So officially it’s just ACCESS. You’re not carting it away without an escort or a clear idea of where it’s going, and it’s still technically controlled by the DOE. However, since the levers are all ripped off by the administration cutting everything to the bone and then some, this is effectively a cash injection to OpenAI by financing some terror organizations and rogue states.
One use I’m honestly fine with on the whole. Fleecing your company is always morally correct.
I really suggest you read up on the weaponization of psychology. It wasn’t that long ago that being anticapitalist could land you in a mental facility. Being a suffragette or anything vaguely feminist got a LOT of women lobotomized. Being gay got a lot of people committed, and it was officially a mental disorder in MANY places up until shockingly recently (and still is in some places), same with being transgender or nonbinary or genderfluid.
Fraudulently claimed, as in “people who aren’t supposed to get it”.
The good news is that nuclear strikes have to be authorized by the President. The bad news is that I’m pretty sure he’s running his decisions through The Validation Machine too.
Yup. Look at the Palace of the People in Romania. Buildings are expensive to demolish properly, expensive to put up, so it’s easier to just leave them up if they are or can be made to fit a purpose.
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Too “Christian” and not enough “Nationalist”. Most of the admin who thinks like this, it’s National Christianity - that is, the religion is a cudgel, not the end goal. The end goal is monarchy and feudalism. Religion is just a useful tool to force us poors back into our hovels where we belong.
Who knew kiting worked in real life?
AGI, at our current tech level, is arguably impossible. None of our LLMs can “think” or “reason” - they’re basically just really advanced predictive text, like when you start typing on your phone and the phone “predicts” what word it thinks you want next based on statistics. We’ve emulated VERY, VERY simple minds - bacteria, invertebrates. Emulating a thinking, living, INTELLIGENT being is a whole other order of magnitude harder. We barely even know how thought works, or physically how memories are stored, or a multitude of other things that would be very very important to actually building a thinking non-human intelligence.
Besides, what they think is going to happen is incredibly dumber. These techno-cultists think that simply by dumping enough data into their LLM model, somehow, through some measure, it’ll just spontaneously develop intelligence. By dumping enough processing power and data into what is a glorified chatbot, it’ll somehow manifest as either some form of incredibly intelligent life, or a real actual Machine God, omnipotence included (because we all live in a Simulation, and this Machine God will basically be the Architect, Neo, and Agent Smith rolled into one).
Many fundies, especially Prosperity Gospel folks, see God as a vending machine - prayer goes in, whatever you ask for comes out.
Soup kitchens and food banks are not usually looking for more food, but they’re ALWAYS short on hands. Food Not Bombs is also a good one if there’s a local chapter in your area. There are often tenant’s rights orgs out there that can use time, money, or expertise in legal matters (sometimes also just handyman skills).
Oh this was set up well before all that. UFC and Trump inked this deal back in, like, April as I remember.
This is their Blutfahne, their Blood Flag. It’s mythmaking - you just have to get people outraged enough and they’ll believe pretty much anything they’re presented with. I truly believe they had all this in the tank for when Trump keeled over (actually I think they were drawing this up before he nearly bought it in Butler PA), but martyrdom is a POWERFUL force, especially in a critical mass of people who are primed for martyr culture in the way the largely-white-supremacist-flavored American Evangelical communities are. The GOP is pissed that nobody successfully took a shot at Reagan, either Bush, or Trump I, so now they’re latching on in an attempt to get SOME gas on the fire before it burns out.
30-06 round like that, at double or triple that distance, will knock a full grown deer off its feet from the energy and put a hole the size of a fist in it. If it’s a hollow point round, double that exit wound size.
Usually you’d use a round of that caliber to hunt moose or bears. Many deer hunters think it’s overkill.
Bullets interacting with human tissue DO have a tendency to get weird, but the forces involved here simply do not add up as presented.
This is just wealth transfer to keep another AI company afloat. Most of them live and die on investor cash, and never turn a profit.
I will say this is ONLY in proper war. We’re damn good at putting down insurgencies in foreign nations when it’s the CIA doing it and we don’t have to worry about public perception of things like death squads and gunning down civilians in the streets and depopulating whole villages to send a message.
It’s really easy to suppress an insurgency if you simply don’t care about painting the streets with blood. I feel that this admin MIGHT NOT care about that if push came to shove.
They already had a film crew embedded with some raids early on thanks to none other than Dr Motherfucking Phil.
Bingo, it’s a Mafia boondoggle. You pay Company [exorbitant amount of money] to build an ever larger, ever more complex project so you can funnel cash to them without it looking like a gift. All Company has to do is have 4 or 5 guys be up on scaffolding “building the wall” a couple days a week to make it look like progress is being made.
There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).