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Darren Farber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
380 total appearances

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

At its simplest form, it's just the ability for all these things to what we would call C4ISR or C5ISR. It's this command to control of these connected things. And we've designed everything to be connected. And I think the next iteration is going to be these things actually have to be autonomous systems.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

At its simplest form, it's just the ability for all these things to what we would call C4ISR or C5ISR. It's this command to control of these connected things. And we've designed everything to be connected. And I think the next iteration is going to be these things actually have to be autonomous systems.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

and have to have inertial navigation and these other things that, assuming it's flying in the dark, it's not connected to GPS, it's not connected to something else in the ground, it's not connected to a mesh network, it's going to have to have its own situational awareness individually when a network is denied.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

and have to have inertial navigation and these other things that, assuming it's flying in the dark, it's not connected to GPS, it's not connected to something else in the ground, it's not connected to a mesh network, it's going to have to have its own situational awareness individually when a network is denied.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

Just the ability to pump in an end goal for something to go prosecute it is kind of spectacular. I view it very similar to the paradigm of when we're going to let the Waymos drive us 100% kind of thing. Like, there's going to be this...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

Just the ability to pump in an end goal for something to go prosecute it is kind of spectacular. I view it very similar to the paradigm of when we're going to let the Waymos drive us 100% kind of thing. Like, there's going to be this...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

push and pull of who's going to grab the yoke on all these activities and i think something that doesn't have well-defined joint doctrine is actually going to do much better with ai because they're more likely to just give it over to them just tell me what to do as opposed to us where we have well-defined protocol and paradigms and we're not going to give over the steering wheel as easily that's harder the fighter pilot union if you will is going to fight pretty hard

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

push and pull of who's going to grab the yoke on all these activities and i think something that doesn't have well-defined joint doctrine is actually going to do much better with ai because they're more likely to just give it over to them just tell me what to do as opposed to us where we have well-defined protocol and paradigms and we're not going to give over the steering wheel as easily that's harder the fighter pilot union if you will is going to fight pretty hard

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

about what they do or don't give up. But I wouldn't give up on human ingenuity to hack a system, to screw up a system, to trick a system. I'm not saying we should exclusively rely on that.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

about what they do or don't give up. But I wouldn't give up on human ingenuity to hack a system, to screw up a system, to trick a system. I'm not saying we should exclusively rely on that.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

My greatest hope is that there's symmetry in the development of these technologies that functionally make them moot for adversaries and us to use, is that we end up in a new form of Cold War. So it's an arms race. It's mutually assured destruction. I think the amazing thing about the Ukrainian contingency is Putin has threatened nuclear activity. How many times? And he hasn't used it.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

My greatest hope is that there's symmetry in the development of these technologies that functionally make them moot for adversaries and us to use, is that we end up in a new form of Cold War. So it's an arms race. It's mutually assured destruction. I think the amazing thing about the Ukrainian contingency is Putin has threatened nuclear activity. How many times? And he hasn't used it.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And so I say to myself, wow, he has this arsenal of nuclear capability and he is not prepared to cross it, even though he almost went through a coup, which Bellingcat accurately predicted. My hope is that if we can develop symmetrical capabilities over time and if one person pulls out too far ahead. then there will be this enormous temptation to flex.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And so I say to myself, wow, he has this arsenal of nuclear capability and he is not prepared to cross it, even though he almost went through a coup, which Bellingcat accurately predicted. My hope is that if we can develop symmetrical capabilities over time and if one person pulls out too far ahead. then there will be this enormous temptation to flex.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And so that's the challenge in a race to the future is you just can't be second. You just can't. You just can't allow it because the human temptation, war is a human endeavor. And by the way, I should say, I trust the United States, a democracy to be more measured than any other end user of something.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And so that's the challenge in a race to the future is you just can't be second. You just can't. You just can't allow it because the human temptation, war is a human endeavor. And by the way, I should say, I trust the United States, a democracy to be more measured than any other end user of something.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And my hope is that we pull away and that creates the new opportunity for Dayton because I think in an alternative scenario, it'd be a lot more dangerous. What about the other path? The worst is the march of technology puts more and more power in fewer and fewer people's hands.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

And my hope is that we pull away and that creates the new opportunity for Dayton because I think in an alternative scenario, it'd be a lot more dangerous. What about the other path? The worst is the march of technology puts more and more power in fewer and fewer people's hands.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

There are a lot of stories of we run these nuclear drills and then the missileer won't turn the key or something like that. There's a human. And so technology is removing people in a lot of these steps. And then it's also putting these capabilities and things that were exclusively the provenance of nation states. And now it's like it could be a company of 100 people. And so technology

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]

There are a lot of stories of we run these nuclear drills and then the missileer won't turn the key or something like that. There's a human. And so technology is removing people in a lot of these steps. And then it's also putting these capabilities and things that were exclusively the provenance of nation states. And now it's like it could be a company of 100 people. And so technology