Come for the vice presidents (my PhD topic) and the robots, stay for the bureaucratic politics and whimsy. Eclectic tweets represent my opinion ONLY!!
Jul 31 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Before I got into vice presidents, I was a terrrorism researcher. I wrote one of the earlier analyses of eliminating terrorist leaders (paper linked). So I have some thoughts about the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. 1x papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
BLUF on my paper, which studies removal (by arrest, death, or natural causes) of very top leaders of terrorist groups is that it isn't a panacea. Some groups appear to get more violent after top leaders are removed. It really depends on the group. Also, the data isn't great. 2x
Nov 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Great thread from @rcalo (unsurprising) in which he discusses dynamics of using robots to manage potentially violent situations. Spoiler alert: It's a bad idea because it lowers cost of using force. I'll add, Ryan mentions shitty #AI making judgments. I'd like to add to that. 1/x
The best #AI is really, really stupid. It doesn't understand anything and its entire universe is its training set. Most situations are not violent. So your training set will be limited (and where would it come from?) Article mentions a film the company will produce. 2/x
