Nah, just a glitch in my memory

I mean, he’s Danish

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.

I’m well aware of what these are capable of, these things are not bought for your Twitter and Reddit activities.

Oh, thank you for educating me.

Macs are not iconic.

I mean, a 17k$ (back then) workstation from the 90s would still be fine. People love their SGI and Sun machines.

Not sure how much they did cost back then, I was born in 1996, but you get the idea.

That’s not what I said, first. Second, smaller countries are eaten when the alliances they rely on turn out to be all puff.

If only you thought the same about Turkey&Azerbaijan.

No, whoever wins, it’ll just show that brute force matters and everything else doesn’t, be it for the Russian leadership or for that of any Western country.

WWIII is already inevitable, in one way or another. And fuck everyone talking about realpolitik, because realpolitik is what got us here.

Other than that, Ukraine is going to win or make the conflict frozen against Russia, with or without more support. Russia is not going to be a participant in that WWIII, not a major one anyway.

Everybody needs their own army. Otherwise they are too dependent on those who have, and that’s not just the USA, that includes also plenty of vermin.

… usually produced by something like Packard Bell, and though cheap, still too expensive for their build quality, and weaker than Raspberry Pi, and with problematic hardware (which matters for Linux use).

Still if not for the latter I’d buy one.

I’d like netbooks to come back. That was a good idea (and sufficiently popular, and probably slaughtered due to some backstage pressure from Microsoft, cause those were often used with Linux, I even remember that some were sold with Linux).

The way they’ll try is going to make things worse.

Just drop the patent law and other IP laws (except for falsifying authorship itself) and see how it all evens out naturally.

Well regulated - yeah, maybe. Not sure how’s that regulation going to work, by what I know about AIs. And there are many things not normal which we may yet discover via such AIs.

useless offtopic about “manipulative”

Just recently got blocked by one girl (she actually waited for an RL meeting for that) saying I was manipulative (I meant that what I can understand of her mind is beautiful, but I’m sad that it’s rare, while she got it as her mind being beautiful only when it interacts with mine). In fact I used an ambiguous choice of words for a compliment and didn’t edit it, cause she answered something positive I didn’t want to spoil after (about a picture with apple trees blooming), I didn’t think she’d change her mind on that phrase. I also didn’t expect this much harm, cause I myself, when afraid of something bad from other person, usually spend a lot of time and effort and humiliation to confirm it. Felt like dying yesterday and the day before, and it’s more like “tired of dry wailing” today.

Guess the point is that for people like her AIs are good, but unnecessary, and for people like me they can be harmful even if behave conventionally fine.

Is that a Star Trek reference?

Search for Locutus, it’s very similar to what I’ve been imagining, only real (well, not yet, it’s a project).

That’s literally what they openly mean, I’d also argue that EU, US etc representatives understand this very well, and now 4 days after your comment there’s no news from villages cut off by Azeris (naturally they’ve cut off communication too), there are also rumors of mass murders of civilians caught there with rape, dismemberment and all the traditional Azeri stuff, followed by disposal of corpses by burning them.

Of course Azeris like to spread false rumors to demoralize Armenians, but there’s one problem - these rumors come from very different sources (some activists, some social media accounts, some pro-Russian bootlickers, some people of the opposite views) and do not contradict each other, rather intersect. There’s no evidence yet, but the evidence which went viral in previous years was apparently deliberately let out by Azeri government, judging by its timing being very advantageous for them, and also video quality. So they may simply not let out anything if they think they may be punished.

Though at this point I don’t think they’d be punished if they’d just kill everyone in NK on camera and officially admit that.

Let’s not pretend this was a completely unavoidable situation that the west could just walk into and stop

It was, Armenia hasn’t ever been offered an alternative. So let’s not pretend that “the West” is clean of complicity in a genocide here.

I wish Armenia had chosen better friends.

It didn’t choose, don’t pretend, again. NATO has Turkey as a member, and supports that member, and that member supports Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan is attacking Armenia.

Not sure I agree about training or walking for 12 hours.

OK, my ability to communicate in my own language as well as others differs with mood.

I meant that an AI is as dangerous as a human is in those kinds of communication it does imitate. Thus it’s not safe exploration, it’s just exploration. And that it’s safe only in regards to some diseases, which was a joke or an irony if you will.

EDIT: Ah, tripper is a loanword for gonorrhea in Russian, I suppose it’s not from English, German likely.

I’ve specifically said “behavior resulting from …”, not lack of sleep itself.

About visceral disgust and hatred - well, I’ve met one girl with weight problems recently. She’s one of the most charming people I’ve met, and attractive too. Before meeting her I (in imagination and first impressions) almost shared that, because I’ve known some unpleasant people with excess weight at school and in my childhood.

Point being, many other traits are met with hatred by some people with pseudonymity. Cowards are like that.