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by SimianSci 7mo ago
You're right, but neglect to mention that infrastructure necessary to enrich uranium is not something so easily squirrled away and hidden while also dealing with radioactive isotopes. It was a treaty, many concessions existed to ensure
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by SimianSci 7mo ago
The two deals you mention are not at all comparable. Ukraine's deal was vague promises with vague consequences, which of course materialized into zero ability to stop a land invasion. The Iranian deal before its destruction was very mu
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by SimianSci 7mo ago
Iran has always lacked an ability to project power at a distance. Outside of sympathetic lone operators, there really isnt much to suggest they can do anything more than ramp up rhetoric and calls for violence. The reason why I call it empt
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by SimianSci 7mo ago
Pointlessness of this war aside, I fail to see how the situation is materially different than it was prior to the war begining. Iran has generally been an active and persistant threat for many US firms long before this war began, and I have
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by SimianSci 7mo ago
Cutting taxes has consequences. Americans have enjoyed a huge increase to their living standards over the years and have become decoupled from many of the services that their taxes fund. In turn, large swaths of the populace are insulated f
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by SimianSci 7mo ago
This is not supported by good data, Car manufacturers are pushing to make bigger larger vehicles because they require very little additional manufacturing overhead over smaller vehicles and the manufacturers are able to sell them at higher
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Many would disagree, the narrative that X is running smoothly and without issue is undone by any read over the many cotroversies its been embroiled in. It is insulated from its failures by Elon's money and little else. Also, I cant hel
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
The state department is proving themselves far more competent than the defense department. This just looks like further evidence to the poor leadership. "Pete the Pathetic" looks to be using ham fisted measures to try and make com
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Conservatism has largely been unpopular outside of rural townships, and the nation continues to undergo a process of urbanization as young people continue to move to cities. Normally, a healthy response to this would be to realign and targe
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Palantir is a fantastically straightforward example of how a country experiencing an era of averice quickly degrades in the quality of its leadership. Karp and Thiel are examples of certain types of personalities that make their way into po
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Seems to be an extension of something we are dealing with across multiple parts of many societies. Monetary pursuit has become a guiding principle for alot of people, and its been revealed that such thinking is leading to major societal con
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
The answer is and always has been "paperclips." without human influence or directive, capital ceases to be become anything meaningful beyond [insert data type] at which point, it spreads like a cancer, ie: universal paperclips Cap
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
> self-made billionaire industrialist We've reached levels of billionaire worship that would make any court jester of the 1400's blush
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Sometimes, I wonder how people in the middle ages accepted the whole "Divine Right" of their ruling Kings, while simultaneously suffering under their rule. > Larry Ellison, another hyper-informed genius business man "King
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Doesn't the idea of Orbital Datacenters imply that the constraining resource right now is physical space, and not compute, electricity, etc? Did we suddenly solve the electricity problem, or the compute problem? As far as im aware ther
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Its only fraud if poor people do it. Welcome to American politics.
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
The Goalpost shift continues, If elon were working for me, I would have fired him for having never delivered on any of his projects. Hyperloop > Neuralink > Self-Driving Cars > Robotaxi fleets > Personal Robots > Orbital Data
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
> The investor's aren't idiots citation needed.
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
It's a CONSTANT stream of new ideas with no payoff at this point. Hyperloop > Neuralink > Self-Driving Cars > Robotaxi fleets > Personal Robots > Orbital Datacenters > [insert next vibe shift] At what point do people
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Major grift vibes, inventing half-baked reasoning to justify massive valuations. If money wasnt so deeply entwined with politics at this point, this is the sort of news that would launch fraud investigations.
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Software Development might be dead, but Software Engineering is alive and well. Anyone seriously interfacing with AI code generation can tell you that understanding how software is composed and architected is, and will continue to be, a req
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Consider it in the realm of supply and demand. The economics of software will change simply because the tool enables more software to be written. In a way, the barrier of entry into the space of selling software has lowered. It hasnt vanis
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Perhaps the it would be better described as "commodification" of software, which still gets my point across. Software is absolutely more ubiquitous than ever before, this I can agree upon. But now we have the tools to create more
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
I agree that people will pick the marginal value of a tool over the security that comes from not using it. Security has always been something invisible to the public. But im reminded of things like several earlier Botnets which simply took
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
I was quite stunned at the success of Moltbot/moltbook, but I think im starting to understand it better these days. Most of Moltbook's success rides on the "prepackaged" aspect of its agent. Its a jump in accessibility t
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
The Value of software is going down, this much is clear to most people. It will continue to demand proper engineering for its creation and operation. But AI will lead to an increase of unique one-of-a-kind systems created by very small team
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
"Small Monthly Fee" is a very loaded term here. Im in the negotiations for these platforms, the price that many of these companies command for their products will very often pay the salaries of a whole software department. Add to
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Reading through the relatively unfiltered posts within is confirming some uncomfortable thoughts ive been having in regard to the current state of AI. Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. So many of the communities thes
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Clawdbot/Moltbot looks to be a supply-chain attack waiting to happen, and I pity the poor soul who finds out when this ticking time bomb eventually detonates.

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