I feel like I just played some kind of weird abstract joke on myself and I don’t get it.

These people are so pathetic our country is descending into violent fascism with literal masked thugs in paramilitary gear and no identification are abducting people off the street for looking “illegal”… and they are too busy panicking about Hasan Piker saying maybe we should all have healthcare and that maybe Israel is doing a Genocide and we should not fund that…

Dangerous idiots is what they are.

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to think that healthcare and housing are a human right?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to believe the International Criminal Court when it says Israel is committing a Genocide?

Is it an extreme left-wing belief to believe in the separation between church and state?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to treat Climate Change as the most existential threat we face?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to be antifascist or “antifa” for short?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to believe all human beings are created equally and that stereotypes never capture the diversity contained within even a single person?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to respond to creepy old republican men demanding to inspect the genitals of high school kids to determine what sports team they should play on by calling them creepy weird ingrown human beings instead of coddling them?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to tax billionaires?

Is it an “extreme left-wing” belief to respond to what your voting base demands instead of condescending them that their other option is worse so they should shut up and take the gift bag they were handed with some pens and a lanyard in it?

I get what you are saying, but I think it is a tad superficial of a read on it.

I don’t think anyone involved in this study truly believed that they wouldn’t find this data when they crunched the numbers, or believed that “just” finding evidence for their hunch would be a scientific and political waste of time.

What this does is provide evidence in no uncertain terms for this phenomena, of course that doesn’t change how you or I see it, but it does meaningfullly change the power balance a tiny bit in rhetoric when studies like this come out.

kdenlive

Conservatives idolize Trump, this is just part of the kayfabe.

The ironic thing is longterm there is a steady market for VR if game developers are given time and agency to build it, it is way more revolutionary than AI in my opinion because it works.

If Meta had spent 1/10th of the money over 10 years on VR they would have walked out of this okay in the medium term but nope gotta chase the rainbow.

All they had to do was commit and they couldn’t, not with all the money in the world.

I hope you are right I am just concerned about escalation and I don’t like the incentive structure at the moment one bit.

Yeah but this way Microslop can blame the user.

This kind of fear mongering is unproductive and indicative of how leftist media has a very immature relationship with understanding defense topics, and only recently have begun paying attention after they decided drones make older military stuff totally obsolete (how many times have I heard that drones make tanks obsolete said so confidently from people? ughh).

The danger with “Rogue AI” is that when you automate the target finding and final kill sequence with some form of machine learning algorithm with no human in the loop, it is going to make mistakes, especially if it has been subject to Electronic Warfare such as GPS spoofing. While this is terrifying, note that this is just another way of making a precision guided weapon more inaccurate and likely to do collateral damage and in a sense isn’t really a radical new danger, just a tragic return to an old one. This is also an expression of why keeping a human tightly integrated in the loop is so valuable at tactical, strategic, and diplomatic levels.

AI is not going to take over because of superintelligence, that is just marketing to hype up AI. AI has many dangers but this is not the correct framing to approach the discussion from as it warps it from the beginning.

David Krueger professor of robust, reasoning and responsible AI at the University of Montreal. He is also the founder of Evitable, a nonprofit that educates the public about the risks of artificial intelligence.

^This man is an expert in robots, automation and machine learning NOT WAR. The study of war, not matter how much people try to pretend it isn’t, is a real expertise with a history of predictive power that can apply old concepts to new technologies and contexts and generally illuminate what is the best strategic use of new capabilities. “Air Cavalry” isn’t just a nostalgic name, the concept of using transport helicopters aggressively comes straight out of the thinking behind horse cavalry, “Artillery” no matter the type has always functioned in the same way in the way it applies decisive pressure, Drones are another expression of decentralized Close Air Support, “Heavy Armor” is a term that has been applicable from early on in human conflict, and no matter the manifestation of it whether it be knight armor, iron ships that brought an end to wooden warships, body armor or main battle tanks the concept has always been to support somebody donning a heavy, obtuse outfit that charges at the most entrenched part of enemy lines. etc…

I say all this to point out that it is an act of journalistic malpractice to try to talk about the future of war, especially along axis’s that are genuinely scary for normal people who just want peace, without consulting someone who is an expert on the history of war and how it applies to modern warfare. It scares people, it sends the wrong message and it potentially throws a wrench in the soldiers getting what they need.

This is weirder than a traditional sail, but point taken.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olPaVFneoTc

nah it sucks

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

-Wernher Von Braun

Lies!

See that man has such nice large muscles on him, don’t you just want to reach out and squeeze them? Massage them a little bit? To feel a real working man’s arms and their embracing strength is to feel the American Dream enter you, I dream about these men! Ha! - Trump probably

Texas: The Oil Dictatorship That Doesn’t Even Bother To Bribe Their Peasant Class

I am not arguing either way on that point personally, I just think the idea of Pollievre standing up against a more powerful, uglier, older version of himself he admires is hilarious on the face of it.

This is just two coyotes playing good coyote bad coyote to convince the coop that the good coyote isn’t part of the same pack with the same objective of slaughtering all the chickens as the bad coyote.

Though the more I think about it, given that logic I would just assume the opposite of whatever Pollievre gets animated about arguing Canada should do is good for Canada.

Nonsense, next you are going to claim the point of English, Creative Writing and Non-Fiction Writing degrees aren’t to increase the raw amount of words being written in the world as if these degrees existed to do anything other than focus on drilling student’s typing and writing speed while only grading their output on quantity and other superficial bulk metrics!!?

You are SO naive!

Do you even know how the whole world works? No? Well you should have studied computers and not wasted your time!

I am far more worried that Israel is approaching the act of dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran, and that this would effectively give Putin permission to drop a nuclear bomb on Ukraine.

Google being a trash company would be the major reason not to buy a Pixel.