Fun part? US government is actually pretty good at governing compared to alternatives.

Consider something like it's primary competitor of PRC, where bureaucracy is so hilariously bad that leadership has no idea what going on in the nation, and has to rely on things like electricity consumption numbers when they try to determine how much economic activity has taken place.

Unlikely, as this is a budgetary item. Managers can go to prison for fraud and be liable for damages if they failed to have the person working this role if it is indeed required to be filled for this task. It's a key part in how bureaucracy diffuses responsibility for mistakes, and one thing that bureaucrats tend to follow with religious fervor.

Far more likely scenario is one I list above.

This is the low IQ take. It requires not understanding the following:

1. How error rate works.
2. How error mitigation works.
3. How error correction works.
4. Who is at fault when #3 fails.

No he is not. He has no power to start wars. or kidnap people. he can make emergency defensive moves. that is why they are bending over backwards to make up imminent threat emergency excuses to give them legal cover that itself is pathetic. even bush had to work at it to do his war; this idiot just picks the worst option people give him -- just as John Bolton said he did previously.

Trump put crooks in charge and maybe you've noticed a huge increase in small delivery companies you never heard about bringing your packages when it used to be the USPS? Also the time delays of having your neighborhood letters being sent 1000 miles away to be sorted only to arrive later down the street...

Plus they hired a military contractor to waste money making stupid ugly delivery vans that are way way behind schedule; also they use plenty of gas. The EV company that bid for the contract would never be allowed to get the contract. Would have built a fleet by now and they'd be running CHEAPER. My USPS is using a minivan because they couldn't get what they were supposed to-- the good part is the minivan is far better than the shit being slowly made in Wisconsin.

Also they seem to like spending money on ads for the USPS. I don't know if there are more of those or not. I don't see enough TV.

FYI, right now they are set to have major delays and money problems likely to screw things up with delays for the election. Plus they don't timestamp letters locally so it appears later than it was mailed...

It's literally in the OP. It's not the AI that is at fault, it's the person who's job it was to sanity check to output. That person didn't do it.

"The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision."

But the "humans are better at this, AI sucks" crowd can't even read the OP. Imagine you hire someone like this to make complex decisions like one needed in the OP, by the tens of thousands.

The error rate would be hilarious.

Main problem with AI in these cases is that it is so good, that people stop checking it.

Even when they're explicitly employed to do so as is the case here. "It's been great last ten thousand cases I checked, it's right here too".

I thought the Ring was a metaphor for technology/industrial revolution etc. not generically all oppression.

This one way to keep him nice about being censored...

He's a super nerd on lord of the rings. Not sure this will turn out well except Jackson will tone it down like he did the books... but hopefully not pad it out extremely like he did the Hobbit. Perhaps this is the job-- make the padding not so bad as they stretch out more and more from little.

Interesting his son took his mother's last name.

I wonder if Lord Trump orders this project scrapped out of spite? It could happen and likely would if the Eye of Trump notices.

Issue here is far more than any single detail such as "lighting engine". Various forms of temporal anti aliasing for example has nothing to do with it, and yet if you turn it off in quite a few modern games, you will notice a lot of really nasty shortcuts that were taken, because developers expected everything being smoothed over with temporal anti aliasing hiding the problems.

So your choice today is ghosting artifacts and everything smoothed over, or image with flickering, weird edges of things and so on. This is why a lot of games don't even let you turn temporal anti aliasing off any more, and instead merely offer you various different temporal solutions at least one of which must be on.

On the other hand, it saves quite a lot of time if you can just trust all minor issues to be smoothed over anyway, so it's an efficiency tool.

On the bright side, since a lot of people believe that VA monitors are suitable for gaming, they won't even notice the smoothed out image, because their monitor will smooth everything in motion out anyway. It's hilarious when you get someone with a VA "gaming" monitor to sit at a good OLED, and they are shocked you can read text on things in motion.

I'll add the "doesn't matter what height something flies at, it's all the same in terms of energy" to the list of "no more winters below -20C in nothern europe due to global warming", "germany can control wind" and other angelospherims.

Honestly, I thought you peaked at those two. You proved me wrong.

P.S. Top tier reading comprehension as usual on your part.

I will once again reiterate my previous answer, as you doubled down on "you must be thinking this if you understand this".

The answer to your last question is "I have empathy". Top 5 percentile of population in it, measured back during my university days. I am very good at reading people's emotional state and intent and expressing it in a way that they would agree with if I want to.

Since nerds tend to suffer from the opposite, exceedingly low empathy "I don't understand how these people could act like this", as you just demonstrated above, I often get the reaction you demonstrate. Fundamentally, one of the main strategies people with low empathy deploy to understand the world is "people are exactly what they say".

It's why modern Maoism/grievance studies enjoy such massive popularity among the nerds compared to general populace. They fundamentally require this assumption.

Meanwhile I am able to explain opinions of others to people who want clarifications, without holding those opinions, or even when holding opposite opinion, as I have in this case. Think of it as emulating a completely different operating system within another operating system.

They lost this competition to Grok Imagine and ByteDance SeeDance in quality.

Those generate better video.

At the same time, video generation is exceptionally computationally expensive, so if you're not a front runner here, efforts to catch up are way more expensive than in pretty much all other forms of genAI.

Good! thanks, you gave me a chuckle.

Now pitch it to a streaming service so I can torrent the show later. (just have a chat bot write most the script... it'll likely be better than some of the crap human "bots" are churning out.)

As usual, you're wrong on everything.

Long range cruise missiles fly high to conserve energy most of the flight, and only go low once they get close enough to were they can afford to lose energy flying in much denser atmosphere.

Exocets are short range cruise missiles. They're utterly unsuitable for Iran to attack anything in the Med. They're barely suitable for working in the Gulf from Iran's perspective, as even there, they wouldn't be able to reach many places without exposing the launcher.

Almost all long range anti-shipping missiles of the kind that Iran could use to attack shipping in the med are ballistic.