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Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says (www.defenseone.com)

Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says::The path to ethical AI is a “very important discussion” being held at DOD’s “very highest levels,” says service’s programs chief.

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It intentionally excludes Islam for purely racist reasons.

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It’s a term invented and popularized by racist people to make racist policies (yes even Orwell - “Shooting an Elephant” is sus af) . There is already a term that refers to all three Abrahamic religions! By specifically excluding Islam, they are able to exclude the Arab world and all those nonwhite Muslims and make them into an Other. It’s an underpinning ethical framework for shit like the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, overthrowing Ghaddafi and the Muslim Brotherhood and plunging North Africa into chaos, and ethnically cleansing Palestine.

It needs to fucking stop.

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People are one thing, but the fucking Pentagon shouldn’t be talking about it! There’s nothing intellectual about this shit.

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Well, to be fair, the Pentagon never wiped out the entire human race and forced it to restart from a single family.

So, God? More evil than the Pentagon.

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You could have a personal garden, but to have a farm you’d have to obtain a lot of land. Then you’d have to make the land productive with either large and resource hungry machinery i.e. capital or you’d have to obtain and exploit the labor of farm workers to work by hand.

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You and your community collectively owning and operating a farm is literally a communal farm.

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Personal property is for personal use. That’s it.

Once you start to accumulate surplus property then its very obviously not personal anymore. A person that doesn’t want a garden won’t have one to sell you, because they wouldn’t have one in the first place.

Don’t think in terms of “right” and “wrong”. Think materially.

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We queer people are a threat to the reproduction of labor. Literally, I will never reproduce. That means I’m not going to create more workers to feed the labor force, which means the labor market will become tighter because I have the audacity to not do my duty to the money line.

In order for wages to stay low we must be stopped from our assault on the labor force!

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BRICAS

No wait

CRABIS

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We’ve had proof since 2015 when Princeton published a study showing that "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

That’s why we call it the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

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“political policies are politically motivated”

this angers the westerner

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Sketch artist having a laff with this one

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… what do they expect to happen in 2025?

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I’m an assembly line worker and have been for about five years now at different factories. Refrigerators, car parts, ag equipment, etc.

There’s a job opening coming up at a plant that offers college benefits though, so hopefully I get to join y’all in tech in a few years. Hopefully working with so many robots and machines will give me an advantage through sheer osmosis lol

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Countdown to Biden’s next antiChina gaff

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This is fine. 🐶 ☕

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based DPRK defending against Amerikan invasion

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Prison guards.

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Yes I’m sure the problem is those pesky government regulations.

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Because Israel is part of the same genocidal white settler project as the US and Canada and Australia. Their geopolitical situation is the same, they’re just closer to the beginning.

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Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime.

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All cars should be taken off the road.

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The closest city is 15 miles away from me. I do drive, though I’ve actually commuted by bike a few dozen times (thank goodness for ebikes!)

All cars should be taken off the road, and furthermore, everyone should live in dense housing in the city. I wish I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere, it’s extremely inefficient and a terrible use of resources.

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I’ll preface this with saying I understand China probably lied about its numbers. There’s no way the zero COVID policy actually resulted in zero COVID.

According to that article, COVID may have resulted in a million deaths in China above the long-term trend line in the last 3 years. This is known as the excess mortality rate, which we can directly compare to other countries even if China lied about COVID mortality (and hey, maybe they did - it would be in their own interests so it’s plausible)

According to this article, since the pandemic began the US’s excess deaths have also sparked sharply even as the COVID mortality rate falls in official government data (sound familiar?) FTA: Since the pandemic began, excess deaths are up by more than 1.25 million in the U.S., about 15% higher than in the pre-pandemic years. That’s worse even when you don’t take populations into account!

Now we can do excess deaths per capita to compare these two policies:

  • China’s population is notoriously huge, with currently 1.412 billion people living in China. 1 million excess deaths among 1.412 billion people gives us an excess death rate of ~0.07%
  • America is a much smaller country, with 331.9 million people. 1.25 million excess deaths among 331.9 million gives us an excess death rate of ~0.38%

That means America’s policies were 5x worse on a per capita basis. The zero COVID policy wasn’t perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than the Let 'er Rip! policy of the rest of the West.

If China had responded as badly as the US and had an excess death rate of ~0.38% then over 5 million people would have died. Zero COVID saved so many lives that Chinese life expectancy actually rose above American life expectancy!

