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Would a person who is lost in the weeds come up with such excellent though-formulations like this? > Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about
by embedding-shape 21d ago
Would a person who is lost in the weeds come up with such excellent though-formulations like this?
> Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.
Musashi famously "retired to a cave, Reigandō, living as a hermit to write The Book of Five Rings" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi), for those not in the know.
Edit: Had to re-read a bunch of stuff about Musashi, and to Carmack's credit, seems to have been a relatively pragmatic guy when it comes to the choice of weapons in a battle, talking both about the benefits and drawbacks of firearms (although they were slightly different ones than we have today)
- nxobject 21d agoI’d be pretty relieved, too, if I thought the scope of AI’s impact could be described by just an assault rifle.
- latexr 21d ago“Fun” fact: Even the creator of one of the most widely recognised and used assault riffles wasn’t enthusiastic about it by the end. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/13/262096410/letter-kalashnikov-suffered-remorse-over-rifle-he-invented https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/13/262096410...