Icon said:

They caught the super heavy booster again though, a part that was historically always considered a loss. Thanks to AI.

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Icon said:

I just posted this in the Ukraine thread but I see you guys are talking about AI here so I'll just quote myself:

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An interesting read on AI fighter jet pilots:

An AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, left, flies next to an adversary F-16, as both aircraft race within 1,000 feet of each other, trying to force their opponent into vulnerable positions, on Thursday, May 2, 2024, above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The flight is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat. The military is planning to use the technology to operate an unmanned fleet of 1,000 aircraft.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/05/13/us_to_use_ai_to_fly_fighter_jets_navigate_without_gps_1031205.html

It's pretty wild to imagine a future where military hardware is AI operated. There's probably a decent amount of maneuvers and capabilities that are limited just to keep a human pilot conscious. What a human-operated drone can do is already really cool. Maybe there wouldn't even be a need for billion dollar jets if you don't need a cockpit. Can fit way more drones on an aircraft carrier. All that time saved training pilots too. Every AI drone would be equal to the Ace.

Imagine perfect formation flying, like they can already do with drone arrays. I imagine that could confuse some air defense, if you have 100 drones stacked or grouped in a way to look like 1 target on a radar... expanding or contracting formation when they detect enemy fire. Maybe having their sensors in array could unlock new abilities, too, like the James Webb telescope. Perhaps to read enemy projectile trajectories, to determine exactly which drone in the array is getting tracked by the AA missile, so it can eject itself from the group.

Note that AI requires advanced microchips. It's not a matter of if, but when war will be waged over chips. All of this mineral, manufacturing, and semiconductor independence is pointing toward a conflict with China over Taiwan.

I miss the good ole days of western unipolarity. I think China deserves the top position personally, but USA feels like the one country that will do anything to keep power. I suppose that's just the nature of power though.

What I don't see happening is USA shoring up all of this production and somehow holding onto its #1 spot genuinely through innovation or whatever. People act like America is so smart, but we're mostly just rich. China has caught up though in wealth, education, industrialization. Statistically, with their higher population it's 5x more likely that innovations will happen in China, everything else being equal.

It's not looking good at the moment with cuts to research, education, and the separation between church and state. I think most of China is atheist. That would be so fucking refreshing to not have half the population disqualified from scientific theory.

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Enlil said:

I'm pretty sure it hit a plane being flown by a DEI hire.

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The Blind Ass said:

People are such massively giant pussies.

When does ‘special new government’ agent man Elon Musk, who’s now an employee of the feds, go and grow a fucking spine by doing his own job efficiently? And sick his efficiency bloodhounds on the Pentagon? Only..Fr Fr though. I mean, just the slow, ultra x-times overcooked accounting record books. The accounting records, those who cook them, those who protect those who cook them, those who are behind them, those who wrote the programs used to cook the books, and so forth. 

Just righting that much would save the US taxpayer all of the funding we need for us to not live in a shitty country that’s forever stuck in 1984 and gearing everything toward war and unfettered capitalism -that is, at least by its republican oligarchs and corporate democrats and either’s international partners, anyway.

America can pay how many trillions of dollars to fight in a fake war started by Russia and the United States so that our misrepresentatives can have them and theirs become extra filthy stinking rich for the umpteenth time.  It’s completely bullshit. 

It’s always the same deal, the same shit, and no fucking demogouge can detract from the naked truth all around us.  Fucking idolatry of idiotic worship of random ass people just because they make a lot of money or have popularity, CEOs like Bezos and Gates or any goon on the president’s roste - as if any of it matters in a manner which truly insulates them from being beyond reproach.

These fat lazy, inefficient fucks - when you take of their clothes and rip off their skin, are no different than anyone else, they aren’t special - but they do want to totally privatize everything, and blame us being undercut for decades using the same maneuvers as always, to point the finger at the same shit as always, holy shit.

How much longer can it be pretended that no one can actually ignore how it is that there are both dirty fucking smhucks on  the take in office, combined with what’s fucking us in terms of the highly fucking complex organizational structure of the many different interdependent entities that comprise the mudda fkn system in Washington?


You have to think, see. Honestly, how obvious is it..
the corruption nowadays is literally just beyond levels.
People are such massively giant pussies, holy moly, fuck.
Freedom, liberty, justice, reason, goodness, communication - be damned


The New Dark Ages have dawned.

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Icon said:

This country is a joke. Musk is the financial version of Kamala. Guarded and unproven. If Musk wasn't born into wealth and shielded by government subsidies, his businesses would have crashed a long time ago. It's ridiculous to allow such a silly person to not only get wildly wealthy, but also run enterprises and the damn country? In another world, this situation has to look preposterous. Whatever systems allowed this reality to happen, I hope they get what's coming.

EV companies in China make more vehicles than Tesla and at half the cost (starting msrp's at $15k USD). If Biden hadn't tariff'd Chinese EV's 100%, Tesla would be out of business and our car market wouldn't have inflated. They increased their prices right up to the limit of what they could while maintaining competition over China. If Biden had only tariff'd Chinese EV's at 50%, then starting prices couldn't be higher than 22k competitively. But because the market is excessively guarded by government, they are probably making record profits.

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Icon said:

This country is a joke. Musk is the financial version of Kamala. Guarded and unproven. If Musk wasn't born into wealth and shielded by government subsidies, his businesses would have crashed a long time ago. It's ridiculous to allow such a silly person to not only get wildly wealthy, but also run enterprises and the damn country? In another world, this situation has to look preposterous. Whatever systems allowed this reality to happen, I hope they get what's coming.

EV companies in China make more vehicles than Tesla and at half the cost (starting msrp's at $15k USD). If Biden hadn't tariff'd Chinese EV's 100%, Tesla would be out of business and our car market wouldn't have inflated. They increased their prices right up to the limit of what they could while maintaining competition over China. If Biden had only tariff'd Chinese EV's at 50%, then starting prices couldn't be higher than 22k competitively. But because the market is excessively guarded by government, they are probably making record profits.

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