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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
Yes, but it is not certain that cheap drones have the range or navigational technology to reach and hit a carrier in the current circumstances. More expensive drones do, but that's a different matter.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
It's just objectively true that the Native Americans were far behind Europe in military technology and many other technologies in 1492. The person you're replying to never implied that the Natives were stupid savages.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
It is unlikely that Iran decided to not sink US carriers because of fear of nuclear retaliation. It is much more likely that before the air attack started, Iran's leadership preferred not to do anything that could make an attack more l
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I'm not sure that the USN would have been any more effective 30 years ago if it tried to make a narrow waterway that is off-shore from a medium-strength world power accessible for safe commercial ship traffic. Effective anti-ship missi
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
It's more like, through the combined use of drones, sea-drones, and anti-ship missiles, backed by the productive might and surveillance capability of NATO, against a weak Russian navy. Iran has much weaker capabilities and is fighting
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I agree with some of your points, but I'm not sure about the drones. I don't think the kind of drone you can build with a lawnmower engine would be likely to do any significant damage to any but the smallest ship. And the US/
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
That played a large role, but they were also pretty far behind Europe in military technology so I am almost certain they would have been conquered anyway. It would have just taken longer. I'm no expert in the matter, but from what I&#x
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
Were they really not at the top of the food chain before modern humans came along? It's hard for me to imagine big cats and wolf packs being higher in the food chain than beings that had their own social groups, language, fire, and spe
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
It's wild to think how long very human-like beings and modern humans existed before the technological revolution really took off. Hundreds of thousands of years of existing on the technological level of stone tools, spears, cloth made
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
It is transformative, but if I make a bunch of requests to their API and use the responses to distill my own model, that is also transformative.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
For what it's worth, that wasn't my experience at all the last time I consulted ChatGPT for relationship advice. It was supportive, but in an honest tough love way.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I like programming for fun, but professional software engineering has never been more than very occasionally fun to me. I do it because it pays well. Most companies use some variant of the sprint/"agile" methodology, which me
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
For public transportation to be broadly appealing it has to be clean, safe, and fast. Which means that you have to prevent people who are antisocial (playing loud music, etc.), violent, or just have terrible hygiene from boarding. You can&#
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I think it is possible that the majority of Americans do not know what they are missing. It is difficult to really understand how much better simple things like fruits, vegetables, and bread can taste without experiencing it. It's like
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I think that unless one is well-connected or is willing to pay significant money, time, and/or effort to obtain high-quality information, one will still generally get more accurate information about the world by reading between the lin
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
Well, then the theory that they are stupid is false, since at the least they are very smart at blackmail, lying, cunning, manipulation, backstabbing, machiavellianism, etc.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
That may be the case. Also, a man's intelligence is usually not evenly distributed among all of his different psychological facets. One can be extremely smart in some ways and extremely incompetent in other ways. So some of the global
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
If you start with a couple hundred thousand $, I can see that. But if you start with like $10,000, how do you stop market fluctuations from eating your money before your correct prediction turns into runaway compounding gains?
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
I think that many of the most powerful and wealthy have very low morality, but that's not exclusive to them. There have been many sadistic killers who were poor or middle class.
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by hax0ron3 7mo ago
Good
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
I don't think that makes sense. If Harris had happened to win through some minor change in the timeline (she came very close after all), would those people whom you call R supporters instead somehow be D supporters, just because of tha
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
The late 90s were full of media that questioned reality and authority - like X-Files, The Matrix, Dark City, all sorts of websites about conspiracy theories and UFOs, etc. The zeitgeist was full of speculation about hidden truths. The cultu
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
And probably some of the same companies where you could get fired for publicly expressing some mildly controversial sociological theories like James Damore did are also companies that would not hesitate to work with the CIA or the Pentagon
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
Both.
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
I am a political moderate who dislikes both the Democrats and Republicans. I think that I have been fair to the Trump administration in the past, including occasionally defending them from some of the less reality-based accusations against
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
Walmart shows new as currently out of stock, they only have restored.
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
The next Windows should run entirely in the cloud and the user's computer should simply show a video feed of the UX that the cloud generates.
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
For what it's worth, this has not been my experience with Americans. There are certainly things that I don't like about the average American, but I find him to be pretty gregarious.
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
>The executive branch can categorize AI technology as equivalent to nuclear weapons technology. Theoretically, but this would run the risk of collapsing the US tech sector, which at this point is a significant part of the strength of the
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by hax0ron3 8mo ago
If the AI companies and the current administration are both enemies of the working class - I am not necessarily saying that they are, but for the sake of argument let's say that they are - then it probably makes strategic sense for the

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