{"id":59208,"date":"2018-05-06T02:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=59208"},"modified":"2018-05-06T02:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T02:24:48","slug":"new-book-strategy-evolution-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=59208","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Strategy, Evolution and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>mark safranski<\/strong> \/ &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"absimg\" src=\"https:\/\/html2-f.scribdassets.com\/6wxmjvtzeo65sww3\/images\/1-9ee51284bf.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"859\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strategy-Evolution-War-Artificial-Intelligence\/dp\/1626165807\"><strong>Strategy, Evolution and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/kclpure.kcl.ac.uk\/portal\/kenneth.payne.html\"><strong>Kenneth Payne<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book by Kenneth Payne of <strong>King&#8217;s College\u00a0<\/strong> is newly released by <strong>Georgetown Press<\/strong>. I saw it mainly by chance while perusing my twitter feed and ordered a copy. At first glance, it looks very promising, albeit I have a bias toward cultural evolutionary frameworks. Perhaps it will get me more up to speed on the implications of <strong>Ai<\/strong> for emerging warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Just thumbing through, Payne has a solid bibliography and some intriguing chapter and section headings. For example:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hoplite Revolution:Warriors, Weapons and Society<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Passionate Statesmen and Rational Bands<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The Ai Renaissance ad Deep Learning<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Chimps are Rational Strategists, Contra Humans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enough to whet the appetite. May discuss <strong>Strategy, Evolution and War<\/strong> further after I finish it.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been reading in the realm of strategy or war lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[mark safranski \/ &#8220;zen&#8220;] Strategy, Evolution and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence by Kenneth Payne This book by Kenneth Payne of King&#8217;s College\u00a0 is newly released by Georgetown Press. I saw it mainly by chance while perusing my twitter feed and ordered a copy. At first glance, it looks very promising, albeit I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,360,216,1122,414,420,133,304,524,37,367,605,13,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1545","category-21st-century","category-academia","category-ai","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-book","category-defense","category-evolution","category-futurism","category-military-history","category-tactics","category-theory","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59209,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59208\/revisions\/59209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}