While we're talking about replacing humans, let me just express the shock and dismay that this White House would come out in favor of billionaires getting richer off of taking away jobs from the working class through building robots that cost as much as a car, and displace any number of domestic workers or contractors.

"Be best" indeed.

What happens is this. Someone makes a product with a 0.1% reliability.

This is a fallacy.

What happens is it'll be incredibly obvious in tests (which you can afford to do with cheap missiles) if the reliability rate is that low. Why would it be?

Everything about it screams these are a new cheap, almost worthless missile. Particularly the use of the word 'hypersonic' to describe a missile that the US would never call hypersonic (we reserve that word for advanced, hard to hit hypersonic cruise missiles, not hypersonic ballistic missiles that are easy to destroy)

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

Never mind that hypersonic is not a military term, but an aerodynamic regime. You (or pretentiously "we") don't get to reserve that word.

Mass manufacture of cheap propeller cruise missiles is enough to overwhelm the production capacity of expensive interceptor missiles. And hypersonic ballistic missiles aren't easy to intercept, they are possible to intercept. But, much harder than low speed missiles, so you need fewer to overwhelm the stocks of interceptors.

 

There's that too. And that adds more problems.

The recommended way to delete all your posts (recommended by privacy advocates, not Reddit) is to edit them to be garbage, and then delete them after that.

The only tools that can do that for you automatically with your likely thousands of posts will almost certainly flag every bot detection algorithm that's written properly.

Absolutely. For one thing, it will not be tolerated if they wear a tan suit.

No, I'm talking about Google's reCAPTCHA. It's blocked me at least twice. The only way to find out is to change over to the audio reCAPTCHA where it'll tell you you're blocked, otherwise they (sadistically, because nobody other than humans would actually suffer here, so this is more evidence Googlers are shit people) lock you in a loop of visual reCAPTCHAs with no feedback beyond "Try again".

I don't care what their race or sex is. I'm concerned about their age, religion, and views on war crimes and slavery.

We know Obama did war crimes because he told us about them. That's how brazen the servants of the MIC have become. (inb4 I get accused of racism this time: We know Trump does more drone strikes without due process than Obama did, because until Trump rescinded Obama's EO on reporting of such strikes, he was doing four times as many of them.)

We The People? Not most of us. TPTB? Yes, they sure do. High unemployment is just the thing when you want people to volunteer to be cannon fodder for your endless war.

LOTR is about freedom vs oppression, had not just strong but powerful female characters from the get-go, and the morals are about ordinary people defeating evil by being true to their fellowship. It's woke AF from start to finish.

They only left him out, they did much worse to Faramir.

Tom Bombadil was important to the books, to give a certain feeling. But not so much to the movies, which felt epic enough without him.

The mods don't block a lot of the box because they want the engagement to grow there forums. Reddit doesn't mind the bot engagement either the problem they're having is that it's become so obvious that it's infecting their data sets and their advertisers can't pretend anymore that the leads they're getting are worthwhile. So they have to clean things up a bit or their business model is at risk

Modern bots can get past most captcha unless it's a huge pain in the ass that starts to impact users.

Reddit has a problem where it adds too much friction it loses users because it's not as useful as site as Facebook.

I'm an introvert so Facebook isn't my thing but people I know who are extraverts or just want to find hobbyists with the same niche hobbies make a lot of use of Facebook to do that. And it does work for that purpose.

But Reddit doesn't have any of that and the bots have kind of made the discussions almost useless.

Honestly I would love the bot spam to go away. Because a lot of the political forums require accounts with high karma and long tenure non-political forums get really low effort shit posts like hey remember this game from your childhood isn't it great upvote me!

So it kind of wrecks any meaningful discussion or nerding out.

The trouble is all that is good for engagement so nobody really wants to take it out completely. What Reddit really wants is to be able to tell the bots from the real people so that they can continue to sell the data the real people generate and advertise to them

LLMs have made CAPTCHA basically useless. Not to mention the fact I have been flagged as a bot by reCAPTCHA regularly (I guess "Uses Linux and Chromium or Palemoon" makes me a bot even though I did fucking select all the boxes with bicycles, and then traffic lights, and then the boxes that covered a motorcycle, and...")

At this point it's a tool with false positives that real bots can bypass anyway.

This is the nightmare everyone has been warning about, but the powers that be are too gullible (in the case of AI) and too interested in power for its own sake (politicians) to prevent. Do we really want mass unemployment and business failures because of a giant con job? Even now there are gullible Slashdotters itching to tell me Claude helped them with something therefore the inevitable crash when businesses that got rid of half their employees leading to them have terrible products, poor customer service, and no understanding or control over their own business decisions any more, and no customers anyway because of mass unemployment, is somehow "worth it".

Let me guess you passed the test right? Well I guess that just proves how much smarter you are than I am...

Actually it explicitly isn't, with the exception of channels dedicated to just showing one show TV has historically always contained content to specific hour or half our periods, broken up by advertisements, and often a full week between serialised episodes.