What? I don’t get this. Also, why should weapons developers care whether their products are distinctive? Having better weapons helps, and being better is being distinctive, but so is being worse.
I apologize. I should have been clearer.
I mean that if a group of weapons developers, such as, for instance, the Manhattan Project, discovers certain
critical technical data necessary to their weapons, such as, for instance, the critical mass of Pu-239, they will
often prefer that these truths not spread to other groups. For as long as they are able to keep this knowledge
secret, it is indeed a set of truths that makes this set of weapons designers distinct from other groups.
But if other developers are incorrect, then you’d want to be correct; and if other developers are correct, you’d still want to be correct. Put game-theoretically, accuracy strictly dominates inaccuracy. By contrast, isnt’ distinctiveness only good when it doesn’t compromise accuracy?
Most groups of weapon developers probably hope to keep their knowledge distinct from that of other groups for as long as they can...
What? I don’t get this. Also, why should weapons developers care whether their products are distinctive? Having better weapons helps, and being better is being distinctive, but so is being worse.
I apologize. I should have been clearer. I mean that if a group of weapons developers, such as, for instance, the Manhattan Project, discovers certain critical technical data necessary to their weapons, such as, for instance, the critical mass of Pu-239, they will often prefer that these truths not spread to other groups. For as long as they are able to keep this knowledge secret, it is indeed a set of truths that makes this set of weapons designers distinct from other groups.
Oh, I see now. Thanks for clarifying.
But if other developers are incorrect, then you’d want to be correct; and if other developers are correct, you’d still want to be correct. Put game-theoretically, accuracy strictly dominates inaccuracy. By contrast, isnt’ distinctiveness only good when it doesn’t compromise accuracy?