62% of the country supports deporting all illegals. Something that would be unbelievable a decade or two ago is now true for most Americans.
A strong majority of the country supports putting millions of people in camps and keeping them there for years. Of course GOP is more fervently against it- the same GOP that idolizes Reagan who gave blanket citizenship to millions of illegals.
I haven't used an antivirus software in over 10 years and I haven't gotten a virus or had any other issues. As for VPN,
a) I wouldn't trust Malwarbytes because they have an abysmal customer service history
b) I wouldn't trust NordVPN because I don't trust companies that advertise on youtube
I guess if you had an generalized AI meant to play video games, you would presumably need to feed it a bunch of games so it could get better.
Although I'd imagine it'd be difficult creating the "win conditions" for it to improve.
For example in a game like Super Mario Bros it's fairly simple - there's a point counter on the top right you can just feed into the model. In a racing game, you could just take the time per lap and make that the fitness measurement. This makes it so anybody can just download some machine learning library and an emulator and go to town.
But in a game like Skyrim or GTA- how would you measure fitness?
For that reason, I think you would probably need a very generalized AI like Chatgpt with some sort of interface that allows it to make decisions on the spot with an overarching directive.
It's an interesting question. I think we're very close to something like this, although it's prohibitively expensive right now. At least for an AI to do in real-time. Maybe if you had an emulator you could sort of do something like this if you're able to freeze the game every time you send a prompt to the AI.
Ie you're playing Skyrim. You take a screenshot of the screen and then turn that into pixel data. You take your current health. You take your inventory. You take your level, your mana, your quest log etc. Then you send that all to the AI and say "Hey, your goal is to complete the main quest line. What do you do next?" The emulator freezes the game, waits for a response. AI says "I will move towards the next village. Press W to move forward." then the interface sends the "W" command to the emulator. Plays a frame or two and then freezes again. Sends another prompt to the AI.
and so on and so on. That is technically possible right now, although like I said - very expensive. Every call to an AI like that costs $$$. The more data you send, the more expensive. And sending the screenshot data every frame or two is a lot of data. Not to mention you would presumably need many thousands to get anywhere in the game.
perhaps there are AIs you can run on your PC that won't be as good as chatGPT but maybe good enough to do this? not sure. I've been wanting to look into it but I also don't want to fry my graphics card
This was me in my early 20s. Drugs and sex and drugs and sex. Overdoses and STDs. Thankfully the passions of youth tend to wear off eventually. These days I'm much more controlled and content. Sober and been in a quiet monogamous relationship for years.
This was started nearly a century ago by scientists after the creation of the atomic bomb a couple years after the end of WW2.
The point is mostly to say "hey, we have the technology to blow up the world and things do not not seem to be going well". They actually give out an annual report every year explaining their reasoning.
In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.
Essentially- we are closer than ever to a global war between nuclear powers.
In regard to nuclear risk, the war in Ukraine, now in its third year, looms over the world; the conflict could become nuclear at any moment because of a rash decision or through accident or miscalculation. Conflict in the Middle East threatens to spiral out of control into a wider war without warning. The countries that possess nuclear weapons are increasing the size and role of their arsenals, investing hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons that can destroy civilization. The nuclear arms control process is collapsing, and high-level contacts among nuclear powers are totally inadequate given the danger at hand.
Now someone may say "Closer than ever?? What about the Cuban Missile Crisis?"
The thing is, we have been developing newer and "less dangerous" nuclear weapons. Tactical bombs that won't leave the traditional nuclear fallout. This creates a sort of itchy trigger finger syndrome. After the Cold War, we created nuclear arms control treaties between the US and Russia. These are collapsing. Both the US and Russia are complicit in this.
If anybody wants to read more https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/
But to tldr:
The world is in a chaotic period of time. Fascism seems to be taking hold again, the economy is on the edge of collapse, and war remains an ever-present threat. Any war between great powers (US, China, Russia) would certainly mean nuclear disaster.
The point is that we are vulnerable right now. Any push could shove us tumbling down the hill. Diplomatic crisis, another pandemic, economic crash, a regional war, etc. Any of those could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I have a lot of respect for the Bulletin Board of Atomic Scientists. We need these types of organizations to remind people of the danger we are currently in. We become desensitized because of the constant barrage of "historic news" but they're going to look back on this period similarly to the decade before WW2, I believe.
Really? Closer than Cuban missile crisis?
The assumption is that any major war => nuclear war => major unmitigated disaster.
And we are dangerously close to a global war. Personally I have a hunch that's the reason Trump is more or less going nuclear at home with all of his changes. They're gonna wreck the economy but it's all gonna be overshadowed quite soon so it won't matter.
If Jesus showed up he would be considered a radical woke liberal.
"Love your neighbor" somehow became report your neighbor to ICE
To be fair to Trump, ideology is always co-opted and interpreted however convenient. The Nazis were "socialist" after all. NK is a people's republic. etc
I used to regularly visit a kava bar that happened to become a hang out spot for cops and military people. Honestly they didn't seem that bad. One guy would come in every day for a kratom we'd take shells together. He played Slay the Spire on his switch, would ask for tips cause he kinda sucked.
Really they take easily impressionable young men and through the system mold them into something toxic. We become the roles we play. Shakespeare or something
From what I gather, you're making the insinuation that the people who refused to vote for Kamala due to her (and Biden's) support of Israel are responsible for Trump and his heavy-handed approach.
I'd retort by stating that Israel has killed near 100k Palestinians and reduced most of the territory to rubble all while Biden's administration had been sending bombs, guns, tanks, missiles, and money.
The main difference between Trump and Biden on this issue is how loud and open they are about it.
Is there a difference between discretely supporting apartheid or openly supporting apartheid? Probably, in an intellectual sense. But what difference does it make to the tens of thousands of Gazan widows?
Do you mean the promoted content done by the youtubers themselves? Because there are no YouTube ads when you use Premum.
And Premium recently came out with a feature that makes it really easy to skip the promotional content.
I spent like a full week setting up my nvim config and it's the only thing I use. Fits like a glove and everything else feels off.
Although VS Code + vim mode isn't bad.
What kinda stuff do you usually write? These days I'm mostly doing react native. I wonder if Kate plays nicely with vim mode. I use Gnome on my Arch so I try to avoid KDE applications.
Immigration detention centers have been around for a while now. Virtually all of them ran by private corporations. People rail against private prisons but they make up a tiny tiny minority of prisoners. Over 90% of immigration detention centers are privately owned.
So we're going to throw millions of people into camps so that a few corporations can extract a ton of public taxpayer money. They're also gonna stay there for years because it's logistically impossible to move over 10 million people quickly.
I didn't think fascism would happen again my lifetime. But I guess here we are