Neither are most of the people they are deporting. This isn’t really about threats to the US it is about threats to their dominance. Suppression of political opponents.

Every new stupid implementation of AI feels like a prank.

For all the appearance of “competition” Thiel is balls deep in OpenAI since inception.

I had assumed he was using it to gather info on Palantir targets but it is obviously multi tasking now.

According to my last update, the 30,000 children I targeted as equivalent to 1,500 troops have already been liquidated. In future, here are the steps I will take to improve my target selection.

bizarre, dismal

What’s bizarre and dismal is that someone is so starved for dopamine and attention from corporations that this is how they perceive what life looks like when you are not being targetted.

This is my normal view and it is far better.

They did. I am confused too.

You may need to warn her about peaches.

This is like being in 2001 all over again. “Iraq Iran has Weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons and we need to save its women”.

Saving women by bombing them to death.

The Velvet Lurker.

We live in a world where this building was signed off on and built, and that was before AI, so multiple incompetent people are getting through engineering.

As for incompetent doctors there is now an agency tasked with catching them.

We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.

Your disbelief is strange.

People occasionally ask questions in lectures. Anything they are confused about gets covered off in tutorials later. Lecturers and tutors both have office hours where further questions are asked.

If a student has learning difficulties or special requirements there is pastoral care available for that.

It’s really not mysterious.

Speedrun to Idiocracy.

Unfortunately no, there are a bunch of times in both the Torah and the Bible where God explicitly tells Israel to commit genocide, eg Amalek.

Yes. You can see why I think this will have long-term global implications for nuclear armament.

For many years Iran was enriching uranium and various other countries were like, no pls.

This is a massive oversimplification but basically back in 2014-15 Iran agreed to stop trying to build nuclear weapons capabilities (and have increased surveillance of what it was doing) in exchange for lifted sanctions.

Trump of course undid all that, Biden tried to reinstate it, Trump seems to prefer to let Israel bomb Iran instead.

So in my view what has just been proven here (and in Ukraine) is if you trust the US and don’t arm, you will get attacked by your enemies.

It has implications for nuclear armament. Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay in power, and Iran is now further incentivized to arm itself to deter that.

Other countries in similar positions are seeing how having agreed to a non proliforation deal in the past with the US has panned out for Iran.

So more nuclear armament is probably more attractive to certain countries who don’t want to be the Iran or Ukraine of their regions.

In case they need a massive public distraction from something else.

This part’s interesting

Mary Dietz, in her essay “Trapping The Prince”, writes that Machiavelli’s agenda was not to be satirical, as Rousseau had argued, but instead was “offering carefully crafted advice (such as arming the people) designed to undo the ruler if taken seriously and followed.”[83] By this account, the aim was to reestablish the republic in Florence. She focuses on three categories in which Machiavelli gives paradoxical advice:

He discourages liberality and favors deceit to guarantee support from the people. Yet Machiavelli is keenly aware of the fact that an earlier pro-republican coup had been thwarted by the people’s inaction that itself stemmed from the prince’s liberality.

He supports arming the people despite the fact that he knows the Florentines are decidedly pro-democratic and would oppose the prince.

He encourages the prince to live in the city he conquers. This opposes the Medici’s habitual policy of living outside the city. It also makes it easier for rebels or a civilian militia to attack and overthrow the prince.

Machiavelli wanted a Republic, another inyerpretation is he put in a bunch of bad advice in the hopes of them taking it and being overthrown.