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Tbh, your comment looks like it was authored by an LLM -- what is a "telluric state"?

by disqard 4y ago

cramjabsyn 4y ago
Whats an LLM?
- nielsole 4y ago
  Large language model (like gpt3 or chatgpt)
- rjbwork 4y ago
  Large Language Model, I think.
nielsole 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurocracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurocracy I fail to grasp the sentence though. What's a thalassocracy supposed to be in today's world?
- CSMastermind 4y ago
  The United States, with its blue-water navy, is commonly viewed as a Thalassocracy by a certain segment of the historian community. You can really go down the rabbithole but basically some people view the US as, at least in part, having the culture of an island scaled up to the size of a continent. There's a similar train of thought that sea-based empires defeat land-based empires when the two do battle and some people view the conflict between the USSR and the United States during the cold war through that lense.
rjbwork 4y ago
Telluric means relating to the earth. Thalassocracy means a state of the ocean. Or a maritime empire. I take their overall point there to draw a parallel to small states as islands, small spits of sand, connected by the thalassocracies, or oceans, of the US and USSR. In some sense, this is actually reality, especially under the US system of global economic hegemony via free trade (or some approximate, thereof).
dylanh 4y ago
Terrestrial state, a state of (the planet) earth. Not an LLM but maybe a francophone or a logophile.
MilStdJunkie 4y ago
I'm not an AI, at least, I don't think so. It's been co-opted by Russian weirdos, but the concept of a "land holding civilization" versus a "maritime civilization" is one of those historical metaphors that aids understanding rather than undermining it. In my opinion at least. The two organizational principles are so fundamentally different, they're almost apples and oranges.

Tbh, your comment looks like it was authored by an LLM -- what is a "telluric state"?

cramjabsyn 4y ago

Whats an LLM?

nielsole 4y ago
Large language model (like gpt3 or chatgpt)
rjbwork 4y ago
Large Language Model, I think.

nielsole 4y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurocracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurocracy I fail to grasp the sentence though. What's a thalassocracy supposed to be in today's world?

CSMastermind 4y ago
The United States, with its blue-water navy, is commonly viewed as a Thalassocracy by a certain segment of the historian community. You can really go down the rabbithole but basically some people view the US as, at least in part, having the culture of an island scaled up to the size of a continent. There's a similar train of thought that sea-based empires defeat land-based empires when the two do battle and some people view the conflict between the USSR and the United States during the cold war through that lense.

rjbwork 4y ago

Telluric means relating to the earth. Thalassocracy means a state of the ocean. Or a maritime empire. I take their overall point there to draw a parallel to small states as islands, small spits of sand, connected by the thalassocracies, or oceans, of the US and USSR. In some sense, this is actually reality, especially under the US system of global economic hegemony via free trade (or some approximate, thereof).

dylanh 4y ago

Terrestrial state, a state of (the planet) earth. Not an LLM but maybe a francophone or a logophile.

MilStdJunkie 4y ago

I'm not an AI, at least, I don't think so. It's been co-opted by Russian weirdos, but the concept of a "land holding civilization" versus a "maritime civilization" is one of those historical metaphors that aids understanding rather than undermining it. In my opinion at least. The two organizational principles are so fundamentally different, they're almost apples and oranges.