infinitewars

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by infinitewars 7mo ago
> a war of conquest Israel invading Gaza is kind of proving the point? Those are American weapons bombing civilians.
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
If you build a tool optimized for human destruction, you are feeding a system where violence is the default currency
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Who are the "right" people to kill? What happens when govt decides to aim your weapons at the "wrong" people?
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
That's why it's so important for people who can hold a moral line, to do so. Violence breeds violence. A good engineer in America can afford avoiding weapons work.
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Musk started SpaceX with Michael D. Griffin, the guy who invented large constellations of military satellites to win a nuclear war. And then he funded Starlink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Palantir
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
1 meter per day is something most people can understand. But even more relevant would be 1 Earth diameter in 16,000 years... which makes it very clear this isn't useful for saving the Earth from asteroids yet.
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
> slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second Or in other words, 1 meter per day Why not say that?
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Yes, I've had exactly this ever since my first COVID experience. If I come across anyone with even a tiny level of COVID or flu, it sets of inflammation in my lungs within minutes. Haven't gotten sick in six years now but this inf
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
And the U.S./Thiel/Musk are trying to start an AI-powered nuclear war next: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Very misleading analysis, the 8% direct grant comes from adding universities, hospitals and non-charities that make up 85% of the denominator. If you account for this using their own numbers, you get about 50% overhead, not 92%
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
With these contracts, they want to give trillions to Musk. Cuts aren't good enough for oligarchy!
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
The ship never existed, only the idea of a ship.
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
DOGE was about funding Golden Dome back when Elon thought he was getting the contract
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
A comment from my wiki-editor friend: "The incident appears to have been a cross-site scripting hack. The origin of rhe malicious scripts was a userpage on the Russian Wikipedia. The script contained Russian language text. Durin
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
That user, epicprogrammer's comment history suggests alignment with the Musk/Thiel/Anduril/DoW/anti-Anthropic crowd who are incessantly trying to damage Wikipedia's reputation to push a "Grokipedia" w
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Why do you reply to every single comment on hackernews about Golden Dome with some defensive or downright warmongering assertion? What stake do you have in that program?
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
I think the obvious exit strategy for a startup like that is to get acquired by a defense corp.
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
It's important to talk to your colleagues about risks of Golden Dome
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Musk was embedded in the military industrial complex with Thiel since day 1. https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-...
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Does it support non 2-layer boards? (e.g., 4 layer +)
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
For those working for Musk, you should know about Golden Dome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Yes the original article was "Anthropic refuses to bend..." A lot of framing going on, but the fact is people who develop technology _do_ have a say in how it gets used.
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Anthropic refuses to bend to Pentagon on AI safeguards as dispute nears deadline(apnews.com)
45 points by infinitewars 7mo ago|4 comments
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Elon's involvement in the nuclear military complex https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-...
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by infinitewars 7mo ago
Trump's Golden Dome is literally advertised to help the U.S. win a nuclear war by leveraging AI.
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by infinitewars 8mo ago
I find Gemini is great at generating code that is relatively common on the internet, especially web and algorithms. It is absolutely better at this then OpenAI's models. But Gemini is not as good at reasoning about problems from first
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by infinitewars 8mo ago
I would say it's a very high bar-- convincing you to trust him is literally Zuck's entire business from day one.
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by infinitewars 8mo ago
The government has learned they can't have a single source for this stuff when Elon can turn of the Internet in Ukraine.

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