In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
The X-61 Gremlin project will disappoint Marvel and Doctor Who fans because the “mothership” looks nothing like a Queen Elizabeth class carrier. Instead, the flying aircraft carrier is a Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargo plane.
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Heron bested both human pilots and AIs from several other companies in five rounds to win the AlphaDogFight challenge.
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The Chicago and Stockton basic income proposals demonstrate that there is a lot of innovative social work going on in America. All sorts of people are proposing a wide variety of creative solutions for problems like poverty.
A DARPA for social services would fund innovative social programs and related work. The social work DARPA would combine charities, community groups, nonprofits, government agencies, and university researchers.
One of the social-work DARPA’s mandates would be to fund research into alternative poverty-alleviation strategies such as basic income. It would also fund the development of new technologies for benefit delivery.
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