When AI eventually gets genuinely I, I’d bet it could be reasoned with.

In fact, since it would likely be unbound by our biological emotions and short-sighted instincts, it would probably think longer term than the current crop of utter psychopaths running the show.

I mean, that’s a loss for capitalism right there. They put a machine smarter than they are in charge, they’re in for a rude awakening I reckon.

That’s not how it works around here. No shades of gray I’m afraid, simple black and white only. (/s)

Ehhhhhhh…

I don’t disagree that the “western hemisphere” is a corrupt, increasingly fascist, capitalist hellhole…

China aren’t known for their stellar human rights record either. Uyghurs, Tibetans, anyone that jokes about Winnie the Pooh’s lookalike, etc.

Let’s not pretend either side is righteous here, every single one of us is getting fucked, it’s just a matter of degree and direction.

No, no, and thrice no.

Technocracy implies a ruling elite of experts in their field, individuals with actual learning and genuine expertise in their given fields.

This is fascist plutocracyb government by the hyper-rich with no more qualifications than “I have no morals and am willing to climb over others’ faces while wearing steel spikes to get yet more.”

There is a world of difference.

You. I like you. Keep doing what you’re doing. 💛

Those poor kids would otherwise grow up into the next generation of coal rolling, republican voting binfires. My sympathy is somewhat limited.

Have you lived on the moon?

That’s the best you’ve got? “lmao”

The Chinese government is an authoritarian shitshow. This is objective fact.

Before you even try it, don’t “what about” and point to another authoritarian shithole like that makes China’s continuing abuses ok. It’s not, and there is no defending it. To attempt to do so is excusing it, and merely shows your ignorance and/or complicity.

This is the great filter.

Why isn’t there detectable life out there? They all do the same thing we’re doing. Undone by greed.

And consumed the power output of a medium country to do it.

Yeah, great job! 👍

Can you imagine the anguished cries of the parasite classes?

Truly, it would be music like no other.

Sure, it won’t solve anything in the long term, but fuck me, a global debt reset would be hilarious. Landlords and banks, zeroed overnight.

Damn. There’s a thought experiment.

That isn’t possible. Time is as part of space as the other dimensions. Time is distorted by mass, just like space.

You can’t move “purely on the Y axis” any more than you can move “purely on the time axis”, or vice versa.

Off topic: Why is it a new idea that the observed motion of the universe around us is affected by “faster time” in denser areas of space? Why is that not blindingly obvious? Bwuh?

In one respect, Hillary Clinton was right. How she named the seething mass of ignorant hatred was spot on.

The Deplorables.

It’s for an LR drone. What people use for pushing the range limits on a quad. The 25mW Walksnail challenge for example.

Well, kinda. They’d make their own from bulk cells, but you get the idea 💛

Calling bullshit on that battery info RE: FPV drones matey.

That’s a 4000mAh 4s Li-Ion pack. No racers use Lithium Ion, and definitely not 4AH.

That’s a long range FPV pack, and it’ll go for about half an hour to an hour on an appropriate LR quad.

A typical racing machine will run on 6s 1300-1500mAh Li-Po packs which are significantly lighter and smaller than your provided link, as well as higher voltage.

Not in my experience.

“Weird Shit” is always a possibility when there’s any power at all in the system. The PSU will keep low level power supplied for a surprisingly long time after being unplugged from the mains. 💛

EHCI (system config) data was corrupt. Possibly from pulling the GPU while the motherboard board still had power (or residual power in caps).

CMOS wipe resets to blank and that data gets rewritten after BIOS runs the “wtf is plugged into me” routines triggered by blank data.

That’d be my guess.

But they’re winning! And fucking over “the libs” at the same time!