Ridiculous idea. Instead, we should build our mighty datacentres in the chilly ocean of the ice moon Europa, which contains twice as much water as all the world’s oceans combined. By the time the waste heat turns the ice-moon into a water moon, then a steam-moon, we’ll have built up enough compute to compute new ice-moons into existence from scratch

nato is a heckin’ epic defensive alliance that is completely isolated from either its own actions or the actions of its members. it is an ideal, a pure monad representing the defence of the free world against authoritarianism. the “free world” is also a pure monad that has nothing to do with the actions of any of its members.

19 y/o IDF Lt. Colonel

Oh yes he did. The President of the United States is also the President of America’s vassals.

We should be building the Gordie Howe underground ballistic missile complex instead

An automated factory employing machine learning algorithms is very different from an LLM chatbot. They both get lumped together as “AI” (which doesn’t exist), but machine learning is actually useful

e: to get more specific, machine learning “AI” does things like predict how molecules will bind to proteins, for purposes of creating novel pharmaceuticals or whatever. a far cry from “@grok is this real”

It is. They’re definitely getting better, and that’s not to say they were “bad” in the first place, just not as good as the multi-year vets from the Ukraine war.

I saw that one! His only mistake was coming in low - the propeller wash blew the drone off course. If he came in from the top it would have been sucked right down into the rotors and killed the chopper. It can serve as a lesson for the next time

One thing I’ve noticed about the Hezbollah guys is that they tend to go in a little too fast. You gotta slow down a little, take your time to get it right on the money

Ah! You’re from any given Canadian large city I see

You don’t have to worry about that too much, the mighty chinese industrial economy will steamroll the american scam economy before they’re able to implement their plans worldwide. Now, we in western countries might end up trapped in a prison society where all information is controlled by LLM chatbots, but it won’t be the fate of the whole world.

It is relevant, though. They’re geopolitically aligned with China and are the junior partner. It’s ridiculous to think that they’re the biggest threat to world peace

1989 was a dogshit year, I say rolling it back to the mid-70s or so. Then you’re also undoing Chernobyl.

They aren’t ideologically aligned (at least for the most part), but they’re geopolitically aligned by circumstance.

YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE MANMADE HORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION.

Ultimately I think things’ll work out ok, though.

the occluded lavigne…

slava

Thank God for imbuing you with skepticism

You can’t let a pesky volk get in the way of the endsieg

Didn’t I say “admirable future goal” rather than “good idea right now”? Eventually, society ought to progress to the point where money is no longer needed, through both development of productive forces and development of societal attitudes. This is the goal of communism. The concept of money is only a few thousand years old, and humanity existed for hundreds of thousands of years longer than it, so it’s by no means impossible.

Did you ever watch the Star Trek shows? The Federation in Star Trek doesn’t have money. Both because they have replicators and can instantly reproduce any item using only energy, but also because they’re a more advanced society that has moved beyond needing a medium of exchange