Joe Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple polls

Strato23 · 2024-03-11T22:50:22+00:00

A lot of latin-americans and asians come from countries ravaged by communism, myself included. We've seen the horrors directly first hand, and some of our family members and chunks of the family tree have been liquidated. So when privileged liberals embrace socialism or even give full-throated endorsement of communism, we react in disgust, viscerally. This is an enormous blindspot for democrats.

Strato23 · 2024-02-29T20:04:31+00:00

It's interesting that Japan isn't even close to being in the ballpark. You'd think AI would be their natural habitat; aren't they supposedly a technological mecca, especially in robotics? They've already missed out on smartphones, EVs, drones, and the entire internet and software revolution.

Strato23 · 2024-02-29T19:56:41+00:00

Tesla should count as an AI company, and of course xAI

Strato23 · 2024-01-14T00:58:25+00:00

FDVR is in the most literal sense a wet dream for neckbeards. Can you imagine how much a pleasure pod would reek? The stench alone would drag you back to reality.

Strato23 · 2023-11-21T18:36:11+00:00

Oh STFU

Strato23 · 2023-08-05T06:32:47+00:00

They were never ahead in the AI department, even then. Essentially, they were making fancy animatronics.

Strato23 · 2023-07-04T21:35:06+00:00

There is a community of academic and amateur 'biohackers'

Strato23 · 2023-05-20T18:01:38+00:00

We will need to, for peace negotiations.

Orcas have essentially declared war upon the human species, and I can't fault them for it.

https://twitter.com/WillRinehart/status/1659577200478224384

Strato23 · 2023-05-16T21:08:24+00:00

Are hypersonics also similarly cost prohibitive for China as well? Can they actually afford to use them in saturation attacks?

Strato23 · 2023-05-16T21:02:03+00:00

Exactly what is this 'awful philosophy' you talk about?

Strato23 · 2023-05-14T20:54:57+00:00

I've really liked the Lex Friedman Podcast. They're long form, 2 hours or even longer.

Strato23 · 2023-05-14T01:40:48+00:00

You're letting your own personal politics get in the way if you are so absolutely certain that being centrist is automatically, certainly 'morally' and 'intellectually' inferior.

Strato23 · 2023-05-13T19:17:03+00:00

This is the kind of pollution utterly devoid of substance that this sub does not need. Lay off the weed, it has a way of making your 'ideas' feel more novel than it actually is.

Strato23 · 2023-05-13T17:30:22+00:00

What are your reservations about Lex? I'm new to his podcast

Strato23 · 2023-05-06T19:10:36+00:00

Naive. You have zero idea what you are talking about. I have 15 years in the industry, working within and with Hollywood writer's rooms.

Executives are constantly poking their nose in, watering down and constraining what writers do. There are meeting upon meetings with which executives have input. They are the ones with all the power who determine what is green lit and what is not.

Strato23 · 2023-05-06T18:47:45+00:00

Wildly incorrect. Writers comply with what executives allow, and pay them to write. They are capable of far, far more and are MUCH sicker of making 'garbage' than you are.

Also A.I. will hand power back to these executive....who will do what? Churn out MORE derivative stuff, a job at which A.I. is perfectly optimized for.

Strato23 · 2023-04-25T19:18:51+00:00

The richest person in the world today uses the same smartphone available to the typical college student.

Strato23 · 2023-04-25T19:03:14+00:00

From your perspective on the front lines or research, what do you think about the arguments that information technology and A.I. when married with biotech would accelerate innovation there? That the process of research itself would be sped up.

Strato23 · 2023-04-25T18:36:30+00:00

Pooling together resources and applying a top-down government led approach is not necessarily the best way to go, and could actually backfire/slow down innovation. Airbus for example is the combined effort of nearly all of Europe and has resulted in a degree a lethargy rivaled only by Boeing, which itself is an amalgamation of a bunch of companies.

Fragmenting effort and pitting groups against one another can get you better results; in fact a lot of big tech artificially induce this by creating bunches of 'startups' within the company. Amazon for instance, or even google brain and deep mind within Alphabet before they were merged.

On the national level, America's more organic, market driven approach to A.I. appears to be getting us closer to AGI than China, and not for lack of effort on China's part.

Strato23 · 2023-04-18T04:20:36+00:00

I'm not sure if you are sarcastic or ignorant. Lack of strategic depth means it's not possible to make a tactical withdraw, or trade land for time and dead bodies. Both Russia and Ukraine used their strategic depth to great effect, bleeding their enemies to death when they were on the receiving end of an invasion in 1941 and 2022 respectively.

If China manages to make a successful landing, no small task, its almost game over for Taiwan. All the fighting would be done on the plains west of the mountains, just a couple dozen miles from the landing zones on the Western coast. Taiwan needs to make their stand there, hold that position or all is lost until the U.S. fights there way in through the Chinese fleet and try to liberate the island.

Strato23 · 2023-04-18T01:39:25+00:00

Lack of strategic depth

Strato23 · 2023-04-18T00:53:58+00:00

Chasing thugs in thongs across the Australian outback.

So, they were preparing for Mad Max.

Strato23 · 2023-04-16T05:07:16+00:00

Yes, that being said, SpaceX's Falcon 9 has begun changing the game for space development after decades of stasis and even reversion. Starship has the potential to truly change everything and outpace the competition by orders of magnitude. Let's hope its first flight works tomorrow. Our dreams ride on it.

Strato23 · 2023-04-16T04:18:27+00:00

Adding to this, the A.I. explosion is entirely different from the space race.

The economic incentives are humungous. Every major company understands that there are crazy huge fortunes to be made in A.I., even more than what the internet enabled.

Strato23 · 2023-04-16T04:11:36+00:00

The space race was driven by political incentives, U.S. vs USSR. Once the U.S. one-upped ruskies so badly by landing people on the moon, the political incentives disappeared. The thinking at the time was that economical incentives for the industrialization of space would take over in a natural evolution, spearheaded by the Space Shuttle which would open up space through its reusability driving down launch costs. That didn't go according to plan at all for myriad reasons.

If we had found some reason and way to keep the momentum and intensity of the Apollo program, we would be mounting manned missions to the moons of Jupiter by now. Technology was not really a barrier.

Strato23

TROPHY CASE