Comment Re:Why does anyone take this seriously? (Score 1) 90
Oh, so you mean. 'China deployed a weapon in space and *used* it'?
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
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 was quite intimidated when the high water alarm first went off.
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
I hope it is one of those fancy engineered septic systems, with pumps, timers, floats, dose controls etc. In which case yeah
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.
Other countries that have the capability to deploy weapons in space are likely already doing so. They're not waiting for the US to say "it's ok".
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.
No surprise it is the US, which is by now nothing but a lawless rogue nation run by criminals.
lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):
aimed at deterring what U.S. officials describe as aggressive orbital activities from China and Russia
China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.
But you know that
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 gulf aligned against...
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...
Space tells matter how to move and matter tells space how to curve. -- Wheeler