I’d expect they’ll try to turn this into a “Stab-in-the-back myth” like the Nazi’s with WWI. Trump will say they would have won bigly against Iran but now it’s all the fault of the socialists for betraying Emperor Trump!

And local and under your control. As a “second brain” that isn’t sentient but intelligent to assist you AI has great potential. In a few years we’ll probably have the models and new hardware to run good enough models locally on cheap enough hardware.

But by then they’ll have drummed enough support for “muh copyright” to buy legislation for AI licensing and make all AI models have to pay a license fee to… “someone”. Like that poor writer who had his work illegally read by an AI. So then no open source models can exist and they have the monopoly. Big win for the little guy lol.

At least China is pushing to expand production capacity.

It’s kind of like survivorship bias: The ones who rise to the very top must be the most ruthless and biggest pieces of shit. It’s like taking 20 trials to rise to the top, and to succeed each trial fucking others over and only concerning yourself with your advancement is beneficial. It only leaves the worst.

There is a good article about how it happened: The Man Who Killed Google Search by Ed Zitron

Oh I quite agree with that. In the end only power matters, and that is what we’re seeing in regards to Russia. The USA set a trap and Russia walked right into it. But just because a majority of people agree with something like sanctions, doesn’t make it right or “legal”. Only power does that, together with the propaganda to ensure everyone thinks the same.

I mean imagine we treated the US like we do Russia lol. Inconceivable because of money of course.

Right! That exists, at $3 per laser shot.

Yeah definitely scary - once you can mass produce drones or combat robots in the millions they become weapons of mass destruction.

I still imagine robots shooting normal caliber guns far better than soldiers can would be a game changer. There was this article about Iran simply producing massively cheaper and that is why they won the war, and overwhelm the expensive toys and defenses of the US. Just state owned weapon manufacturing with long term stability in planning. So if you can take down a drone with 100 bullets it’s going to be cheaper than 1 expensive interceptor drone.

I know that video but under the name “The Rules for Rulers”.

It’s obviously not a video for anarchists.

Ultimately we need certain internet infrastructure as free public utilities. Like a search engine backend.

No. But it’s not completely unreasonable to assume that those protesters are indirectly manipulated or motivated by US or foreign interests to destabilize China. That doesn’t make trials like this good, but it does explain why China is cracking down on what they see as foreign interference.

There is a certain necessity to be authoritarian if there actually are foreign superpowers trying to tear you down. You can’t just ignore it. You simply cannot have a free press if a foreign enemy is constantly buying or manipulating that so called free press against the people’s interest. It’s what we should do, force large social media to deploy a shitton of moderators and hold them accountable for foreign misinformation by e.g. Russia.

It’s very effective to rile up people by constantly pushing ideals like freedom or liberty and principles and “never forget this horrific thing” etc. Why do people care so much about what happened in China? Why not devote the scarce resources of the attention economy to atrocities in the west that would be both easier and morally more pertinent to deal with? Like private healthcare in the US is a crime against humanity that has cost far more lives.

What we DO know is that material quality of life in China has significantly risen since 1989. Do I want to live there? No. But the endless harping about China bad is telling.

The Israel regime is deliberately fostering hate against Jews to bolster their domestic power. They are literally antisemites. It’s what fascists crave.

So if Russia passes sanctions against France they can legally seize their freighters too.

Neat!

Are autonomous guns that are moved via servos and aimed via AI cameras a thing yet? I imagine simply trailers with 10-20 rifles that just blast any and all drones with mostly standard munitions. Projectiles should be much faster so it should be possible to shoot any drone down at close enough range, and it should be much cheaper so eventually you should be able to just defend against drone swarms with enough auto turrets.

I imagine we’re still far from the technological peak of drone warfare.