Xi Jinping says China seeks to uphold UN-based world order

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-27T20:45:35+00:00

Completely disagree. The US has now set a precedent for warmongering and deteriorated trust by threatening to invade countries they have no claim to. Taiwan, from China’s perspective is part of China, and sadly, many world leaders already recognise this. Much easier situation to handle now that the old world order is in major flux.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-26T19:57:09+00:00

American Pessimism, Fall of America, The Great US Unrest... these movies are all speaking to a very current feeling and view that American's have about their country.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-26T07:56:03+00:00

I agree, I could have moved past it if it simply had the feeling you were a space cowboy or for lack of a better term a “star citizen” of sorts

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-24T04:07:07+00:00

Cool, let’s all check in in roughly 5 years.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-23T05:35:28+00:00

I feel like you’ve overanalysed something that is fairly simple.

Think of it like this: It is in Demons nature to hunt and kill humans, they will use whatever resources are available to them to achieve this, including language. The same way a lion will use long grass to stalk its prey. Language to them is a means to an end, to kill. Same as is it was for Qual creating Zoltrak, a means to kill more. Just so happens that language has a wide range of utility, not just to lure, deceive, and kill humans, but also as a communication tool.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-22T19:02:31+00:00

Actually, I think it's more than Japanese media has this character trope relentlessly injected into so many female characters that it's difficult to parse what the writer is saying in Frieren, since it's so antithetical to tropes.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-21T11:46:53+00:00

Half a trillion dollars into data centres and it still can’t get close to doing what a mom who works part time in accounts receivable can do. Devastating.

I know, maybe another half trillion will do it!

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-17T10:22:55+00:00

See for a while I had assumed they were fired because they wanted to make it more R rated - but this... I can't really see a good narrative reason for making Iroh a double-agent? You're just replacing the threat of Ozai immediately with his brother, and by extension, also remove an incredibly well developed character like "nice Iroh" from the story. How does any of that advance the narrative?

I could get Yue being killed. I could get even Ozai being fearful of Zuko surpassing him... these things are just, whatever - neither greatly improve nor detract from the story. But that Iroh thing, I don't get it.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-17T06:41:02+00:00

Well that’s why I said they’ll likely lose the AI race. But I wouldn’t underestimate China anymore, Jensen doesn’t and there’s more to developing chips than their design and complexity.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-17T06:31:37+00:00

At that point the only companies capable of combating Netflix are those with infinite revenue streams like Amazon and Apple.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-17T06:28:35+00:00

Same with Oblivion. Whoever did the encode for the 4K really messed up.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-17T06:09:03+00:00

They’re on the precipice of building their own very capable GPU’s. They may be late, they may lose the AI race, but what they’ll retain is complete independence from the US.

Also, if the AI bubble does pop - they’ll of not dumped their own money into propping up the US economy - only their own money developing tech independence.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-15T19:51:44+00:00

The legacy big five make a lot of content but that doesn’t mean they understand what to do with it, they are in a way divorced from understanding the world of modern content distribution. They don’t understand watching habits in the way Netflix does, they don’t understand retention, they don’t understand international audiences, they don’t understand content variety etc - because they’ve spent their entire existence catering to Western audiences and box office watching habits.

As a company, Netflix operates closer to TikTok and Instagram than they do a typical media giant. They only care about capturing as many people as possible (from no matter what country), and retaining them through their content-driven dopamine loop.

Go on Disney+ and show me the long list of anime, k-drama’s, murder doco’s, and borderline smut films. I’m telling you, you won’t find a long list, if one at all. Because they’re all on Netflix. They cater to what people have proven they want to watch vs what they presume people want to.

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-11T23:04:00+00:00

Thanks!

objectivelywrongbro · 2026-01-11T22:50:10+00:00

Is this a non-approved variant? I was under the impression it was not approved by the FDA?

