
dan ryan
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dan ryan
@fireobserver32
Aiming to be the best reply guy and drunken idiot possible




The difference is night and day. The digital night vision of the EagleEye Family of Systems delivers an 84 degree field of view, stereo thermal fusion to expose hidden threats, and a 4K display for enhanced warfighter perception. Double the industry standard. Pictured: EagleEye (left) and standard PVS-31 (right).



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Do you disagree with the article? As far as I can tell, it's making the correct point that America shouldn't be leaking chips to China. Fighting this smuggling is the correct move even within (especially within!) a high-pdoom worldview. If negotiation is possible, China is more likely to negotiate when they're losing (or when we have a carrot to offer them, in the form of chips that we're not giving for free). If negotiation is impossible, then it's better to have all the AI development concentrated in one country. That country then at least has the option to pause/slowdown AI for however long it takes the other countries to catch up, even if it can't do so permanently. Or it can regulate AI without having to worry about losing the race. I tried to make this case at astralcodexten.com/p/why-ai-safet… , which I think makes the same anti-compute proliferation arguments Anthropic is making on their blog post, from a specifically safety-oriented perspective. I think attacking Anthropic for fighting compute proliferation is a net negative even within what I think is your own world-model. Any successful slowdown will come from a hundred small things going right beforehand that convince everyone it's in their best interest (like the US cracking down on compute leaking to other countries). If you attack every attempt to make small things go right because it's not the big thing you want, you're decreasing the chance of ever getting the big thing.



The US has the largest inventory of high altitude interceptors anywhere. Israel probably has the largest inventory of short and medium range interceptors. Hudson seems to imply its all fungible and Israel held out on the US. The reality is Israel has applied its inventories in the UAE, Israel and elsewhere to the effort, while the US did the same with its stockpiles. Both countries played to their strengths. It's a hit piece. Poorly sourced.





BIG: The U.S. fired far more advanced missile interceptors than Israel while defending Israel during recent fighting with Iran. American forces launched over 200 THAAD interceptors — about half the U.S. stockpile — plus more than 100 naval missiles, while Israel used fewer than 200 of its own high-end interceptors combined. The imbalance highlights how heavily Washington carried Israel’s defense burden. Source: WaPo




@LeMangy oh this doesnt sound fake to me at all, my impression was genital mutilation is extremely common in outrageous massacres quick check here

The Lunch Discourse annoyed me enough to write up a small rant about how the an entire generation was beaten into high time preference as the only rational response to decline.










@LizzyStarrrdust No clue. We all think it at least in passing. The difference is that the smarter of us realize women don't think that way, and hence that lovely romantic letter written to a woman.





Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.

"Stop spending so much money on groceries, libtard! Eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips and apples exclusively, until your organs shut down! You want actual food!? Your generation is so entitled! PULL YERSELF UP BY YER BOOTSTRAPS!" Are boomers actually human?
