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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Bullshit. They have flags, bureaucracies and a monopoly on the use of force within their territory. I will not argue semantics with you.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Republican Spain and the "Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria" AKA Rojava.

Republican Spain had some communist factions too, but Rojava is explicitly built around a specific strain of anarchism, and is an "administration" instead of a government. I doubt it looks very anarchist in practice, but that's neither here nor there, and they're democratic enough the US has endorsed them in the past to Turkey's great displeasure.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you're building something new, it's a no-brainer, even. You can use panels as the roofing material rather than an additional layer now. There's both fancy products like the Tesla one and more practical options.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, does that mean parity with FF cars? I seem to remember the (up-front) price gap was in thousands last I checked. Of course, it's already a better long-term deal.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing people always overlook is that these legacy systems are only still running because they're super important. Nobody's hiring a junior COBOL dev to maintain NORAD, and hopefully nobody's contemplating putting ChatGPT in charge either.

The move if you want this kind of job is to learn a language that's not quite a dinosaur yet, and have 20 years experience in 20 years. Perl or PHP maybe.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Off the top of my head, 2. One with no UN seat and one long gone, to be fair, but they still exist and are/were sovereign. You can't say either turned into totalitarianism.

Maybe you could say they would have or will, but that's just your guess. I could say the same thing about liberal democracy and be equally as well supported.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago

Alright, that's a weaker claim (that is, less of an extraordinary claim) than I was expecting. LLMs aren't quite as good as a human at conceptual originality yet, and I can't prove they will catch up, especially if thematic subtext is the measure.

I guess I'll just say my original point stands then. There's a difference between something made from a prompt by ChatGPT, and something produced from a roughly equivalent text by a translation tool.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be clear to anyone skimming, we're currently spending half of what Russia does each month.

It's kind of impressive how well it's been going in that light. Our system is truly much more efficient.

In the future, it would be good if there was a way to allocate budget to supporting foreign wars the way it's allocated for domestic militaries. Right now it sounds like it goes package-by-package, so spending is very difficult to sustain once the public gets bored.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 years ago

Is there documentation of that somewhere?

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The US when Israel openly does bad stuff: "We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I kind of wish there was another word for the idea, because it's a bit confusing. I think originally it was "in reaction to progress".

Big and small c conservative is sometimes used to make the distinction in commentary, with big C being the reactionary stances that are common in right-wing parties that call themselves "Conservative", but I don't think everyone gets that either.

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