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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Generally speaking all of the climate change deniers that I’m familiar with in everyday life, they have fully transitioned from “its not happening” to "its happening but doesnt matter because (pick one) A. It’s just a sign of the end times of my religion. B. It’s just a cycle and there’s nothing we did to cause it or can do to stop it.

    Once again the goal posts get shifted and we see them admit to something and then fall on yet another reason why we shouldn’t concern ourselves due to the real reason that they just don’t give a shit.



  • So there were no weapons and munitions on this ship? No drones or explosives? Just innocent little airplane engines?

    I don’t give a shit about Israel, but pretending that supplying the enemy war machine with weapons can be classified as civilian because of the ship you’re putting those weapons on is a farce.

    I would absolutely expect those groups to attack weapons shipments, why the fuck wouldn’t they? Also, attack? Two Navy Seals sent in to sieze control and you want to pretend that’s the same thing as bombarding a ship with explosives? Lol fucking biased as shit. Guarantee if they’d been successful you’d see fewer civilian casualties than any operation performed by Hamas or Islamic Jihad.



  • The key is to set up that support system, not to try and stall the march of technology. If we did that we’d still have milk men and dozens of farm hands per square acre.

    I recently reread “Beyond this Horizon” by Heinlein, after reading “Progress and Poverty” by Henry George. I had no idea at the time how much RAH was pulling from Georgian political economy while simultaneously writing about a future where 95%+ is fully automated and has only high level human oversight. That’s the kind of forward thinking we desperately needed during the early 1900’s, and are now in a state of emergency over. He refers to our current model as “Pseudo-capitalism” and illustrates in the first conversation of the novel how automated capitalism and collectivism are functionally only “culturally relevant” since the automated capitalist model of the novel includes a UBI and most of the basic needs of society are met for free. He then explains that even purely socialist societies still require some system of finance externally and therefore a requirement of internal financial tracking and accounting. Thus both societies are fundamentally the same in practice despite their ideological differences.

    He’s most famous for ideas like “TANSTAAFL” but he also ideated much more progressive societies that people don’t talk much about if they’ve even heard of them.











  • That’s the point, it takes all the factors we know about and speed runs through all the possible ways it could work. Humans don’t have the time to look for every single possible way a battery could be constructed, but a ML model can just work it’s way through the issue faster and without human intervention.

    Plus just like with the new group of antibiotics we just used AI to discover, it will allow truly thinking Humans to expand upon it.

    Really sick of this “oh but you don’t realize AI don’t actually think! Therefore it’s all worthless!” With this smug bullshit like you think you’re bringing anything of value to the conversation.