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Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 2) 74

He is way smarter than you

Yes he is.

There are many medical conditions that blur gender identity, making blanket statements for political points is hateful and ignorant.

I don't care if you disagree with people who are trans. I don't care if you're smarter than me. But if you hate them, then you're wrong.

Change, don't be a hater.

Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 1, Troll) 74

How about addressing anything else I said? You picked out a single line in a long post you felt was weak

I didn't pick out a line I felt was weak. I picked out a line I felt was heinous. Something is wrong with you.

Hating people is much worse than feeling like a woman. Don't be a hater.

How about this one: how does a man know what it really feels like to be a woman?

There are plenty of youtube videos that talk about this if you actually want to know the answer.

Comment Re: "far too small to generate any lift"?? (Score 1) 67

Ended up in a conversation with one of these supposed high information elitists regarding the content of a (supposedly) grass roots environmentalist campaign to stop the construction of new aircraft hangers at hanscom field. Dude saw the signs but had no idea what the project was about, why the treehuggers hate it, that the treehuggers are the ones distributing the signs (as opposed to people who merely don't like living under the approach path to an active airfield), or what the status of the project was.

I have no idea what you are trying to say with this anecdote.

Comment Re: Hiring only experienced engineers (Score 0) 74

It is not a moral panic. It is a push back against hyper aggressive and often violent mentally ill men who look at a penis in the mirror and see a vagina.

How often are trans people "hyper agressive" and "violently mentally ill?" Why did you make this up?

Comment Re:Proof of concept is one thing (Score 1) 17

Actually traveling to other star systems beyond the one we live in is impossible with current technology

FTFY. The actual feat is theoretical and we lack to proper technology to do it but that doesn't mean it's impossible because the roadblocks have real solutions.

The problem of fuel can be solved by using antimatter. Our present ability to generate antimatter sucks but that doesn't mean there isn't a far more efficient method. By using antimatter reactions to accelerated to relativistic speeds, the problem of time and supplies is exponentially reduced as time comes to a crawl near C for the passengers. Resource requirements can be further reduced by placing passengers in an induced state of hibernation. However, that may be a moot point if we need to also propel a shielding mass like a captured asteroid to keep interstellar gas from impacting the ship.

Physics supports these theoretical solutions but it's all underdeveloped technologies. In the future this could change, especially if someone identifies a way to rapidly generate antimatter.

Comment Re:Actually, you might want to root for China (Score 1) 100

When Yang and Musk stop talking about whatever vague notions they might be able to agree on and start talking about pouring money into changing electoral reform, primary reforms and voting methods, all of those on state levels as well as promoting proportional representation and other systemic changes that will actually enable multi-party politics and take away the 2 party systemic advantages as well as breaking the gridlock we've procedurally cornered ourselves into then I will believe they are doing anything of significance.

Like he offers no solution to his question in that paragraph or article far as I can tell. Would Yang and Musk support large taxes and redistributive measures on all that productivity AI is going to promote? No? Then what?

Also I don't appreciate how much deference is given to Musk and other's "frustrations" when his "frustration" made him dump $200M into Trump so I think it's fair to question that Musk nor Yang have any real idea what to do or really what they even want other than be edgy outsiders all of the time.

Comment Re:Well... no (Score 4, Insightful) 100

Well, advanced lithography equipment isn't easy to make, so it's not surprising they're having problems. If they solve those problems it will be a permanent benefit to them.

Also, there's no particular reason to believe that "the AI bubble" will pop. Certainly parts of it will, but other parts are already solid successes. The rest is "work in progress", which, of course, may fail...but the odds are that large portions will succeed. (Much of the stuff that's "not ready for prime time" is just being pushed out too quickly, before the bugs have been squashed.)

Comment AI 'race' (Score 1, Interesting) 100

Sometimes I wonder if the focus on the AI race is just an attempt to distract China from building things that would actually improve their economy, like infrastructure or health services. Suddenly they are obsessed with building the best chatbot, whereas America is quietly improving missile defense systems.

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