You don't go far enough. Fighting and control to what end? Much of the fighting is sheer competition to grab more. More land and resources, to support more children. As for fighting, no, most people have the sense not to willingly risk their lives in deadly combat. Most would rather move into empty lands, or failing that, clear out the current occupants through genocide. If easy genocide is not possible either because the occupants can and will fight back, some will choose war, but only if it looks easy.

Religion is rather orthogonal to this. Been used as much or more to justify fighting as to discourage fighting.

LOL so you only had to go back over a couple hundred years to find a single example of Russia "winning" without American help.

No you dumb fuck. That was just the biggest war you had zero involvement in. Russia has won most of their wars without your dumbass, like when they took 9% of Finland.

russia needs to rely on nuclear weapons or nobody will take it the lest bit seriously.

They've been utterly dominating your dumbfucked ass with conventional weapons.

russia was utterly dependent on America and the allies for WW2.

Utterly dumbfucked Nazi bullshit. Americans like Truman were quite explicit in wanting Germany to slug it out with the Soviets until both sides lost. You only got in the war when Soviets were in danger of saving Europe not just from Nazis but from capitalism.

Because deep subject experts are in fact experts in their subject, not your subject. Just like you have no idea about how to design a modern wide body passenger jet, they have no idea how to properly utilize a database for what they have always done in excel.

Reselling is definitely shady. But there would be no scope for such schemes if the price was fair. It's not.

The legendary Robin Hood robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Was he wrong? Was his cause not worthy? He was fighting greed-- excessive, damaging taxation and hoarding of wealth. Today, greed has again arisen to become one of our biggest problems, with these super rich using their immense wealth to corrupt our systems to unfairly direct even more wealth to them.

Your use of the term "thief" prejudices your argument. Copying is not theft. Copying is copying. Pirating a TV signal, maybe that should be a crime, but it shouldn't be lumped in with theft. For years, the entertainment industry has been trying to convince the world that sharing is theft. Don't do their dirty work for them.

Yes, I am aware TorrentFreak ran the story. They are one of the few exceptions to the near universal censoring and propagandizing the media does on this issue.

The BlueAnon dumbfucker is dumbfucked. Vast majority of protestors were entirely peaceful. Not one firearm taken inside Capitol. 1/6 is just Birtherism for shitlibs, a braindead conspiracy theory for braindead shitheads.

Lower classes live the best life they have ever lived in history of humanity. Not only are they not living the normal state of lower class which is starving, in constant pain, infested by large amount of parasites, quite ill, and extremely overworked.

They're living the opposite life: abundance is insane, to the point where poor are fat, parasite infestations are exceedingly rare, they have a wide array of pain mitigation for when they do experience it, and they have actual legal rights in terms of work, rather than normative "work harder slave or the whipping will commence".

The sole reason for this is is technological progress and automation. It has elevated value produced by work of even lower class workers to the point where just short amount of time worked can afford them the kind of food selection kings didn't have half a century ago. The kind of health care kings didn't have twenty years ago. Etc.

This utterly insane myopia of modern Western far left when it comes to grasping that it's in fact those worst off that had the most benefit from modern economic system and its technological progress is probably one of the greatest feats of stupidity humanity has ever managed to create.

Honestly, it never ceases to surprise me how many people never had to manage other people. Because the moment you have to do that, you find out just how incredibly unreliable people are.

The video is the source, dumbfuck not Tucker Carlson. Your defense is to shove your head up your ass so you don't see whats right in front of your nose?

>However, it isn't perfect.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Notably, this is also the difference between engineers and scientists. Latter live in the world of perfect abstraction. Former live in real world, where perfect abstraction is exceedingly counter-productive, and good enough is the gold standard.

even more evidence this is going to be China's century.

Society must acknowledge that sharing of info should be encouraged, and be thankful that technology has made sharing incredibly easy. Need to work harder on systems that can fairly compensate producers while encouraging sharing, not continue to base compensation on the restriction of sharing. Especially not to the point of outlawing sharing and wasting resources enforcing that and causing still more waste of lives that have to spend ruinously to fight to defend themselves from the legal mess.

One thing that makes this issue most intractable is that the organs who report on it are thoroughly convinced that sharing is contrary to their own interests. How is the public to hear unbiased reporting on this matter when no one with a metaphorical megaphone will give one?

While the whole "GRU/KGB dealt with it" aspect is real, it's so rare that it makes headlines every time. It's also worth noting that this is rarely if ever for "speech" reasons. Most of it is standard Russian Mafia style "you got our money/you betrayed loyalty" internal fighting. It doesn't really concern general public. They just don't rank high enough to warrant that level of attention.

It's the same thing how Chinese billionaires occasionally vanish for "re-education". Not really relevant for general public.

This is why everyone and their grandmother is all in on AI. It's adoption lags for the sole reason of "people haven't caught up with what it can do, and learned how to let it do it".

Whatever investment is currently in AI is dwarfed by what value it can already technically do, as long as people actually integrate it. It's the "get people to integrate it" part that is the choke point.

Meanwhile AI and robotics advancing rapidly is constantly increasing the amount of work it can perform adequately (about as well or better than typical human worker in that job).

As has been said before, primary problem with AI is no longer model quality, or robotics quality. It's human adaptation to "these tasks can be done by AI as well or better than a human, so we should develop workflow where these tasks are handed off to AI so humans can focus on other things that AI can't do".

Meanwhile models and robotics continue to rapidly advance, so this remains a moving target, making it even harder to hit at any given point in time.

Notably, by far the biggest all in on AI right now is in PRC, where entire factories are going to AI, most of research work is already AI assisted (hence the demand for 4090s and 5090s that have enough VRAM for narrow models commonly used in research), and things like robotics are among top if not the top of the world. Everyone else is behind.

Just so we're clear, they have more arrests for speech, expressed opinions and unexpressed opinions (failure to visibly express a correct opinion in certain settings, i.e. people getting arrested for silently standing alone next to abortion clinics doing absolutely nothing but) than Russia and China for these kinds of offenses COMBINED.

Oh wait, that was previous decade. 2023 numbers suggests it was over five times combined China and Russia, and UK trend is upwards.

Most recent reporting suggests that UK may have climbed to having over 100 times arrests than China for free speech related offenses alone.

Not per capita. Arrests in total. Those two have a combined population that's over twenty times that of UK.

UK is self evidently not a liberal democracy (which I assume is what you refer to when you call it "Western Democracy").

Every computer made in last ten years or so has full inference capability. The "AI support" on the sticker is just marketing.