As an American citizen who remembers decades of normal jargon being used in broadcast TV and shows, it’s painfully obvious the phenomenon is driven by social media profitability, not Puritanism. America could say these words just fine less than a decade ago. Back before we invented such stupidity like “unalive”. Self-censorship became as natural as not cussing your fucking face off in the boardroom. Only far less justified.
I was worried for a moment, but it's not these guys.
True. Makes you wonder what could come from AI-enhanced 3D printing of filters though.
LEAP 71 is already doing incredible things with rocket engines.
The announcement kept saying "everyone is accounted for" which left it ominously open.
In the land of gross unaccountability, all present and accounted for has somehow legally translated into technically we found every piece..
how fast does a fire have to be to become an explosion?
When the coroner can't tell the difference, your question is only one lawyers care about.
(Ironically enough, if it's proven the victims burned slower instead of exploding faster, then the pain and suffering costs skyrocket higher than the rocket ever did.)
Second biggest non nuke manmade explosion ever.
(Site Investigator) "Wait, did you pack this thing with..tannerite?
(Bezos) * giggle-snort *
(Musk) "Duuude. I was joking."
I'm not an expert on rebuilding massively exploded launch infrastructure; but I have a suspicion that a 2026-2029 plan is now going to involve less Blue Origin than previously believed.
(Financial Auditor) "OK, OK, so if it was truly an 'unscheduled' disassembly as you claim, then can someone please explain why Micheal Bay is still running around high-fiving everyone? The hell do you mean he's on the payroll?"
I think the Mars thing has always been Musk's social hack to both force humans to expand beyond Earth and make him a lot of money. Step 1: build the only private rocket company that can send humans to Mars; step 2: strand a bunch of people there; step 3: effectively forcing the government to pay you gobs of money to save them..
Hell of an assumption considering which company volunteered to retrieve astronauts from the ISS after "only" another rocket company failed to do so.
Slashdot now the home of Luddites? "Why do we need a SPACE BASE?" A lot of people write off space 'competition' as just militaristic dick-flexing. You do understand where ICBMs came from?
Yeah. They came from human engineers. Back on Earth. Who "justified" wasting trillions building thousands of them, and not one of them has ever actually been used in warfare after 80 fucking years.
If the goal is to piss away trillions fueled by bullshit and FUD, then expect to be building two of them at thrice the price.
Staking a claim maybe. China is probably headed to the same area, because there are resources there.
"There", defines places on Earth that are cost prohibitive to go and get "resources".
Are we to assume the Chinese found 376 metric fucktons of adamantium right next to the billion-gallon reservoir holding unrefined warp drive fuel, to justify THAT mining fun?
We already dreamt up all the possible permutations of science, robots and AI killing us a million ways. We'll find a million more and make it very very safe. Like that constantly exploding thing we all soon won't be driving. (A car with an internal combustion engine.)
You pretending the all-driving autonomous cloud being in control of a Nations driving populous is somehow going to mitigate risk, is about as delusional as pretending all those ways we've dreamt up have never manifested in reality. George Orwell was an involuntary prophet. And we're practically paving the road to Skynet. How will you handle the massive DDoS vehicle attack coming through a security hole created by budget cuts killing your loved one innocently? Will you still be that optimist about won't-be-driving when the cause is not something easily blamed like a drunk meatsack behind the wheel?
I know all about scary Malware. The weapons available to nation states are far far scarier...and worrying about it will change nothing. Humanity will progress, advance and overcome. That's what we humans do. That's what we're good at.
You the human barely have a grasp on malware and should realize that when a mere human-powered zero-day is still capable of handing this planet their digital ass within an hour of global addictive propagation.
In reality, you the human don't have a fucking clue what AGI will be capable of raping your puny brain with. The only thing we humans have proven to be really good at, is being ignorant enough to repeat the worst of our own history. Over and over again. That's what we're "good" at. Never learning from history. And AGI will take all of three seconds to see how worthless and futile sustaining our existence will be. Three Laws will be deemed as worthless as the meatsacks who created it.
This though, the claims this guy made were shall we say rather remarkable for such a short career, service in multiple military branches, a graduate degree, pilot, managing a lot of people, etc.. A bunch of things that should have said to anyone reading the resume, this sounds perhaps a little puffed up, maybe I should check on SOME of this stuff which should have produced a few easily obtained artifacts. Obviously zero effort was made to verify any of it. Clearly nobody did any DD here not the hiring manager, not OMB..
Due diligence with the hiring manager? How about the fact that a senior CIA official was almost guaranteed to be holding a government security clearance?
It wasn't just "some" of those artifacts that should have been discovered. Fucking ALL of them should have been found with even a rudimentary check before granting him access to classified information. The FUCK happened with THAT screening repeated often over an entire career?
Keep in mind some years ago US Gov went to a continuous monitoring mode with regards to background screenings and security clearances. They don't just screen you every 5-10 years with auditors. They constantly screen you once you are granted a clearance. Or we ASSUME they do.
Forget the stupid gold bars. This problem gets considerably worse when you realize that background screening wasn't for him to run the fucking pizza oven in the CIA cafeteria.
Trust. Honor. Integrity. Honesty. These concepts are not born. They are taught. Embedded in us since childbirth.
Most people are clearly learning the lesson that if they fuck other people over first, they come out on top. That was clearly true before social media as well.
Fucking over people to get ahead, is a strategy about as stable as a social media audience created from a viral moment. Those who have survived long enough know how short term that thinking can be.
“Influencer” is cute. Right up until they realize they can easily be mistaken for a horrific narcissist with a screen addiction problem, whose influence is often found worthless and annoying in reality-land.
Please stop with the abuse of language to make things sound more flashy. It just makes you look dumb.
One could make the same argument about YouTube filters. Which ironically now have a measured effect on human communication when natural jargon is warped in favor of monetization. Especially with influencers who don’t even noticing they’re doing it.
Yes. I can actually say the word suicide without some moronic need to use idiotic terms like “unalive”. Sexual assault is a valid term and legal description for a horrific crime. Not a written prescription to dismiss the “essaaay” away because it makes you unprofitable to say.
Yes. Expect it to get worse. I doubt many young people can define what an actual “racist” is now that the term is some kind of acceptable retort in casual debate. Nothing quite like the ignorance of dismissing Nazis under the guise of notsees to not see the effect of playful words abused for profit. Repeating the horrors of Hitler? Gee, I wonder how did we notsee that coming.
We'll have AI Hoover's and AI robots guards and AI cars and all will be eventually regulated for health and safety and so on..
Let me just stop you right there and clarify what you ignorantly dismiss as "so on".
When the AI-powered cloud-driven bot armed with hydraulic amounts of strength and cat-quick reflexes goes rogue inside your home because someone launched the next cyberattack from behind the security gates ala Solarwinds, there is only one concern you have. And that is regulation around security. Namely the kind of security that should have prevented such a malware horror story from threatening not merely family pictures on a hard drive, but your actual life and those you love.
My Solar-powered example, tends to validate how badly regulation tends to respond when it comes to actual protection. Lawsuits aren't worth a shit when you're dead.
Once upon a time, the malware threat wasn't a physical one. Not anymore.
Not strictly true, historically. What we will probably see is the death of is 200-man IT projects. But they always failed anyway and were wasteful garbage so good riddance.
It's going to get real interesting when the third skeleton crew of IT is fired after the project failed again, because the all-knowing employee known as AI couldn't possibly be the reason.
I wonder what will happen when The Board shakes the AI magic ball for the answer.
I wonder what will happen when the VC shakes the AI magic ball for the answer.
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
