wanderingmagus @ wanderingmagus @lemmy.world

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Drink up, me hearties, yo ho!

Keyword in their vehicle.

You forget that we now have the tools to simply erase the biosphere and humanity now. I, for one, am not convinced that we won't attempt to do so before the end of this century. If/when that happens, regardless of whether it's successful in wiping out humanity, it will certainly wipe out AI, along with any technology more advanced than a hammer.

Incidentally, here's the same research with more co-authors.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037

This... this is literally revolutionary if true. Has it been corroborated by other experiments? How certain are the results? How hard is it to mass produce this? This could literally be the breakthrough of the century in materials science here.

Still no guarantee of privacy. Tor exit nodes have been known to have been monitored, and tons of sites seized.

Unfortunately, good old Uncle Sam may take offense at that, and his six-shooter contains somewhere on the order of a few thousand thermonuclear weapons, which he's already used, twice. He's also not afraid of ignoring national sovereignty and borders when it's in his interests.

Not saying this is a good thing by any means, and sorry for raining on your parade, but the situation is what it is. Hopefully sometime in the next few decades, if not sooner, some kind of change for the better can be made. Who knows?

Samurai. Literal nobility, regular baths, nice clothes, fitted armor, regular training, and at least during the Edo period, low risk of actually having to go into battle (doesn't apply during the prior periods of course). Good food, good rice wine, poetry and music, good literature, intellectually stimulating conversations.

Contrast a cowboy - saddle sores, dust, caked sweat from weeks without baths, cholera, gangrene, bandits, native raids, long hours, and the blazing desert sun.

And the pirate: nothing to eat but hardtack and freeze-dried cod until you make port or board a merchantman, hunted by the Royal Navy, surrounded by fellow pirates who haven't bathed since the last port call, constantly alternating between seasickness and landsickness, cramped quarters belowdecks, constant risk of drowning, and when you finally go on a raid, you're getting shot at by grapeshot and 16-pounder roundshot at effectively point-blank range.

Samurai, any day. raises cup of green tea

"Based" - unenlightened memer

Fur-curious Emma Watson?

I too liked Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and as someone else mentioned National Treasure and Transcendence.

Would you consider Mao and Stalin to be left, or right? Would you agree, regardless, that they are authoritarian?

Just because someone who isn't cleared can see it, doesn't mean it's not classified, and doesn't mean it's declassified. They really emphasized that after the minecraft server leak.

!nottheonion@civilloquy.com

https://civilloquy.com/c/nottheonion

If you meant to post something, it's not showing for me at all.

I did, I understood the reference! Hooyah PT!

Same, I want this place to succeed!

Arr me matey, thar be many a way to acquire that treasure! Ignore the blockades - hoist the colors!

No time like the present to make the community if it doesn't already exist!

Edit: it does!

https://lemmy.world/c/fucknestle

!fucknestle@lemmy.world

Arr me hearties, thar be more ways than one to score yonder plunder.