Pro bono too, right?

Obviouslly. But that should be an "obviously" based on a expert considered and well calculated risk posture, not because many many many many many many many many scifi authors realized "Rouge AI nukes the world" is a really compelling story hook.

This article takes a descriptive view that I think few would disagree with.

But would you also agree with the *prescriptive* view that people's reference point for new tech (not just AI) shouldn't be science fiction? We value scifi stories based on their narrative quality. Accuracy isn't a factor.

Yes indeed! The gotcha to look out for though is that you cannot recover your position if you lose count of the pulses. Once you have a fix, your system must remain powered and counting pulses continuously. A lost lock is unrevocable without some other external source of position.

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You gave me a start there, since I have a mathematician relative named Ron FagIn who was the right age to write this, but no, different Fagen. Thanks for sharing this! I had no idea.

Blue Origin succeeded in reaching orbit on the first orbital attempt.