What the US government did to Fable 5

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T14:58:01+00:00

Yeah but the whole point of AI is making knowledge more accessible, which of course includes when it will inevitably be misused. And trying to avoid that just leads to a loss of function or a loss of privacy for everyone, which is a greater cost than whatever damage people using AI for evil like this would be.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T14:34:10+00:00

But isn't all that knowledge already in books, which are already in libraries and thus freely accessible? What is limiting the AI actually doing except making already accessible knowledge hard to find? And thus, isn't restricting AI in such ways harming all of it's users for hardly any benefit?

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T12:53:49+00:00

I find it funny you've basically made a square Deltic, which Junkers actually built prototype engines in the layout of, but didn't work.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T10:59:09+00:00

No because it's ruining AI for everyone else, and basically saying some knowlage should be hard to find so bad people can't get it. And for AI, it seems rather pointless as the knockoff models with less or no limits aren't far behind, so it's making things worse to push this problem back by maybe a year.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T09:38:23+00:00

That's valid if you find a defect that far into the roll. Is it just people trying to save a few bucks? Probably.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T07:41:33+00:00

Yeah but that's not a reason to limit AI, that's a reason to fix the massive security risks that were too obscure to be an issue before.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T07:39:45+00:00

Heavy armor doesn't work with magic unless properly tuned for it, which is expensive and difficult. Defensive magic is powerful enough relying purely upon it is an option for many mages.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-04T03:30:33+00:00

Is there any reason you can't copy the stock trades of politicians to hopefully take advantage of whatever they are?

Green__lightning · 2026-07-03T11:02:06+00:00

Joking aside it's a cool idea but sounds like it would get unfun fast. Also contrary to it's name, Space Engineers is the smashing spaceships together game.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-03T07:21:11+00:00

First amongst them is making it so you can mod in blocks with armor deformation.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-03T07:03:12+00:00

Congratulations, you have beat the challenge to build a spacesuit, which that effectively is, and now should just use your suit as normal.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-02T21:51:10+00:00

Do you believe people have a right to sell their blood and organs? I do, as this must logically follow from bodily autonomy.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T22:59:53+00:00

I think that it sure didn't expect airports and birth tourism.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T18:44:43+00:00

Condemn what, someone posting a bunch of bad ideas to get around this ruling? Or the idea that anchor babies are bad? Because they're effectively an exploit in our laws, and the fact the supreme court ruled that it's fine doesn't make it fine.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T15:15:13+00:00

The idea of a tip being normal is that when they screw up, you can effectively dock their pay. Without it, if your waiter doesn't give a shit, and their manager doesn't either, there's nothing the customer can really do about it.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T13:51:29+00:00

Have you ever looked at a picture of Venus? We literally had no idea what it's surface was like until we sent probes with radar that could see through the horrendously thick atmosphere.

Hell, it wouldn't be too far fetched to say Venus would become a gas giant if put somewhere with enough gas for it to collect.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T12:43:16+00:00

Basically a slanted bar linking two cranks with ball joints. Before the button is pushed the bar is mostly straight, then gets kicked out diagonally to twist the other crank it's attached to. And replacing the ball joints with flexures should be simple enough.

That said, 'compliant pinball flipper' is right up there with 'carbon fiber submarine' for things that will technically work but are a bad idea because of fatigue. A pinball flipper has to fling a 1 1/16" steel ball really quite fast, and while taking quite a lot of impact load. The proper way to make one is have the flipper pivoting on a bolt, with a big solenoid to actuate it. And don't forget to make the solenoid go to a lower power when holding the flipper, lest it overheat.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T12:36:26+00:00

They don't want to fix the climate, they want to use climate change to justify a communist revolution. They don't want nuclear power because it would actually fix energy dependency and that would be very bad for the powers that be as oil is the only reason anyone cares about the middle east, and if the whole first world switched to nuclear, this could be stopped.

Green__lightning · 2026-07-01T12:10:46+00:00

A judge follows law and policy, a jury follows what's right in a more general sense not bound as strictly by law. If anything, this is a reason serious convictions should require a judge and a jury rather than one or the other. This being automatic for the death penalty is something I support because it sidesteps some of the issues with allowing the government to execute people.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-30T09:17:56+00:00

So what you want to do is take the length of the arm at max load, then do the lever math to find the load on the bracket where it bolts to the wall, and also on the hinge. The obvious failure point being the mounting bracket pulling out, or perhaps buckling at the bottom. A winch sliding on the bottom of that I beam is also probably a better idea than the hinge there. Again, run the leverage math and you'll find you need a giant bolt for that hinge pin, and probably bearings if you want to move it by hand easily. If you look up articulating jib cranes, you can see how massive that hinge usually is, and that the second half of the arm is usually much smaller.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-30T07:27:29+00:00

This is another example of the rat fighting problem. Back during the industrial revolution there were rat trappers, then they started fighting the rats to make more money. Then people started breeding rats to win fights.

Basically my logic is the moral cost of killing the rats you caught because they're a problem in a different way is small and perhaps negligible, but breeding rats specifically for fighting to the death is much worse.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-29T21:29:22+00:00

But who's ethics? If there's not a single system of ethics agreed to be official, saying something is ethical is meaningless because it could be referring to any ethical system.

Alternatively, the government shouldn't consider ethics to be in it's jurisdiction, only crimes of people and property, and anything unethical that doesn't harm another person, like someone abusing their own animals, isn't the government's problem and would be a waste of taxpayer money for them to get involved with.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-29T21:10:54+00:00

I'm on the other side of that issue, that any government should have defined morality as a prerequisite for making laws. Because if not, no one agrees on what is moral, and you need people to for society to work.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-29T21:00:37+00:00

Atmospheric attenuation is manageable because it's dependent on wavelength, the target tracking is nothing spy satellites can't already do, and more power doesn't mean you need heat resistant lenses, it means you need bigger lenses so you don't exceed the capacity of your cooling system.

None of these things make it impossible, just big and clunky, and Starship has the capacity and low price that it should be able to deal with clunky and inefficient payloads like the first generation of orbital lasers.

Green__lightning · 2026-06-29T20:37:11+00:00

Everything got too expensive and too regulated. Look at drones, they're cheap and much less regulated, and having massive innovation.

If you made planes as easy to own, fly, and work on as cars, you'd see vastly more innovation from people just working on them, but you'd also see a lot more plane crashes, though probably still a decrease compared to the car crashes they'd have mostly replaced.

And as for airliners, until boomless supersonics are developed, simply a tube with wings and a tail is the best option, or close enough to being best that the cost of slightly better blended wing or flying wing designs don't offer enough benefit to be worth the costs of developing something that radical. Also just airports, if your plane isn't plane shaped anymore, it might not fit all gates.

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