America is the worst of its cohorts, but the rest of the West failed too!

  • France had 151,000 excess deaths. At that rate China would have lost over 3 million
  • Germany had 254,000 excess deaths . At that rate China would have lost over 4 million
  • Britain had 237,000 excess deaths. At that rate China would have lost just under 5 million.

In fairness, China only barely outcompeted South Korea at 42,000 excess deaths - at that rate China would have lost 1.14 million instead of a measly 1 million. That’s still 140,000 lives that were saved because of zero COVID that would have died with the extremely effective South Korean policies.

In conclusion, China is a positive force in the world and I know which side I’m on in the next Cold War.

Pick a side liberals. 😘

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Biden’s policies were just as bad! The majority of the deaths occurred after Trump left office!

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Relying on businesses to self regulate doesn’t work?

I am shocked! Shocked!

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Ironically, the efforts to fight inflation are actually driving dedollarization by making it more painful to borrow dollars.

Then, because global demand for dollars falls due to dedollarization, inflation necessitates continued tight monetary policy.

Not looking good for the US.

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Inflation, surprisingly, has slowed down recently. I definitely expected it to continue at an elevated rate forever as dedollarization accelerated. It might just be a false plateau before something else causes inflation to spike again, but if not then this hypothesis (dedollarization is driving inflation) might not be sound.

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Possibly! Which, in turn, would weaken the USs positive relationships with those countries as they’re pressured on multiple fronts (losses from trade competition, fallout from the Russian conflict, growing unrest from within the country) and thus accelerate dedollarization and then inflation. That would take time, though, and require another point of rupture that I certainly can’t predict!

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It’s worse because McCarthy is also an extremist, he’s just more politically savvy and knows how unpopular the extreme agenda actually is. He knows that he needs to sneak this stuff in under the radar and through unelected processes so the people don’t get a say in the outcome.

Instead he’s forced to advance the extreme agenda faster than he wants, but he still wants everything in this bill.

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It’s amazing how we’ve allowed a lack of regulation to completely destroy a fundamental form of modern communication. You basically can’t call a stranger and expect them to answer the phone, everyone is screening all their calls because more than half are scams!

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The US claims the dud rate is around 2%

Do you believe them?

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Nuclear Armageddon is good actually!

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“Reparations” not only imply guilt, but also justice and fairness. Contributing to a fund that doesn’t cover even a fraction of the damage caused by the US is not nearly good enough and proves that the US should be forced to pay reparations.

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You have to account for outsourcing of industry when considering emissions. If the emissions are coming from China, but they’re coming from a US-based company that’s making products for people in the US, then you can’t really blame China for those emissions. It’s certainly not a simple matter, but let’s not pretend like this is some impossible thing to measure.

China must pay its fair share to help save the world, but determining “fair share” is more complicated than just determining how much carbon came from within the borders of the country.

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China has only been allowed to grow as much as it has because it has played nice with American capitalism, so can you even imagine the global economic and geopolitical melt down that would cause? If China started forcing all polluting industries to either clean up or get out of their country it would cause the greatest economic depression in history, start a new Cold War, and probably lead to World War 3.

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What on Earth does “costs needed to be less per emissions” mean?

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(Aka. If they were going to pay x per footprint, they instead would pay x/y)

… okay so x/y is the same as x per y

meters per second = meters / seconds

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Force = Mass x Acceleration

wth dude

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This is new and different from before, though. If it was just for fun this wouldn’t be newsworthy because it would have already been happening.

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Yeah, I’m a vegan but I don’t bother telling you bloodmouths what I really think of you. It won’t change your mind and will only make me frustrated if I let myself give a shit.

Mockery is much better than outrage.

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Humanity will be fine if we work together.

I have no reason to think we will.

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We’d need to test and see if AI-generated content that is curated by human quality assurance still causes MADness.

My suspicion is that would only slow down the degradation of the outputs, rather than stop it completely.

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Literally blood and soil nationalism.

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I hate the people saying this is from Hunter.

There’s no way he’d leave his coke just laying around! That shit is on his person at all times, so it is always on hand.

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How does the unprecedented sanctions regime on Russia play into your “globalization is unstoppable” hypothesis? It sure looks like the global economy is actually bifurcating into “the US and friends” and “everyone else”.

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Ask Qaddafi what happens when you give up your nukes.

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Don’t worry, there’s plenty of other banned weapons NATO can use before they go nuclear: biological weapons, chemical weapons, high energy weapons…

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