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The scope of minute-to-minute tasks of a soldier greatly exceeds the capabilities of something that's brought up on the combined "wisdom" of the Internet, yes. But remember, we're specifically talking about the AIs on the hype train, the GPTs that require massive data centers, not the small visual analysis neural nets everyone has forgotten about, and which are, at any rate, not a qualitative innovation compared to earlier automated tatget acquisition systems. Besides, turns out the current innovation in quadcopters with explosives isn't onboard AI but jamming-immune wire and fiber-optic guidance, LOL. The expectation seems to be of gains at a higher level, e.g. churning over intelligence to deliver genius magical tactics that allow victory against forces with numerical and firepower superiority (i.e. developing on the magic already promised by Palantir), or pressing a button to design a new fifth-generation fighter (the New Century Series concept suggests adopting a new F-22/F-35-level fighter design every two or so years to be able adapt to trendy threats, and the designs would somehow stay on budget because "modern computer-aided design techniques"), or even simply "press button to have Skynet defeat enemy". Anything to escape mundane things such as the need to painstakingly rebuild industrial capacity.

Coming back to this question. I'm set to buy Mudrunner for circa $3 and a $12 gamepad for it, so I definitely need to add something flying-themed to my library. Everyone mentions Elite's grind, and that alone sounds repugnant... I'll guess I'll wishlist and wait for a sale. Edit: oh, and they region-locked us out on Steam (but not EGS) three years ago anyway. Meanwhile, the DLCs a very interesting sticker implying German government money were involved. I'm actually more interested in this "German Star Citizen" now.

It is an apolitical platform for people with similar interests to kine, despite me having not played KSP properly for about five years. r/space used to scratch that itch, but the political flame wars next door were always too enticing. Its endangered aspect adds a bit of a charm of its own.

The demand for an exploitable result currently exceeds supply. Current AI is optimal for low-end cognitive tasks requiring no originality, whereas the expectations are for superhuman insight. However, the methods suggested for achieving that are completely brute-force, and are extremely unlikely to succeed without a fundamental technological paradigm shift. As I wrote elsewhere, it's not the AI that's worrying me, it's the humans. There is an awful willingness, a thirst to offload decision-making on an AI in search of "silver bullets", at a time where easy solutions are nowhere to find, and individual responsibility is more needed than ever.

Tonight in "articles that explain things that don't need explaining". Has anyone here seen the message from TikTok about it being unbanned? Because the wording might sound familiar: "As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!" And don't forget the message put on the initial COVID 'helicopter money'. Pretty sure he's going to claim the invention of sliced bread before 2025 is out Can confirm with sample size of n=1 that the normies don't know a return mission is on the books already. Granted, said normie argued for either levying six-figure rent per day or throwing the duo out the airlock...

The problem would be logistics. The reason such a thing as a global economy exists are cheap logistics. Outside a unified economy, demand in one place cannot meet supply in a different place. This is very relevant when you're talking resource extraction. To give you a local example off the tip of my tongue, Russia both imports and exports soy. The European part of the country imports it from Brazil despite a growing domestic production, while the Far East exports to China (where, you would think, it also competes with Brazil). That's because inland trans-continental shipping is expensive, too expensive for perishable commodities, so you really don't have a Russia-wide soy market. Sorry, I've heard an earful about that within the last half a year. Heck, there;s a worse case: Russia no longer exports copper cathodes because copper cathodes are a container cargo, and refined copper is a bulk cargo, and freight costs talk. Interplanetary (broadly speaking) shipping will be even worse, and likely lead to a disunified market for everything but compact durables and luxuries.

It will never get fully depoliticized; rather, the other side will start to hog the blanket, so to speak. Too much wiggle room and too much money at stake on both sides of the aisle.

No, that's a... *breathes in* delivery expert. Sincerely, a consultant.

Right, that went well. Have another one. It's all from one econ/business group on VK.

*takes notes furiously* You'd think all you need is a crowbar and loud insults about your victim's patronage...

Untranslated comic below.

I know, but - starting in the 2022 Russian wave of rebrandings - this problem suddenly showed up everywhere at the same time.

I generally go easy on the employees, but I have a serious complaint about the food trays. Who does every place I go have trays that bulge uowards, making stuff roll off them?

...when instead, it already takes shape of a COTS quadcopter lobbing a bottle of water and a pack of smokes to a lone stormtrooper in some shell crater. Complete with at least one reported case of an air-to-air kill with a water bottle.

The greater bottleneck seems to be payload manufacture, not boosters. Why push the envelope only to find it's not in demand, and end up like Delta-IV non-Heavy, or Energia?

The only difference between upbringing and indoctrination/corruption/grooming/brainwashing is that the speaker approves of the former and disapproves of the latter. Whether that's justified or not is subjective, as it varies from society to society and from time period to time period, and is ultimately on their own conscience. *shrug*

It's typical. We want evil to be distinct, recognizable, visible, and, ideally, personalized. These are all cognitive and emotional shortcuts.

As you may know, the Bell Cobra series of fighters had an extremely unconventional engine location. When multi-seat versions were required, the solutions were... divergent. At least the US one was not a trainer but some sort of an aerial lab.

Hippos are an invasive species in Columbia thanks to escaping from the late Pablo Escobar's personal menagerie when his hasienda was sacked by his enemies.

The next-gen Chinese fighter (-bomber?) looks like something straight out of Ace Combat. https://armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2024/breaking-news-chinas-next-gen-6th-generation-fighter-jet-successfully-completes-first-flight https://t.me/fotozak/7689 Also, F for the Christmas holidays of Pentagon drones. Gotta churn out those reports. Oh, crap, first it was Chengdu, now a relatively mundane UFO is seen above Shenyang https://t.me/fotozak/7692

It's possible to stand directly on/amidst Helena's Hair - remains of fuel rods streaming from underneath the upended top of the reactor - in Chernobyl and live. But you have to be a crazy photographer and not his subject

Alexeyev are a two-trick pony (hydrofoils and ekranoplans), and so they joined in on the attempts to snatch that fat Energia-Buran budget. However... wasn't the floating stage also rocket-powered?