piloto_ciego

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by piloto_ciego 6d ago
Interesting how little interaction there is with these....
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by piloto_ciego 6d ago
I mean, I ain't saying you're wrong. I don't like it, but the idea of non-transactional international relations is probably over...
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
That's what I'm trying to build, at least my Alaskan version of it. Off grid cabin, robots zipping around, and solar lol. We'll see how it works out? I don't know, also, building stuff is tough, but I'm learning.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
> It always put military basses in Greenland I don't think this is unilaterally true, from the first glance at this, it appears to be significantly more capability...
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I think (perhaps naively) that we do have a plan? Regardless, I have been trying to tell people in my life that the "really truly scary outcome" is not "what if everything falls apart" but "what if this works?&quot
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
So, a lot of people are basically saying, "well, this is the same deal as before" and the more I hear about this the more I think, "actually, this looks like quite a bit of Greenlandic autonomy and self-governance has to be r
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I just went for a walk, sorry it took me so long to reply. But yeah, I've seen a TON of stuff that seems brigaded or astroturfed or otherwise like it's manipulation? The EA / TESCREAL stuff maybe is just the latest weird one
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
2 seems more relevant here, IMO. HN has been kind of wild with influence campaigns over the last 6 months or so?
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I have learned all of my Spanish since I turned 30? If you’re immersed and just use anki to build out your vocab it isn’t that hard. Tbh, it’s kind of easier than when I was learning languages as a teen.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
This got flagged immediately - but why? There’s nothing I saw in there that wasn’t true?
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
Yeah, check the account age... I've seen a TON of astroturfing and bot activity on HN over the last 2-6 months or so? I suppose it's only to be expected after cheap AI agents... but it's kind of crazy how this corner of the
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
Well, your thought process is "fine" we are still evil, but right now it's a matter of picking the least evil guys, and hoping they win. I'm an American and sometimes I'm not sure which is the "least evil gam
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
CIA mass murder at Maidan? The Ukraine? Account is 35 days old? Miss me with this stuff. I actually have been to Ukraine.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
There are no good guys buddy. That’s the problem. Not us, not the Canucks? The Brits nor the Iranians nor the Russians. People are great, countries are pretty much all evil.
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
We certainly didn’t help - but I’m wondering if this wasn’t inevitable after the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Totally not a fan of the guy we have driving the bus right now, I didn’t vote for him, and oppose all war. But now that we’re in
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
I know, I read the article I’m just saying, we Americans have no idea how big of a conflict we’re in right now, and we are not psychologically prepared for what it will mean to be bombed by hypersonic missiles or shaheds or what have you ei
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
You think people aren’t working to build tooling to cure arbitrary viruses right now?
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by piloto_ciego 7d ago
War is already here, just at least in America we haven’t realized it yet.
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by piloto_ciego 8d ago
It’s just nonsense man. Like, Yudkowski is a high school dropout who wrote a bunch of Harry Potter fanfic I cannot believe that people take the arguments he makes seriously.
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Nah, if you kill everyone off who can you lord over? The elite folk of the world want power, they don't want money. A world with fewer people to control is not an optimal one for them.
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by piloto_ciego 9d ago
> It could engineer a small number of existing deadly viruses, each having different mechanisms of action and incubation periods, to become airborne and easily transmissible. Then release them simultaneously. Some of use would survive on
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by piloto_ciego 10d ago
Youre the nay sayer arent you?
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by piloto_ciego 10d ago
A lot of the people squawking about this are in the midst of a personal identity crisis because they're not longer "special" - that is to say they no longer get special treatment because they know some arcane knowledge that
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
ron_burgandy_i_dont_believe_you.gif I mean, the special team existed, and people were paid, but I bet the vast majority of the work did nothing of consequence. All this "caution" is just people trying really hard to be the smartes
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
I might be a one-man optimist brigade, but the negative nancies are stupid. There are problems in the world. That cannot be disputed, but the overwhelming negativity is just intellectual laziness IMO. That and a fear of change or loss of
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by piloto_ciego 11d ago
There's this idea in the zeitgeist right now that the "negative take" is the "realistic take" - there's some pop science that confirms the pessimists' confirmation bias too. The reality is that while thing
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by piloto_ciego 12d ago
Its just a lot (a lot lot lot) of people think that they have the right to own/control/manage all other people around them. Then, beyond that, there's this super pernicious idea that you're a kid until you're like
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by piloto_ciego 12d ago
Its really interesting to me to read books from the 80s set in the 2000s. The Soviet Union was there chugging along, a monolithic and unstoppable foil to Murica! Everyone things nothing ever changes until it does. I expect that to be larg
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
I agree! I'm an Alaskan. I think we should be doing all sorts of stuff up here too! Let's build! I cannot stand this NIMBY nonsense!
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by piloto_ciego 13d ago
I promise you, the software is not the hard part.

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