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by c_crank 3y ago
>How much longer would the war have lasted without the strategic bombing? Probably just as long. The reason the American forces had such an easy time advancing into France once they had landed is because most of the German forces were on
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by c_crank 3y ago
>What other options were there for the Allies? We know that what actually ended the war was invading the territory that was held, not strategic bombing. Not that it really matters, since the German state was so thoroughly interrogated fo
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by c_crank 3y ago
That the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen doesn't make for easy ballooning. There isn't really a gas much lighter to provide lift. It also begs the question of 'why'. Everywhere you look, there is only wind, and no minerals
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by c_crank 3y ago
To the extent that there is any historical continuity between then and now, the 'liberal' USA still tends to value heavy bombing as a way to condition enemy forces into surrendering. Something it has a poor overall track record of
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by c_crank 3y ago
Even if you somehow managed to move a gas giant around, what would you do with it once you relocated it? It's a big well of gravity leading to a hot, fast death with nothing to stand on.
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by c_crank 3y ago
One thing I'm pretty confident humanity will never do is move planets around like marbles. The masses involved make the suggestion laughable.
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by c_crank 3y ago
All of the hardware your machine runs on would be 'untrusted'. We sit on a swiss cheese palace. Might as well get used to it.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Ignoring the long usage of Ada in the (military) industrial scale, or predecessors.
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by c_crank 3y ago
You can write procedural/data-oriented code in Java.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It is a quality that makes something good at drawing pictures and writing smart sound replies to prompts. And translating.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Solving some percentage car accidents with AI requires a law or a common agreement by car companies to put AI in cars. That's an investment of time and money that isn't going to solving some other problem. Everything is a trade of
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by c_crank 3y ago
AGI sounds neat because the hype says that it will solve all human problems at once. That's obviously fake and wrong, but so is the idea of solving current human problems with current tools.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I'm not disputing that. I just think that intelligence or 'sapience' is not something that requires reverence on our part.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>If we can't tell it apart from us.. and if we know it is most definitely not alive or even mysterious.. what does that say about us? Less than people think. We know that being a biological system differentiates us. If intelligent s
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by c_crank 3y ago
You can give them agency or a good approximation of that via self generated prompts. Of course, just agency + intelligence doesn't equal SkyNet.
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by c_crank 3y ago
While Java is the 'safe' pick now, remember that it was once a language being fad pushed by Sun and Smalltalk fans.
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by c_crank 3y ago
This attitude smells like unconscious job security to me. A world where everyone believes they should rewrite it in Rust is a world where Rust developers are in demand. A world where everyone has seen the light and accepted Haskell as their
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by c_crank 3y ago
The replacement languages for C in systems programming aren't memory safe. They can cause segfaults. They have additional tools and syntax rules to make it less likely, but they can and will have memory bugs.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Bug free code only exists when it can be formally verified.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Language warring isn't really pointless, because generating hype and buzz is what drives BIG-BUSINESS-CORPS into adopting new languages for their flavor of the decade.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>It’s completely within the realm of expectation that you could have a nation-state level initiative to propagandize your enemy’s populace from the inside out. Basically 2015+ Russian disinformation tactics but massively scaled up. And t
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by c_crank 3y ago
The expense seems to have gone down enough in recent years that there are too many sketchy biolabs mixing a lot of base pairs together. Or doing other kinds of things to cross breed these bugs.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It seems very close to resurrecting ancient diseases and protein strands 'just because we can'.
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by c_crank 3y ago
AI already does 'innovative' work in the art field. It makes new images, new things that have not been digitally painted before. I think that making new proofs or new other intellectual things is something that can be solved just
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by c_crank 3y ago
As far as 'AI risk' stuff goes, I expect this kind of shit to actually kill people.
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by c_crank 3y ago
There are judges, and they incentive verbal diarrhea by making the winners the one who can produce the most 'correct' arguments in the least amount of time. This perverse incentive structure does not exist anywhere else except in
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by c_crank 3y ago
High school debate will not be on the same level as Plato, not unless they are miraculously talented high schoolers involved. The techniques that are taught in high school debate still make it far less resembling Plato's writings, or a
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by c_crank 3y ago
Unable? No. The format of competitive debates often lends itself to awarding 'points' based on the number of arguments that can be put out, rather than examining their validity. A time limit only makes that pressure worse. The Soc
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by c_crank 3y ago
Perhaps adding a strict time limit to a debate is also a gimmick.
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by c_crank 3y ago
High school debates are remarkable for managing to put in 5 slogans in the same amount of time a president would manage one.

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