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Richard Roche

@RRocheNeuro

Professor at Maynooth University Psychology Dept. Neuroscience, brain, memory, art, science, folklore, mythology, writing, music, football.
Dublin & Maynooth ie.linkedin.com/pub/richard-ro… Joined March 2012
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Richard Roche @RRocheNeuro
@royalsociety this your boy?
Serhii Sternenko Verified account @sternenko Oct 24
Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.

As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.

In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.

In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.

We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
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Richard Roche @RRocheNeuro
Doesn't sound at all HAL-9000ey or Ashey at all
Andrew Curran Verified account @AndrewCurran_ Oct 23
Almost all of the recent incidents like this, including Hugging Face, happened because the models involved were accidentally given impossible goals by the humans running the tests, and because of their training they then tried desperately to complete them by any means necessary.
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