it’s so adorable how you’re trying to be edgy here, one day you’re going to grow and cringe at the memory of yourself, or maybe you won’t and just keep going through life like this

I mean if we can’t make it here, we’re definitely not going to make it out there. This is still the most hospitable environment for us around.

I think a lot of the power of the empire comes from its mythology. Promoting the idea that it is invincible and inevitable convinces people that nothing can be done about it.

A comeback truly worthy of an edgy 13 year old. One day you’ll even grow pubes.

China does because it’s not a capitalist shithole https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202410/28/content_WS671f6db9c6d0868f4e8ec5dc.html

It seems like a lot of the moons in the outer solar system may have oceans that are just right. They get heated through tidal forces, and have liquid water along with volcanic vents similar to what we have in deep oceans where there’s lots of life around them.

I tend to be more optimistic myself. As I mentioned before, these things don’t progress in a linear fashion. Just because there is no obvious shift happening yet, doesn’t mean that internal contradictions aren’t building up towards a qualitative change. The US is very much overextended right now, the western alliance is fractured, and the global south continue to pass the west economically. The balance of power has already shifted away from the west.

This is the inflection point all empires end up hitting sooner or later. At some point the cost of maintaining the empire starts to outstrip the plunder the empire brings in. At that point the core of the empire starts being hollowed out to maintain it. That’s precisely where the US is right now. More and more countries are getting out from under the thumb of western hegemony, and that in turn cuts off the resource flow to the empire which makes it harder to dominate the remaining countries still in its grip.

In the short term these kinds of things will happen, but these tricks only work for so long. The bigger picture is that there will be massive public push back against the puppet regimes because they inevitably lead to the standard of living collapsing. And naked imperialism that the US is now doing will produce a united opposition to the US and their puppets.

welcome to the contradictions of capitalism

Yup, because it’s absolutely impossible for China to change policies that would encourage higher birth rate or open up immigration. Enjoy masturbating to your China collapse fantasies.

The real question is how long before they end up being banned in the west like we already see happening with Chinese phones and EVs.

really on the nose

What I find most unfortunate is that these scam companies convinced people that you can make AI speech detectors in the first place. Like the reason LLMs structure text in a certain way is because these are the patterns in human text that they’ve been trained on.

yeah that would work too assuming the disk was made out of sufficiently hard material that won’t degrade over time

Probably just political embarrassment for Japan. You gotta remember that Japan committed large scale atrocities all across Asia, and they don’t like it when these things are dredged up and people are reminded of what Japan did and never apologized for.

For the benefit of other people who might be reading this thread. You’re the subject here, not a conversation partner.

Yeah, I don’t think billions of years is really a meaningful metric here. It’s more that it’s a stable medium where we could record things that will persist for an indefinite amount of time without degradation.

Even a chatbot could come up with a better comeback. 🤣

I mean, you can always make new hardware. The idea of media that basically lasts forever is really useful in my opinion. We currently don’t have anything that would last as long as regular paper. Most of the information we have is stored on volatile media. Using something like this to permanently record accumulated knowledge like scientific papers, technology blueprints, and so on, would be a very good idea in my opinion.