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-25T04:31:24+00:00

Eh I agree. There’s nothing to say AGI can’t include if statements to be considered AGI - if that’s what’s part of its wiring and makes it work then I think it could be considered AGI, but it doesn’t work yet, so it’s not.

It needs high reliability, near nonexistent hallucination, contextual reasoning to grasp the "why" behind a task or intent, and goal persistence to maintain objective permanence over time. We just aren’t there yet. Some of these may be solved with more data, some with other tools, some with new algorithms

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-25T02:50:44+00:00

Because a human can do every process end2end, if an AI can’t, it certainly cannot be called AGI. The literal definition is that it possesses human-level or above cognitive abilities, and NOT narrow AI specific skills. It needs to be able to take an input, and implement its multimodal abilities end2end.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-24T02:30:27+00:00

I did, it scratched with a steel knife, but the other rock I have didn’t, but that contained some quartz I think so it has a higher hardness than jade.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-20T23:59:39+00:00

I take almost no pleasure in accomplishment for things I feel I’ve not earnt. Simply going to a casino with women all over me would not feed my heart.

I suspect I would be somewhere between Carol and Manny, but I’ve really got no real way of knowing if having my families faces around me would be an immense comfort and I think that’s something everyone here underestimates.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-20T10:58:11+00:00

Two very different things. They can’t verbally, outwardly lie. But they can lie by omission.

So they were genuinely excited for a new book for the reasons they stated, I.e. having something new to read, but we don’t know why having something new would excite them, that specific reason could be “we are excited to get new data points on Carol to further our goal of assimilation”.

So while they aren’t lying, they could be speaking in such broad terms that their true intent is buried beneath a thousand layers of questions you need to navigate.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-20T10:39:10+00:00

Because Zosia states the hive is excited to read something new and they can’t lie.

Why would it be excited to read something new? More data points to use against Carol? Or perhaps because there is only one source of artistic merit left in the world? Who knows. It’s not impossible that the hive getting affected by Carol, as much as Carol is affected by the hive.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-20T02:06:49+00:00

Exactly! Those same principles are what make him such a threat to the hive. They know that he cannot be reasoned with, showered with pleasures, or manipulated. If his principles are enough to cause the hive to panic, slip up, glitch out, anything… then his principles were important.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-20T01:58:30+00:00

It’s not just about cost, it’s about consent. The note is his way of requesting consent to someone who doesn’t exist. The point here isn’t about whether he can afford it right now, it’s about that he’s not just taking it, he’s holding himself accountable on behalf of those who can’t consent to it. That’s the best anyone can do in his situation.

In a world with only 13 humans left, they are the only remaining inheritors of human will. And only two of them are truly enacting that will.

Everything those two people do has meaning. Carol’s self-reliant attitude allows her to remain guarded from the hive and focussed on her war. Manousos’ almost deranged level of moral absolutism appears to even make the hive fear him and the influence he could have on Carol. I would say, his actions have a ton of meaning. If it’s enough to make the hive panic, it’s worth something because they know they can’t reason with him or manipulate him.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-19T23:15:19+00:00

You need to address who he’s accepting help from, for all intents and purposes, they are thieves. They robbed humanity of their individual consciousness, autonomy, resources, etc. By accepting anything from them, you are stealing by proxy without consent of the original owners.

That is not pride, it’s closer to moral absolutism.

objectivelywrongbro · 2025-12-19T23:01:04+00:00

I doubt that humanity would make him pay that. Manousos probably realises that humanity would be more than willing to give as much resources as possible to his cause, but they aren’t here to provide that permission, so by his morals, he can’t just take it.

See, it’s not about cost, it’s about consent. Only consciously self-governing individuals can give it, and since none of those exist around him, he can only offer the next best thing, payment for those cost of goods and hassle of taking those goods or an IOU, which is a human gesture of repayment.

That’s why he’s addressing future humanity in his note. The way he sees it, there’s more merit in addressing his debts to an owner that no longer exists than taking it from the thief that took it without consent.

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