So I thought I'd share them with you. I had Grok do a basic summation. I don't know that I can post a PDF, though.

Essentially, its the cost of a war, divided by the lifetime earnings of someone from that society - EG, the GWOT cost about 3-4MM "lives". The Cold War about 7-8MM, etc.

So far Ukraine is about 90K American lives.

Grok achieves competitive factual and coding performance, though like all large language models, it remains prone to hallucinations and unverified search citations.

lol, my AI engine is prejudiced about Grok and its accuracy.

Is Grok. Crock?

War costs lives?!?!?!?????? Who woulda thought?

Another triumph for AI!

I use Perplexity-it passed my various veracity tests. My requirements include primary sources such as published papers in journals rather than reports about such in response to my inquiries.

If any answer seems odd or flaky I go to the referenced source document to verify.

My main caveat is “Trust but verify!”

Perplexity, and I presume others, check papers for the research subjects and conclusions only, not reading nor analyzing underlying data and evidence. I have found a Social Science (oxymoron) in which the data did not support the hypothesis at all.

Just be circumspect when using any AI!

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Originally posted by egregore:

Now- - - That is hilarious!! I am stealing the meme!! Thank you!!

Yes yes. Very funny.

It just seemed a useful way to think of things.

Firing a “cheap” 5MM missile, is two American “lives”.

Ukraine, so far, has cost 90,000.

(Yes it’s very messy to catalog but it seems like a way to get a handle on very large numbers).

The “super efficient” SSA consumes 5500-15,000 lives per year, depending on which costs are attributed to it.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam