1800s are pretty different from today.
Cuba never had a self sufficient military. Most of their heavy equipment came from the soviets and hasn’t been refreshed.

The island is within helicopter range of multiple US airbases. There’s a well positioned military base already in place on the island.

Holding a jungle with unwilling people fighting you is never going to be easy, but there’s a lot of differences between what Spain was against and what the US would be against.

The biggest issue would be that Cuba could plausibly actually land an attack on the US. It would be basically a coin toss on if that made people furious at Cuba or the administration.

So the dead people who ran the government 100 years ago used nukes, so you want to burn their great great grandchildren alive.

How do you feel about Belgium? I assume you want them all flayed alive?

Historical inequity is distinct from retribution. We have a responsibility to help people overcome hurdles born from historical circumstances, and in general.
That doesn’t mean we’re culpable for the acts of those who came before.
Guilt is not heritable.

If it is, then America is pretty low on the list of countries deserving punishment. Hell, the classic European powers had occupations of countries that lasted longer than the US has existed.

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Is that your metric for atrocities?

Politicians in a country did something bad, therefore we should burn a bunch of innocent children alive to teach them a lesson?

Is that what you think makes the world a better place? More dead children?

No one in America has used nukes. They’re all dead now. Many of them of painful bone cancer.

So who are you punishing? And how far back does that punishment go?
I assume you think everyone should burn for the sins of people born on the same patch of land as them?

How many hundreds of thousands of children do you want to burn alive to punish those you think have done wrong?

You’re hoping children die because you’re angry about politics.

You’re a bad person for hoping that millions of people die.

Yes, yes, and that last one’s on them. Getting better with time though.

It’s not all for them though. The thought of the sadness they would feel without me makes me sad, but the thought of not being there is a feeling of missing out that hurts.

Also chasing them while making seagull noises is good excercise for everyone.

I don’t know that I’ll ever wish for millions of civilians to die in a nuclear Holocaust.

You went to Dallas and they also thought you were an asshole? Should have gone to Austin. Then you could have at least seen some cool bats.

Seriously though. Describe the beliefs you think I have, beyond that you decided to make an asshole comment.

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“I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”

Oh my God. That would do so well. Worst part is you’d get people betting on themselves.

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Your statement ignores the meaning of AI or the decades of work that have gone into the field.

They’re not sentient. They’re not sapient. They’re not conscious, nor do they have feelings, volition, desire, or anything that can be described as an internal life. They can’t even think in they sense that anyone means by it.

None of those things are intelligence though.

An LLM posesses the ability to respond to external stimuli in a way that is meaningful. They also have the ability to learn, which is the act of a system transforming information or stimuli in a way that is applied to later stimuli.

My air conditioner learns and is intelligent. It measures the environment, takes actions based on that stimulus, and when I make adjustments it records when I like different settings and applies that to the temperatures it’s recorded in the past to adjust early. An LLM may be more sophisticated than my air conditioner but it’s in the same category.

The mistake is thinking that AI in the real world is what AI is on TV.

In the description of the law, how is that meaningfully different from promising tax policy changes?

It’s not telling people to vote, not vote, or to vote for anyone in particular, and is just a notification of something they’ll do if elected.
The implication is that you should vote for them, but you didn’t make the offer conditional.

Bribery is easier if you’re using other people’s money because rather than paying people to do what you want you can make a blanket promise to everyone and let them work through the implications.

Did you forget we were talking about 3d printers?

You compared the people making fun of the drm mandate to people making fun of car registration because you can build a kit car, implying that building a 3d printer was a nearly insurmountable hurdle.

Being able to trivially bypass the drm is exactly why it’s laughable.

Cars, bikes, or your dislike have nothing to do with the DRM mandate being toothless and stupid.

Okay? What does that have to do with the drm mandate being easy to get around?
Is your point that it’s okay to put unenforceable, easily bypassed restrictions on stuff if you think they’re bad?

I’m not sure honestly sure what your point is, because you went a bit too far with the analogy.

Itty bitty ones, sure. And they take weeks to produce a working vehicle, of substandard quality.

This was about regulating 3d printers, not guns. A diy printer, a new drm printer and an old not-drm printer produce the same quality output.

A diy 3d printer is just as durable as a purchased one.

If your goal is to have an unregistered car, or in this case a drm free printer, the law seems silly when you can get one for cheaper than the “proper” one and have it out together in an afternoon if you have highschool level mechanical aptitude.

Making a full on machine gun is literally one of the original cottage industries. They’re hard to design but the actual fabrication can be so dumbed down that you can make it out of non un-common household tools with minimal skill.

Some of the tricky bits are making the weapon fire slower, so it doesn’t jam or get so hot rounds fire before they’re actually in the chamber. Or just keeps firing because releasing the trigger wasn’t enough to keep the recoil from keeping it going.
If your goal is to give everyone in the UK too young, old or woman to draft a machine gun to make the Germans regret invading, then a horde of cockney 8 year olds with uncontrolled machine guns and poor trigger discipline is certainly a choice.

It more like mocking car registration because every neighborhood has a few people who can build you a car from scratch in a day, the city already has several thousand car factories that don’t require registration, there’s no mechanism to enforce registration, and the cost of building a new car is a few hundred dollars. The motivation for requiring registration is also to stop people from driving full speed into fast food restaurants is custom built murder buggys. Yeah, you don’t want people to do that but it’s not like it really happens all that often.

Building a 3d printer from a kit is different from building one from scratch. It’s basically screwing parts together and plugging colored wires into matching slots.