Oh, so you mean. 'China deployed a weapon in space and *used* it'?

Then again, after a Kessler event, first the lost resources need to be replaced, even marginally, so that life is not too unbearable /s. Then the debris cleanup must begin. It will have to be done.

Then whoever gets up there first will mostly win. And I would put good money on knowing who gets up there first, unless the NWO offs them and destroys their industrial advantage.

And I want MY nation to be the winner. Obviously. Your wishing me and my nation ill is only 'me win' in disguise.

for once I am really rooting for the extinguish part of Microsoft's Embrace Extend Extinguish MO..

The language and the tech are fine but the proponents are mostly insufferable.

And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?

I'll bet; my first reaction to that would be "Today is not going to be a good day"

Here let me google for you

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Have you actually used these? I am not convinced by your examples that you have.

I hope it is one of those fancy engineered septic systems, with pumps, timers, floats, dose controls etc. In which case yeah ... I often wonder if the engineers and the health departments understand them either. AI is probably great diagnostic tool there.

On the other hand the conventional ones really are just a hole in the ground for the most part; if you need AI for that we are in real trouble.

I think it is more simple then that. It is about protecting the status quo.

Nobody is really happy with US education outcomes. It is painfully obvious that places with the NEA/AFT enjoy the most influence, is highly aligned with the poorest performance.

You have similar orthodoxies in the higher-ed pedagogical programs where application of current state-of-the-art classroom and instruction theory continue result in only a long year over year decline in student performance..

So how do these entrenched groups remain so and prevent a revolt from parents and students, well one way to wave some flashy new tech or radical re-conceptualization of what being educated will mean in front of them like (you don't need to do math, you need to be able to code); then plead you just need to give us another decade and you'll see how this current crop of students turns out to be the most polished ever!

When it does not happen - repeat.

 

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.

lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):

China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.

But you know that ... in that double-think, "I'm not allowed to know this" way.

I guess people who believe in magical "weapons free" incantations will work down here, also believe those incantations will work for ... most of the universe?

The cynic in me can't help but notice how both of the companies doomsaying here also happen to be the ones with the most to lose:

1) Openai has about a trillion dollars into it, and every product it has produced at this point is either outclassed by competitors (chatgippity) or just plain dogshit/pointless (everything else it has produced, including the donut)
2) Anthropic has a very good product that is also not worth anywhere near what it actually costs to deliver

These are literally the only two major players here that don't already have another profit generating business to fall back to.

Facebook is the only one without an actual business strategy in the AI space while pretending to be a major player. But that's a topic for a CEO from another metaverse.

The only thing the gulf is aligned against is low oil prices, and the US squabbling with Iran is better than anything they might have hoped for. All the Gulf states are perfectly happy to continue being spectators and losing the occasional airport hanger or pipeline to a flying pipe bomb from Iran/Yemen, as long as that means $100+/bbl oil.

Trump sought out the biggest, wettest pile of shit on this entire planet and jumped into it with both feet.

Seriously, if you put a Harris/Waltz 2024 bumper sticker on your car, you aren't really trying to keep your politics a secret...