I had a dream in which I talked to an AI and asked it to compose a letter from a mother to a son, asking him to quit smoking. Then I talked to DeepSeek, and here's the letter it composed, after a few iterations. https://pastebin.com/8Uky5br6 I hope it helps!

If you want to understand what's going on, here's how to gain knowledge. Before going to bed, say out loud: "I would like to see a dream about what it feels to live in Russia as a Russian citizen". You can write down that or say that, just do it physically. It will help you understand what options exist for your country. That's all you need. (The technique is called dream incubation, in that you can request commentary on what interests you the most. Not demand, just request.)

Why do you expect that after the war ends, Russians will have any much sympathy towards the West? Putin may be wrong on multiple accounts, but one cannot ignore that the West has supplied weapons which killed Russian servicemen and civilians in this war. You might respond that the West had to respond to the war the way it did. Well, in that case, it has chosen its principles over sympathies of Russian people. You can count on that the next President of Russia will be anti-Western. Again, that's the basic reality. It's sad in a way, all of this was not necessary. But there's a certain dynamics set in place. Banning Discord is a part of that dynamics. The best you can do is to stop ignoring that dynamics.

You are correct, of course. I haven't claimed otherwise. All I said is that there's a volunteer-run effort to process various sorts of plastic. Check out this website (may be with automated translate tools).

Yes, there are different plastic types, which needs to be gathered separately. We do that in Russia already.

Well, not everyone. But those who participate in voluntary recycling.

Actually you learn about different types of plastic fairly quickly, just need a bit of practice.

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Being able to choose between "yes" and "no" answers allows one to communicate. That approach can be adapted to depth psychology, where you can seek to communicate with autonomous parts of your mind, who can share with you their emotions that can be used as "yes" or "no" signals. After that it's fairly easy to establish some communication.

Here's a prototype implementation.

to better catch replicants.

It brings in mind Russian sci-fi duology "Worm" by Lazarevich, published in 1992.

It goes like that... Russians have sent to Mars two armies of self-evolving robots who fought each other and produced valuable military designs as a byproduct. But the experiment spiraled out of control. Then, the Russians have built a spaceship loaded with nuclear warheads, to nuke the entire surface of Mars and destroy the robot armies. It's only a fraction of the plot synopsys. The entire novel is a sort of an apocalyptic dystopia, the story of an escape of the people constituting the creative potential of the former Soviet Union from the confines of the new repressive governments.

In 1992, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, those novels made an impact, by bringing even people impervious to fiction to read, giving them the hope for a better future.

Thanks, it's really insightful! One minor correction is that while DHC-2 Beaver is indeed a workable concept, to fly for 30 minutes it still needs those improved 400Wh/kg batteries which are better than today best batteries... at least that's what I have figured out from the language of the article. So it just isn't there for a moment. Although it's a quite impressive achievement, indeed.

Such engines are going to be really useful for a nuclear-powered aircraft. It's a nice concept, let's see how it develops.

I concur with you that Western advices haven't been benefitial for the Russian economy. However, it was the Russian elected leadership which had given those changes a go. And it was the Russian people that had reelected Boris Yeltsin in 1996. So, it's still the Russian people that is fully responsible for the economic collapse of 1990s. Give or take the oil price, to determine the exact amount of responsibility.

Indeed, increased political competition and more diverse and free media are the tools typically used by a civil society to curb the corruption. Now, the real question is, why do Russian people by and large do not want all those goodies and prefer to stick with Putin's Government.

Western media seem to believe that that's because Russia is a totalitarian state which controls all the media so the people are essentially told what to believe. However, that's totally missing the point.

The real answer is the trauma of the economical crisis of 1990s, which happened on the scale that no Western country has recently endured, so you guys simply do not have the point of reference.

Now, the collapse of the Russian economy in 1990s is not your fault, so you shouldn't feel any guilt about that. But simply recognizing why Russians are very sensitive about it, why do they believe that criticism of their political system is a quite sensitive issue, and why many of them feel aversion to change, would help to get things along.

That said, you might very well feel aversion to Putin's Government or to the ordinary Russians for supporting it. But don't expect Russians to reciprocate your feelings, that's all I'm saying.

No, I have a pretty good idea what a discussion site is designed for.

There's a good reason why you don't see a lot of Russians around.

For example, I believe that the OP is needlessly alarmist and Russia isn't going to disconnect itself from the rest of the Internet. However, there would be three issues with that point. First, there are actually Russians who are afraid that the authorities might introduce a white list of websites accessible from our country. I don't believe that is going to happen, but I can only speak for myself. Not for all Russians in general. Second, suppose that I argued against the OP. Wouldn't that be interpreted as a proof that I would rather see the Russian segment of the Internet disconnected from the rest of the world? Although that's the last thing I'd like to happen. Third -- and most importantly -- no one has asked for my opinion. Wouldn't it be rude and inappropriate to introduce my own opinion regarding the OP, when no one has explicitly asked for it?

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