grief seed oil disrespecter
@softminus
"It would be much better to call a halt in material progress and discovery rather than to be mastered by our own apparatus and the forces which it directs"
assuming that your foes are a paper tiger is just a very, very stupid idea for militaries in general
Aerospace twitter discovering the creature that is Agnes Tachyon. It's really a wonderful thing.
Bookmaxxing
V-1000 and Sistema A are of quite significant historical interest given that it was arguably the first 'true' ABM system (Nike Hercules was quite limited in its capability), and demonstrated this by shooting down an R-12 ballistic missile's warhead in 1961
Actually I think I might have been mistaken. Looking more closely this is looks more like the V-1000 from Sistema A, the first Soviet ABM system, not the '400' from Dal.
We need to source ASICs and some components from the dominant manufacturers in other countries, but by and large, ours are some of, if not the most, American servers, network switches, and rack-scale infrastructure on the market today.
I'd forgive you for assuming that we merely integrate components fully designed and manufactured overseas; that's how most computer companies work today. But did you know that our system PCBs are designed in-house and laid down in Ontario/Chippewa Falls?
Simple Answer: We have a positively massive skills gap. Too Long Answer: For 30 years, we told young people to avoid manufacturing. We shut down our high school shop classes, we shuttered the majority of our manufacturing-centric trade schools, we atrophied the internal training…
why can't we fill manufacturing jobs?
A photo posted on DVIDS shows two intelligence analysts reviewing what appears to be Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery of Ever Given during the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction. The imaging aircraft is more than likely an RQ-4B utilizing the onboard AN/ZPY-2 MP-RTIP radar system.
What kind of bubble is Elon in that he thinks anyone wants this. What kind of bubble am I in that I think nobody wants this.
We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form
1940s America: - retool in months - build logistics from scratch - 400k-supplier coordination effort - lay rail lines to support new mill capacity 2020s America: - wait 9 months for a lead screw - “sorry, the mold’s in Guangdong” - $250k for machined aluminum parts
The Efficient Market Homies are crying looking at the state of the CNC Machining industrial base. 2 Quotes on the same UAV aluminum parts.
Indeed a horrible future for all children. I can’t believe that anyone would want this for their own kids.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “My kid will never, ever be smarter than an AI. That will never happen... My kid will never be smarter—and they’ll never know a world where PRODUCTS and services aren’t way smarter than them.” That doesn’t sound like a future I would want for any child.
A bit more progress on my discrete USB device. The red LEDs in the upper right corner shows the assigned USB ID. And the 7seg displays shows the first two (of eight) payload data bytes sent from my computer as a "vendor" specific packet. I think I can actually pull this off.
YES!
Just as we see the consequences of lack of work, rich or poor, are not good, we see that the consequences of overconsumption and excessive competition for positional goods (also effectively a form of consumption) are also not good. The solution is simple: real work is good.
YES
AIs who do all of our work for us will get rid of us too. To abolish work is to abolish yourself. There are simpler and more direct ways to abolish yourself—but those of us who live in this universe will need to work and a framework for how to work. x.com/bostromsutopia…
AIs who do all of our work for us will get rid of us too. To abolish work is to abolish yourself. There are simpler and more direct ways to abolish yourself—but those of us who live in this universe will need to work and a framework for how to work. x.com/bostromsutopia…
nah, work is awful. all forms of work. this includes exercise. We should expand to the stars, but like, have the AI do it, and we just get to enjoy the fruits