That’s it, we’re moving to Syria.

I agree with all of that in its entirety, the world was a much different and considerably smaller place.

To play devil’s advocate though, there is potential for the right person or persons to harness social media to draw historical attention to one. I don’t think this will happen, and it would turn into a giant mess of a media shitstorm, but it is an interesting idea to think about.

That’s a good question but there’s a lot of mythos behind it that I’d have to write a paper for.

An easy example is that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of Christianity and worshipped as God’s incarnation on Earth. Muslims and Jews categorically refute this in its entirety, meaning the only thing they share is the Abrahamic god.

There are some pretty big ones that did work though. The Women’s Suffrage movement in the US successfully used a hunger strike to force Woodrow Wilson’s hand and he was put in a position where he had no choice but to cave to the movement.

That’s incorrect though. Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, etc are sects of Christianity, the broader body of the religion. Judaism and Islam are their own religions (albeit Abrahamic in origin), with Sunni/Shia being sects of Islam for example.

Yeah see, I wouldn’t do that. I would just be visibly irritated and dissociating about beating that person up.

But that would be fucking stupid and unjustifiably mean, so I have the responsible wherewithal to keep my jerk ass at home lmao

One of the terms of marrying my partner and buying a home together is we’d be pragmatic about responsibilities. I fucking hate paperwork and am bad with money, so the wife handles all the bills. She hates labor and we want to save money, so I perform basically 100% of the physical duties around the house, from construction projects to small shit like monthly deep cleans. It’s a bit old fashioned, but it works great for us.

One of my terms was that she did all of our grocery shopping (she wanted it anyways, she likes it). I can’t stand the lack of situational awareness from people in stores. It drives me fucking nuts.

The real play is to become a billionaire, and have a state of the art vaporizor capable of holding a metric ton of weed tied into your ventillation system. Add a simple PLC to measure oxygen levels and electronically engage solenoids to keep the environment habital.

Spend millions, be high for one day, develop most expensive weed tolerance in human history.

That’s sort of the problem with… reality, man. Both you and this kid are right, life isn’t black and white and there are a lot moving parts.

You’re 100% right that nobody should be getting political information from social media. This kid stating that is showing his age. Social media is a cess pool to become politically informed.

But he’s also right that this sort of thing can be a slippery slope.

How did you de-google? I am fascinated by this because they’re in everything we use, often unknowingly.

If this had come out a decade or two ago, we could have arranged international tournaments where veterans of WW2 played COD at like 90 years old against each other. It could have been an insensitive mess in regard to PTSD, and I’m not going anywhere with this as that just dawned on me while writing this, haha.

It’s been largely forgotten that the Russian invasion at the start was an absolute diaaster, and their entire armed forces literally broke down on a road for like a month. The entire Russian empire could have been knee capped for generations right there if just one nation had bombed that road.

To be fair, I would argue most people, especially younger people, are totally unaware that news outlets pick up articles from other papers and organizations like Reuters.

I’m American and I agree that nothing short of a catastrophic collapse is going to solve our own problems domestically, as well as put a stop to the laundry list of horrors we commit abroad.

Are you European or American?

Yes, you have air traffic control command them to land. If they don’t, you escort them down with jet fighters. All that has occurred here is the ICC has shown that warrants can be situationally worthless.

Yes, you risk starting a war if you arrest a war criminal. That sucks. But that doesn’t mean you ignore the warrant for fear of consequence. Now our fucking idiot president here gets a huge, very unneeded ego injection knowing European powers are afraid to arrest criminals going to speak to a convicted felon.

Are you denying that it can be done faster now? And that even if it can’t, people with money believe it can and are funding it?

This is moving fast my dude. Look at how fast a term from Terminator made it into our daily lives.

I’d have to disagree that LLM are a dead end. They aren’t actual AI, but they can crunch data at a rate that will make them a bridge to actual AI. I guess I see this is a very dangerous and inevitable stepping-stone.

LLM will be able to crunch raw numbers to make actual AI possible IMHO.

Fair point, sorry - I didn’t word it well. My bad.

You seem to think something bad might happen, I think that stone is already moving and can’t be stopped.

I very respectfully but firmly disagree.

Human progression isn’t just advancing, it’s accelerating. If you were born in 1700 and died in 1775, basically everything at the time of your death was identical to the time of your birth.

If you were born in 1900 and died in 1975, you were born to horse-drawn carriages and died after seeing a man walk on the moon.

Now, even though our “AI” isn’t real AI and just language models, it can still crunch numbers historically faster. So the acceleration is objectively going to accelerate.

Me too man. I was perma-banned for calling the democratic party spineless billionaires for the expectation we’ll get two bullshit candidates again.