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@Meredicchio But this is a compliment if anything. 70s and 80s British TV (TTSS, House of Cards) is the Golden Age of television. Aping it is inspired
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@dotdump Им самим можно, но мужикам нельзя. Это как слово ниггер у чёрных
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@Zorkych Не совсем. Дельта - американские, да. А среднелёты и дальнолёты из говна и палок они сами собирают, и операторы свои. Но там ценность не в самих модельках, а в ИИ, который через ПВО путь прокладывает. А он палантировский.
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Кирилл Буданов недавно жаловался, что их не подпускают к технологиям
По факту, все дроны, которые летят в наши тылы — это американские и европейские разработки, которые и созданы тоже на заводах Европы и США. Операторы этих БПЛА тоже иностранные
Роль украинцев — месить окопы
DON@333_shumiha
Парадокс... Страна с огромными запасами нефти не может обеспечить граждан топливом. Нищий противник, побирающийся по всему миру, у которой нет нефти и газа, не испытывает никаких проблем со снабжением людей бензином и ДТ ? Это как ?
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@feferkuhen Задумался, что может быть восточноевропейским аналогом
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@DaveMcNamee3000 "Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in for hobbit-lore: an obscure branch of knowledge, but full of surprises. Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots"
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@tropicalcamatte Just on a personal level he makes an impression of a domineering fellow, a worst kind of "alpha", lover of put downs just for the sake of denigrating others. No wonder he struggled in monastery
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel And your government will choose the side of the people and not the side of tech elite, are you sure? Ironically, tech elites are much more vulnerable in China (Jack Ma) and Russia (Durov) than in the USA
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel I am talking about those in power (whoever they are) and the (im)possibility of armed uprising against them. That should be pretty clear from my first answer which uses the word annihilated. You use the word retard too much for someone unable to understand this
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel Oh, you remind me of those Russian decision makers a year ago, who thought they were winning and should change nothing. Smart people told them even then about imminent AI drone revolution and the things it will change. Yes, killing people with cheap drones is very cost effective
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel Palantir AI systems are already trail a path through Russian air defense. And what of Luddites? Well, they get killed
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel Well, my own sphere (web dev) is already hugely transformed and squarely on its way to being completely "solved". I agree, the physical stuff will take longer. But look at war. Delta drones with computer vision already devastate Russian logistics.
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel 1. Other drones and AI
2. Other robots and AI
3. No one. Look at birth rates and rural depopulation
4. This is good and common retort. Yes, it signals the end of capitalism as we know it. But with other much more devastating sociological changes, it is so hard to imagine?
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel In all those sectors the role of humans is already diminishing and this diminishing will accelerate exponentially. Have you heard of agricultural drones revolution?
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@CabelasCrusher @8EyedEel With AI they can do with their PS the same thing they do with everyone else - cut the majority of people involved But what really matters is not WHO rule (tech, security, politicians) but HOW MANY rule. The age of mass uprising is over. The opinion of the majority does not matter
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@Gryffix Maybe it's the point. He is not telling it to Millennials. He is telling it to himself the only way he can - being an asshole.
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Zoomers basing their whole identity on being young, arguably their one fleeting trait, is self sabotage of the strangest kind. Why impose a draconic definition of youth when you're at most a few years behind?
HankHeIl@HankHeil
Elder Millennial weddings be like "come celebrate the start of their life together". You're both 38, it's not starting, it's already over.
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@akarlin "Most nerds do not want to be under the thumb of jocks as they were in high school"
Applying these American terms to Russian reality is insane. Have you met a single Russian silovik in your life? Even high-level FSB operatives are the farthest thing from jocks you can imagine
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> Is Russia just not involved with AI at all?
Russia is a geopolitical adversary of the West. It doesn't have access to frontier AI hardware. Not does it have the internal economies of scale to recreate the world chip manufacturing complex internally. Only China can even attempt that.
It is ruled by a boomer who has never used the Internet and genuinely believes it to be a CIA project, possibly targeted against himself personally. He wants the Internet under the thumb of his security forces - the war on VPNs is pushed by the same FSB department that poisoned Navalny. For their part, these security men have taken it as license to loot IT companies (and everything else) for their own personal enrichment. At best, the owners get some modest compensation. Sometimes, they just go to jail.
Russia has no VC ecosystem. It was marginal before 2022 and is non-existent today. Needless to say, this is not a political economy under which a real VC ecosystem is possible even in principle.
Internet access is unreliable because Putin has nightmares about Ukraine taking him out like Israel did with Khamenei. Putin's neuroses and personal cowardice take precedence over all other economic and technological considerations. There are discussions over blocking access to foreign LLMs, and developing a "sovereign" national AI model. They even want to block GitHub.
As a Russian, you need to be clinically insane to work on anything genuinely innovative or that involves substantial investment into fixed capital assets (such as data centers) that cannot be easily moved at a moment's notice. Unless your business plans heavily revolve around military- or surveillance-related stuff - like, say, automating keyword searches on VK to help the FSB meet its extremism arrest quotas - you have no coherent reason to stay in Russia.
This is not an environment in which anyone of talent or personal ambition wants to work in. Most nerds do not want to be under the thumb of jocks as they were in high school, and leave when the latter rule the roost. That is precisely what is happening. What AI talent does exist - and Russia's "cracked math/CS academics" are in any case somewhat exaggerated (actual surveys of CS graduates show Russians to be about as able as Indians and Chinese, and 0.5 SD below Americans - has been emigrating non-stop, and this will now continue for as long as the Putin system endures.
Most fundamentally, Russia's GDP is 10x smaller than America's and China's. Even all the above aside, why would you expect anything more from it than you would, from, say, France? The European middle Powers are its actual "peers" in terms of economics and technological capability, not the global superpowers.
varrock@varrock
Is Russia just not involved with AI at all? Absolutely nothing coming out of there and they have plenty of gigacracked math/cs academics
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