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721.
by ok_dad 2y ago
How many people do you think are in the military? It’s way below one percent in the USA. In the last war we fought, we lost barely any soldiers compared to the number deployed. It’s bad that we lost any, but your argument is logically null.
722.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t turn that into a product, it sounds great.
723.
by ok_dad 2y ago
For 12k, just attach a flotation device to a big octa-drone and drop it from the air. Then you can stay on station and use the camera to guide rescuers to the person. You could probably even drag a line out to someone attached a flotation d
724.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I’ve used this method for a while now, not sure if it’s from this particular article or if someone else blogged the same idea. I also prefix any aliases or sh functions from my rc file with a comma. Mostly it gets me easy to find custom com
725.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Submarines are boats.
726.
by ok_dad 2y ago
That’s not why they don’t do it, it’s because it’s way too expensive. That fact alone precludes it from being used on cargo ships. Now ask yourself this: do I want vessels flagged in the countries with the least regulations and the most cor
727.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Go nuclear means the future. Past experiments failing is why I said that ships won’t GO nuclear, implying the future. I was a navy nuke, I know a bit about shipboard nuclear reactors.
728.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I’ll eat my hat if cargo ships go nuclear. Even the US Navy stopped using nuclear for all but carriers. Shipboard nuclear is on another level to regular power plants for many reasons.
729.
by ok_dad 2y ago
This article sounds like a press release for oil and ethanol producers. Big oil, still basically selling out the rest of humanity so they don’t lose all those profits.
730.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Yea I’m saying the same thing, you need AGI to get whatever “superintelligence” is. That’s mostly my opinion, but I wouldn’t call it SI without AGI. Personally, I’m no AI expert, but we’re very far from AGI unless one of these experts knows
731.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Once you have AGI, you can dedicate more cycles to it and the theory is (as far as I can tell) that you’ll get an exponential increase in “intelligence” which is basically just “thinking faster”. Personally, I don’t buy that fully, I think
732.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Cats are definitely conscious in my mind, but when I kick my cat at night she gets up and looks at me like I just beat her on purpose, then usually attacks my foot. I guess my cat is an asshole at night! Thankfully she’s cuddly and nice whe
733.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Costs a lot of cycles to run those for real, and it’s not super common to get infected with anything, so you’re wasting cycles for a small chance at avoiding it. This could be better since, I assume, it doesn’t do a lot of stuff.
734.
by ok_dad 2y ago
On HN, you can be sure there are several people who literally believe the world would be better without any regulations or laws forcing businesses to do anything. This place is the pinnacle of anarcho-capitalism.
735.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Walter constantly says things that are incorrect or lazy and no one calls him out, so this time I did so. I’m aware of the guidelines and the harsh language was because that’s all he understands. As you can see, he didn’t even care to read
736.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Not fair at all, insinuating something then doing no work to verify is lazy. You’re smarter than that! Put in the effort necessary to research your positions.
737.
by ok_dad 2y ago
You could probably look that up. Instead you made a stupid comment meant to insinuate something sinister. Edit: Here ya go Walter, I guess your compiler skills are better than your google skills. Several cases here were in favor of the busi
738.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I think the only way is to find some space aliens which were can all hate together. Humans have formed groups and fought ever since there were humans.
739.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Seems to me like he gave up his freedom for his morals, so I’d trust him more because of that. You always have to weigh someone’s words, anyways, even “Mr USA American Hero” has a bias. Snowden isn’t any less trustworthy than any politician
740.
by ok_dad 2y ago
There was the NSA who was spying on the public without warrants as a military organization, in contravention to the constitution. Probably they’re also to blame. He just told us about the violations of the highest laws we have.
741.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Is it wrong to be critical of the USA? I would judge his opinions based on merit, not where he lives and how free he is to talk. It’s telling that he hasn’t vocally supported Russia or really talked about certain related topics, he chooses
742.
by ok_dad 2y ago
My theory is that they know it won’t work, but they’re scaring developers into using and improving AI and taking pay cuts, so that they can eventually replace them. Every penny they can take from humans and invest in AI research is being us
743.
by ok_dad 2y ago
That’s because corporate policy usually precludes running actual code. I made plenty of huge ass spreadsheets when I worked at one place because there was no way for me to do my job otherwise, unless we wanted to pay hundreds of thousands o
744.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I personally would like to see that, too, and under the auspices of the naval nuclear program currently running in the USA, however I doubt it’s politically feasible.
745.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Sure but those can also be recycled. Standard nuclear reactors cannot. Like I said though, nuclear is financially non viable.
746.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Keep thinking that, but you’re wrong. Nuclear requires perfection.
747.
by ok_dad 2y ago
There was one incident in the 80s? where a US Navy ship shot down an Iranian airliner even though the screen showed it was gaining altitude and was squawking a commercial code, but the sailors fired anyways assuming it was going to fire mis
748.
by ok_dad 2y ago
Humans in the loop generally turn into rubber stampers, in my experience. They’ll generally trust the computer even if they’re unsure themselves.
749.
by ok_dad 2y ago
The ability to sync data in the background with the screen off is one. For example, Google Photos and Spotify require the screen on and app open to sync, while the Apple apps sync anytime they need to.
750.
by ok_dad 2y ago
I’m sure it’s a hard problem, too bad taxpayers are the hook now instead of the corporations that took that unknown risk.

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