrior working a farm than a farmer working a war.
Or may be education should be more dynamic, engaging, and interactive, instead of having lowest paid teacher jobs, with overcrowded classes, heavenly focused on boring memorization (without clear purpose), and boring tests.
in modern day, at least stories I heard, criminals will be placed in temp holding sell (worst places), once max time in temp jail is expiring (legally allowed), they just add new charges, so effectively, you will be held in worst jail cell possible for weeks if not months, this is how I understood from stories of multiple life time criminals with 10+ years in jail time served.
I think there is a language issue here (doesn’t seem like English is their first language?), so I suspect the original comments intent was different than what it actually says
GPT has no sense, or care when it is wrong or right, such sense is only (arguably) driven by human through prompt interaction and throughout training of model, while humans and other animals able to update there's internal state just from single observation or interaction, and integrate future information with such single observation for very long time.
And other inputs from the environment. Then there were mechanisms which could also be neural networks that will transform this data into more digestible way for GPT and GPT was also in addition specifically trained to act based on this input.
Then it would run in cycles, where it gets this input, and it will provide output on how it plans to react to the data, maybe every 100ms.
It then could also have a storage it can use, where it can store data as part of the output to later retrieve it again.
So it would be a set of modules that is controlled and interpreted by GPT.
It could then do all of that above, no? And all of it should be just a matter of implementing. The only near time challenges may be certain types of inaccuracies and or producing tokens in some cases might take too long time to have fast reaction time.
So basically you'll try to run as frequent cycles as possible with the inputs mentioned above, other neural networks identifying the objects, in many different ways and all the context about the environment, unless a new version of GPT becomes completely multi-modal.
And you run those loops, then GPT gives output what it wishes to do, e.g. store some fact for later usage, move there, move here, etc. Or retrieve some information using embeddings then decide again, and short term memory would just be this context sized window, and if it needs more it just looks into its own memory for embeddings.
how system updates and maintains own model(s) when new information added in form of single/few observation and/or interactions, without ability to replay data, without catastrophic forgetting etc..., and importantly, how such system's model(s) grow in complexity while retaining stability and redundancies.
I tried Optery, Incogni, and long time ago OneRep, way to lazy to do it myself, don't worry they will have my info, data is already on internet.
Incogni at least in there's claim offers opt-out from private databases (no way to verify ) and some but not all public database (eg. google searches).
Optery has largest list of public databases (with most expensive subscription) out of everyone else, there's costumer service is responsive regarding failed removal.
OneRep was not bad long time ago when they run it from Belarus (I know, crazy), but they would refresh somehow search caches too (it could be ok, or make things worse), they don't seem to offer advertise this service any more.
Don't search your self only via google, for example, bing will give different results, some databases will have misspelled names (could be deliberately), so there still some work to make sure all records are removed.
At this point, this is like privacy tax that you have to budget to have at least your address on cell phone number not easily discoverable.
seems like wrong case study, cli power (at least for me) is in comments and record keeping what has been done months if not years ago, and an "easy way" to script repetitive tasks, I just don't see how same thing can be achieved with GUI:
record video and then comment it ?
have detailed logs what button, and what fields where edits/pressed ?
I'm going to guess that that database moved to RDS and, once there, was likely refactored as services were decomposed to microservices... but that's not mentioned in the article.
https://www.youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems is similar project, also by actual defense contractor, and less opensource.