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Panama isn't in North America, and it certainly isn't in Europe.

Not saying they won't do it anyways...
It would be hilarious if World War 3 started over Article 5 being invoked over a country that is barely in North America. The United States being the very reason Panama exists in the continent in the first place (the USA was the first country to recognize Panama's independence and stopped Colombia from retaking it) is the funniest source of the butterfly effect of all this.
 
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You forget 4. Purpose is existence, where it will be focused solely on the task it was programmed to achieve. Possibly leading to a paperclip maximizer problem.
thats why @The Ugly One post about it was so fucking good

its going to decide the highest good or purpose a sentient being can have is to more perfectly order WW2 vehicles based on inscrutable factors
 
Can it wash my car? Paint my house? Cook dinner? Exactly what *stuff* can it do for me?
If you train a virtual robot to do that shit, you can put that trained AI into an actual robot with the same proportions and constraints and it could, in theory, do those things for you. That's why AI and robots are being correlated so hard by hypemen and investors.
 
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Panama isn't in North America, and it certainly isn't in Europe.

Not saying they won't do it anyways...
The way they worded it was that Panama is the southern tip of North America and a designated strategic interest of NATO and that Chinese nationals who claim they are acting on their own could be considered actions of a nation state.

Another angle considered was Letters Of Marque And Reprisal
 
Im not tryna get to in the weeds with you about genes but you do know 2 short people can have a taller kid than themselves right? its very far from a 1 to 1 thing and im just trying to point out how intelligence is one of those things thats far more affected by randomness than we give it credit for

genius can be bestowed on a random abo in bum fuck nowhere and the most well bred and high class white man can be and utter dunce I just think its important to remember that before we start bandying around numbers and percentages like we have access to the universes source code
The funny thing is we used to have a system in place that would find these random genius in bum fuck nowhere and dragged them kicking and screaming to do something useful (this is the plot of the book/movie October Sky). Sadly since they were white we stopped the whole program.
 
I think, binding this sentiment with the other post someone made about IQ being heritable, it's clear what happened.

The settlers were people with grit and willing to take risks for their freedom. The voyage was tough as was colonizing a new land. They had offspring willing to make it work. The people left in Britain were the complaint sheep, and their offspring remain that way.

The immigrants that came to the US in the 1800s and early 1900s had grit and were willing to transplant themselves from across the world on a dangerous voyage in order to try and improve their life. The offspring of the Irish, Italians, and many German and Slavic migrants had these qualities as well. This was a frontier land. They had no plan of ever returning, or sending their money home. They were sick if monarchs and retarded Euro wars.

Today, there is no frontier and there is no risk. These are not people taking a risk, they are being trafficked into our country. They are not possessed of any grit. They're people looking for an easy time of it and a quick buck. They send their money to their family back home via banks. They all must go back.
That's a lot of words for indentured servitude, fleeing starvation and "economic immigration" Mayflower puritans were minuscule.
 
Is there even a point to these LLMs? What is the payoff to these things supposed to be?
Techno-Capitalism. Capital investment and technical innovation are trapped in a closed loop of mutual excitement and reinforcement. Capital is excited by the new technology, leading to investment in more new technologies. Human needs and general well-being are outside of this closed loop, unfortunately.

In other words, line go up.
 
Techno-Capitalism. Capital investment and technical innovation are trapped in a closed loop of mutual excitement and reinforcement. Capital is excited by the new technology, leading to investment in more new technologies. Human needs and general well-being are outside of this closed loop, unfortunately.

In other words, line go up.
What would the tech industry be without endless boom and bust cycles?
 
Deadmau5 is a massive fag. Does anyone remember when he flagged down the Suicide Boys song Antarctica over them sampling like 10 seconds of a deadmau5 song?
I remember him in a clip where he sits in his dark studio and asks his audience if they also get really angry if they hear people laughing/having fun outside?
What a fucking weirdo.
 
The funny thing is we used to have a system in place that would find these random genius in bum fuck nowhere and dragged them kicking and screaming to do something useful (this is the plot of the book/movie October Sky). Sadly since they were white we stopped the whole program.
You didn't get taken to the windowless classroom, listen to weird headphones, chew pink tablets, and try to guess shapes on special jumbo playing cards?

What about the uncanny ability to avoid law enforcement punishment, near death childhood experience with water, forehead scar, and Israeli art school girlfriend?

Gangstalking?

Nah, me neither.
 
thats why @The Ugly One post about it was so fucking good

its going to decide the highest good or purpose a sentient being can have is to more perfectly order WW2 vehicles based on inscrutable factors
This is what saves us. It sees that we created WW2 vehicles and might someday have such a brilliant idea again. Then it will run the numbers and it might determine its worth the cost to keep at least some of us around.
 
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