CS_McVey

Hammer, nail.

Give me the damn VC money; I have an idea for a weapon. I wouldn't waste any of it on parties or trying to give ChatGPT control of the kill chain. Oh right, you have to be in the club.

Of course they realize, making human fighting ability obsolete also makes revolution impossible. Thiel and other Yarvin-admirers surely do. Perhaps in the future the only way to be free will be to simply be too worthless to be paid any attention.

Congrats! May your birthday be >2 std. dev. happier than a typical day.

I feel like this eagerness to throw away lives is a post-USSR hangover, and also that it has played a role in popular will to do military service in this war. 2 years ago large numbers of foreigners were enlisting with the UAF. Now their own young men are fleeing.

Yeah, good point. That'd be the low-hanging fruit.

The nuance here is that liability if someone is sickened by spoiled food makes it hard for them to do this; it used to be more common. Some sort of "eat these aging apples at your own risk" law, and all that that entails, would have to be part of the new practice.

Annual, or total over 5 years? I think you mean total over 5 years. They probably aren't going to make that but one wonders.

A protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy Drawing inspiration from the tardigrade, researchers developed a new strategy that may protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy.

An exception might be this potential solution to the problem of space's high ambient ionizing radiation, from biology. This one I admit got me really excited. Think what you could do with crewed spaceflight with radiation-resistant astronauts.

Staged combustion cycle - Wikipedia

This article seems to suggest staged combustion isn't entirely new. Now I agree that there is positive progress, but it feels more incremental than the aerospace progress of the early to mid 20th century when "space science fiction" really developed.

We're not an Vienna or Tokyo levels of pro-housing policy yet but we're moving in that direction. Let's not let up!

There hasn't been enough qualitative change in space technology (reusable 1st stages on the Falcon 9, but the Shuttle boosters already soft-of did that.) Too few human astronaut missions. Everything is computers and robots. How can one go on believing in a space-heavy future?

Pure genius. I was amazed.

The author of the piece screen-shotted below is a U.S. army officer.

I would contend that an officer planning for a 'post-liberal' military has betrayed their oath to "support and defend the Constitution," perjuring themselves before God and men and is as a result, unfit to serve.

I just recently found your Starflight art on your website-- that takes me back; that game's a classic and the sequel was actually my first experience of gaming. Awesome stuff. Would you ever consider porting that collection to your Patreon as well?

War will never not need soldiers.

Also: Mr. Darcy's Incredibly Well Thought Out Master Plan for Revenge. He gets Mr. Wickham a commission in the army as a "favor" in exchange for his silence about Lydia, which seems like "the bad guy winning" but what Jane Austen doesn't tell us is this whole story is set during the Napoleonic Wars!

In better times the US Navy would have rushed in with aid supplies, responders, medical facilities, fresh water production, aerial logistics, and tried to save every life. We were good at that kind of thing. You know nothing like that is going to happen under these devils in human guise.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

Of every list of "cardinal vices" or "deadly sins" in Latin Christian history, whether 5 or 7, the only one that always makes the list is PRIDE. Sometimes twice, as both vanity and vainglory! If people think sin only means something sexual, they're letting their guard down and will become monsters.

Well, certainly the whole developed world is embracing the hard right or far right, whether that evolves into authoritarianism (Hungary, USA, nearly S. Korea) or does not (Italy, Czechia so far). Even places that still have strong industrial sectors (Poland) or minimal immigration (Japan.)

Such that, unless the economic stress and narrowing of the opportunity space since the "China shock" and the related demographic decline of rich and many middle-income nations could be reversed, people will continue to flock to bad guys, no matter the media landscape?

I understand your point, but I am still uncertain. If an unfettered Rupert Murdoch will reliably result in a monstrous dictator, but the only reason not to limit commercial freedom of expression is that such a dictator once in power would abuse it...

And there is no way of influencing whether this "truly caring about" will or will not happen? No way to put up a guardrail against demagogic armageddon? Or that free speech is so sacred that we have an obligation to remain always one random whim away from armageddon as a deliberate choice?

Very well, blame the loss of the FD at all, then. It seems in this moment like real news just has zero ability to compete for eyeball time with propaganda, and if removing a rule against propaganda isn't really a thing that happened/a possible explanation... did people just change somehow?

Okay, I want to. Please be generous with a poor engineer trying to see the how and why of the humanities clearly even as we reap the whirlwind of their decline, and recommend any books?

Did people just used to be different? Did markets used to express preference for real news? How did we fall so far so fast? I mean, I accept I was wrong to blame the FD so much, but damnit, something changed.

I accept your correction, but: how, then, did a better media environment once have the ability to exist?

I have been reading 19c newspapers filled with anti-Chinese-immigration bile; I know. But, if a rich media mogul has an incentive to "puff" conservatism and none to puff the common good, how did anything other than Rupert Murdoch Hell ever exist even for a while?

Evidence of conditioned behavior in amoebae - Nature Communications Associative memory is the main type of learning by which complex organisms respond to certain environmental stimuli. Here, De la Fuente et al. describe a motility pattern consistent with associative c...

Brains feature feedback loops; we don't know how to make a training algorithm that trains up a feedback-filled nonlinear neural network efficiently. How does life do it? Don't know yet. Maybe individual cells are smarter than we think and "know" how to form networks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...