Somewhat correct. The drone supply part is unfortunately no longer true, Russia made tweaks to the base design and now almost entirely make them domestically (code name Geran).

Nothing to do with intelligence, everything to do with how competitive Chinese society is. They are ruthless, and any and every advantage will be used. Winning has a higher value there, recall that their society has a high priority on status. While they executed the people involved, remember baby powder scandal? Or other fun shit that is done to cut corners? Tofu Dreg ring a bell?

Problem is... it already is heavily automated. Thus why the US can still produce the goods it does, with an ever shrinking manufacturing workforce. We have to remember, most industries work on 5 - 15 year timelines. Often the job reductions you are seeing today are the result of a process automation or improvement that was conceived of 5 years ago and has finally rolled out to the entire company or throughout an industry. It was never going to be "OH FUCK, 50% LAYOFFS!". It has been that guys that retires that isn't replaced. Or the improvement in output that leads to less hiring. See the current AI stuff in tech, it hasn't actually caused large scale layoffs, but it has stunted hiring.

The thing that varies wildly is the skill using it, and most importantly, the existing system you are trying to apply it to. It generally just magnifies your tech stack... in every way. So tech debt explodes. Lack of testing makes things 1000x worse. Lack of documentation, ditto.

I think too many are rushing in and giving it big stuff, without building a solid foundation. Really it should be used for helping build that foundation. Focus on small things (add tests to JUST this module area, and add the documentation for only THESE classes/modules, nothing else). LLM's really, really, really exhibit the Unix philosophy : Do one thing and do it well. You try to throw LLM at some huge undefined problem, it will crash and burn. If you use it to build a sequence of well defined small problems, each verified and validated, it will do what can seem like magic.

I believe the core difference is that Anthropic was enforcing the restrictions in the model itself. So for the Pentagon to get what it wanted would require a rebuild of the model, which Anthropic refused. OpenAI however seems to have only gotten these assurances on paper in the contract, but absolutely nothing now stops the Pentagon from actually using as they desire.

And maybe people like you fail to see that the globalization bell can't be unrung. Protectionism doesn't work long run, see North Korea, Soviet Union, Great Depression in America, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, I could keep going.

No country has been "self sufficient" for over half a century now. Even at the height of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union had to trade with each other to maintain various goods and services (they just cloaked it in political dogma, but the trade still happened).

Globalization is just the end state of your ideology. Too late to back out now. We will see some stuff draw back, but let's be clear, the entire problem is the Reich Wing and their orange moron, backed by the racists who feel entitled to a middle class job because they are a white American, nothing more, they aren't hard working, they aren't intelligent, and they sure as fuck aren't good enough in this world. I would know, I get to see them at work, and my sister has them at work (white southern dudes who don't want to learn computers, let along modern logistics tracking because that's how they've always done it, I was gobsmacked).

Yeah, knowing your death is coming in a thousand years, after living potentially for hundreds of thousand of years... terrified Kosh.

Great, so we are recreating the panopticon. Outstanding /s

So much for hope for the future, guess we deserve our cyberpunk dystopia hellscape that is coming.

Yeah, specifically the evolution of G'Kar and Londo, their journey affected everyone around them. The chemistry they had was something else. And most of all, neither could be seen as strictly good or evil, they were both patriots, misguided at times and both had to learn painful lessons on their way to redemption.

"Some must be sacrificed, if all are to be saved" was one hell of a piece of writing.

And the other absolutely chilling thing was the confrontation of Kosh by Sheridan. The idea that as powerful as the Vorlons and Shadows were, they were still subject to the same issues the younger races were, including fear, prejudice and myopic, was one hell of a presentation.

Wrong, doing a placebo trial is flat out unethical, because it means you need to deliberately infect someone with something that can be lethal and give them NOTHING to deal with it. No one will do a placebo trial for vaccines, they would lose their medical license and any company who did it would sued into oblivion. What you are proposing is the realm of literal evil medical experimentation, like the Tuskagee experiment evil.

Sounds like a problem for men, or for employers. Either men need to get gud (isn't that the conservative mantra?) or employers need to pay a lot more (isn't that the free market mantra?).

Sounds like women have power for the first time in centuries, where they can tell me to fuck off for be less then desirable, as men have done for ages. See our current pedo in chief, who auctioned wives off like it was a game, and turns out he was a pedo auctioneer.

No, those usages are minor at best. 80% of all oil is used for fuel., with the vast majority being gasoline. Everything you are describing is minor, and is much more easily managed. Plus its usage as fuel is fundamentally inefficient, thermodynamics sucks that way. Car engines top out around 50% efficiency, maybe 60 in some narrow circumstances. So 80% of oil is used for fuel, and half of it is flat out wasted straight into the atmosphere.

One small problem with that. Plenty of them would love to move to the US, however a core component of the Trump regime is to end immigration of any kind. Visas are being revoked left and right. Mass deportations. Banning of other visas. Insane border checks (5 years of social media plus personal info on all relatives). The Reich under Stephen Miller is gunning for their all white America.

Found the Reich winger. Please deport yourself, it would improve the economy. Russia is accepting meat for the front.

So, who pays for the deliveries to my house/city/state? I certainly won't, but I guess it might get filtered down in the prices paid for goods. At which point it just becomes a general stealth tax, since it encourages everyone to never drive, and just have everything delivered.