This falls into the game of "If I say that I'm X does that really mean I'm X, or does it mean I'm just using the name."

The National Socialist Workers Party was neither Socialist nor pro-worker. I would also hesitate to call the Democratic People's Republic of Korea either Democratic or a Republic. All of it is just performative crap designed to be public justification in a broad sense, but even the public knows that it is crap.

Putin and the Russian government just bleated about Nazis to make it more palatable Russians, but it's all performative crap that Russians know is a lie. That's no different than MAGA buying there's 20 million MS13 / other gang immigrants instituting a criminal reign of terror across the US. Most the MAGA faithful don't truly believe it, but it gives them an excuse for their hatred so they pretend it is true.

The KF51 uses drones to wall hack. Oh, let me translate that: The KF51 Main Battle Tank uses drones with datalink for targeting. So if the drone can see you, and there's nothing in the way that will stop the round, the Panther can blow you up.

"Datalink" technology, something that Russia doesn't have and Ukraine only has extremely limited use of compared to most Western militaries, is going to become the showstopper with both invasions and drones. Kind of hard to find a hole through defenses if they're linked and using Western drone defenses. By the by, the US and EU have been working on drone defenses since about 2002, seriously ramping up around 2010.

Until they don't, see: Cinderella. That's the problem, you're taking 100 year old stories and trying to adapt them into modern circumstances. Quite often it only kind of works, not being notable at all as a success or failure. Sometimes it fails spectacularly, often because they didn't get the current zeitgeist. Very few times it becomes a breakout success. Although...

I can't believe it! This is completely UNPOSSIBLE. We were told by Fox News, their talking heads, and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber that no one would want to go see MS13 Wokeman. Surely they will have to be admitting that 'MURICA is woke now. NAHHH! Expect new poutrage for the next movie they don't like, as they paper over this as "some surname driven wokeness that people STILL watched because: reasons." Gotta keep that perpetual outrage machine running!

So the wealth should be trickling down... any... day... now... any day.

I saw it written elsewhere best: Art Laffer should go down in history as the penultimate economic terrorist. No other single person has enabled a larger wealth transfer than he did with his napkin doodle to falsely justify gutting the social safety net to give billions to the top 2%.

Expense is a real concern.

I can always tell someone with a lot of spare money / privilege because they talk about building new this, or wanting to ignore how we're meeting base load. They're also the people that assume people will buy new electric cars, or that delivery services will all be like the Amazon Rivian or USPS duckbill, brand spanking new.

The brutal reality is we're going to be doing a LOT of retrofit, and re-use. Why? Limited money / resources. That means those old, less efficient, houses will have to be used in many places. Those older electric vehicles with batteries that might only reach 70% of original capacity might still be used. Reused solar panels and storage might become a real industry.

We're going to have to be flexible to meet the needs of the many, and I'm talking in the US / Canada / EU / Japan / Middle East / China (et al) right now... I haven't even scratched Africa / Asia / South America (et al) where there may be far less funding available.

Not well enough if you believe in keeping people alive. We're going to have to increase base load to support (likely heat pumps) climate control systems to counteract the worst days.

That and no civilization has ever lowered it's energy needs really, unless it was failing. Sure you can be more efficient, but you're still increasing usage.

We are going to have to massively increase base load, and not just for AI. For that right now I think nuclear is the best option. No it's not a magic fix, but it's probably the best climate-wise.

This isn't just AI, we have millions of people that need climate control to survive. Don't rely on me for that one, go look at NPR and their recent series on climate change. Now amongst many things they list is Air Conditioning. I will also add: heating. The best way to do this, in many areas, isn't by burning natural gas or heating oil. We should be continuing to push heat exchangers / heat pumps. Yes, in many areas we will be able to do this electrically. However that is going to massively increase base load.

I don't think renewables and storage are going to cut it for a decade but more likely three... especially at burst. However I do believe we will get there if we keep moving forward. Just like I think we'll continue to make heat pumps better.

We'll still need things like oil and coal, but we won't be burning them in one shot. We'll be using them for things like polymers to make device components.

What Fed Chair Powell doesn't realize is that while it's coming for many jobs, if we deploy it where it will be best applied, the jobs most at risk are jobs like his or C-Levels. Limited inputs of data that's already collated, large datasets, and so on... jobs like those are an AI team's wet dream.

The only reason you wouldn't put it into jobs like those first is if it would affect you, or your friends, negatively.

In the US we've spent decades creating legal fictions that give corporations as many, more in some ways, rights as people.

Personally speaking it's time to unwind the mess that courts created and return corporations to non-entities. Why? Too many C-Levels (et al.) decided there was no limit and acted like they are above the law. With that being the result, there is only one penalty: Ending this idiocy and making corporate officers responsible for the actions of the corporation. People will screech about that being unfair... but the C-Levels are the first to claim they are indispensable, the guiding force of the company, and so on, to justify their inflated compensation packages. You say that then you better buck up for the suds. You want to deny it? Then maybe you aren't indispensable, or a guiding force, and so on, meaning that maybe you aren't able to justify that inflated compensation package.

The police will probably have an apoplectic fit over this one. Kind of like how they hate it when security bugs are patched that ruin their spy software.

How are they supposed to spy on journalists if they can't spoof cell towers and hack phones?

Well, of course. Doesn't matter if the C-levels, especially the CEO, has a compensation package worth more than every other employee. They can demand they be hardcore and sleep in the office, even though they have families, and he thinks it's ok because he's playing games.

Late Stage Capitalism has everything going haywire. We're on a collision course where things could get very ugly, very fast.

Of course what very few people will say is that the job AI would be best at replacing is the CEO, indeed many C-levels. You could hire a team of AI experts, and build out the hardware, even keeping a hot spare (for want of a better term) in case you had to euthanize the primary for going bonkers or something, for far less than your average CEO compensation package. Heck you could probably also hire extra customer facing employees, increase production capacity, give every employee a pay bump to increase retention and job satisfaction, and still give a fat dividend to shareholders... just by firing one very expensive human employee.

By the by, your argument of "field not affected by AI" was also brought up when people worked ridiculous hours pre-automation... by people spouting something nearly identical about jobs not affected by automation. They would also have said the same thing about overtime, if they bothered to pay it at all.

Of course for this to happen the vulture capitalists of the new gilded age will have to be stripped of their excess political power. No more free rides for the ultra wealthy. I'll bet we'll get someone who will say, "b-b-but they pay the majority of taxes!" ignoring the fact that the majority of domestic, and foreign, policy in the US is currently catering to the ultra-wealthy... that includes things from local and state tax policy, to international military and trade policy.

That's one goal for theocrat fascists. The insurance leeches will play along because they get to profile everyone to "personalize" insurance rates.

You know, the irony is that I'm less worried about the tracking portion than the fact companies will use it to jack up insurance rates on people... or try to track whether or not women are pregnant in Gilead states. You can likely toss in a dozen or so other invasions of privacy that such data would allow, including tracking.

Tesla is in reality compared to competitors. Now if I was a Tesla investor, I'd be extremely nervous. I'd be demanding Elon put up an independent third party verified demonstration to justify his compensation package. I doubt the Cult of Elon would allow such a thing to happen. They need to continue their total deference to Elon's statements, or they become apostates.

The problem for the cult is we have more competitors filling up the autonomous vehicle space versus Tesla, and several that appear to be expanding their lead. Remember that Tesla Autopilot / FSD / Semi Self Driving / Semi Drone mode were "solved problems" and / or would be ready "next year" or similar for up to a decade now. Tesla is beginning to look more and more like a shareholder lawsuit waiting to happen.

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