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Should be a wild four years.

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The computer science mathematics for neural networks and machine learning that makes up AI was developed in the 1950's.
From 1949 to 1952, the USAF and the unit that would eventually become ARPA then DARPA worked with MIT to begin developing things like servomechanisms and feedback sensors for NC machining. It wasn’t even CNC yet because the first C stands for computer, and it first used paper punch tape and then magnetic tape to give instructions, rather than anything like a digitally stored program

It was a multi year feat of engineering to get plotted X/Y coordinates to interpolate curvatures instead of just running jagged segments.

Whatever people may claim was the beginning of AI was almost certainly hypothetical discussions in the 1950s.
 
before openAI, altman ran a crypto scam lol
how the fuck investor retards came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to throw infinity money at this guy is something i will never understand
There is something extremely shady about Altman. They forced him out of OpenAI once for unethical behavior before Microsoft bullied the board into reinstating him.
 
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Any broat experts give us a rough idea how long it would take the Ford to get there? something measured in days or weeks? just not sure how fast modern ships can move around the world when they MEAN to

also 2 aircraft carriers, little risky Trump, hope you dont have have any more female/DEI Captians
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Fucking navy... YOUR NUMBER 1 JOB IS DONT CRASH THE BROAT AND IF YOU DO CRASH THE BROAT, DONT CRASH IT INTO ANOTHER BROAT!
 
I don't know how well they work, but there are ISA floppy drive simulators that use USB sticks (L).
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That wont really help for equipment like airplanes, embroidery machines, CNC's, PBX's,. etc.
There is a more plug and play option called the GOTEK that replaces the floppy drive itself and plugs in to the factory ribbon cable. https://www.gotekemulator.com/
But I don't think anyone is going to sign off on putting something like that in a jetliner or weapons system.
 
Once more for everyone in the back:

China leased an Airbus A320 and made it disappear back in 2006. Presumably they took it apart for their vaunted reverse engineering.

This project is the Comac C919. It has been beset by constant drama and failure for twenty years. Nobody wants to buy any of them and their deliveries would be 0 except they legislatively forced domestic airlines to buy some, and at that they’ve made and delivered 28 total, again only to domestic airlines, since they completed the first one in 2024. So they have averaged 14 per year.

Boeing delivered 600 aircraft in 2025.

Also the c919 depends on engines and avionics sold to China from America. China basically can’t make aircraft engines of any kind. They’ve been buying them from Russia for their fighter programs
Chang Kai-Shek should have won.
 
Always fundamentally disagreed with that PERSONALLY but I respect where your coming from

I think the 6 foot 200 pound upright gorillas with precision hand eye coordination, advanced social structures, and mastery of atomics makes us one Gods most terrifying and amazing creations to all who are not made in his own image

Besides it puts us in a situation where blind luck and cowardice are our only defenses. If such a Hoxbox does exist lets have them come to us on OUR terms not theirs. Id truly like to see the species that can take a united humanity on its best day.

*the aliens discussing the ongoing invasion"*
"Sir, the landing zone is taking higher than expected casualty's,"
"This makes no sense we selected one of the most peaceful and idolic areas of their planet from our scans, your telling that sparsely populated mountain range is fronting an actual defense?"
"the reports we are getting back make it sound like we landed inside an active military compound"
"Get me a local map RIGHT NOW, where is our landing force Lieutenant?"
"Umm its some place they call Appalachia sir, but all the info still appears correct, its indeed a sparsely populated idolic countryside full of civilians, they must have tricked us somehow!"
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In the year 1800 humanity which had spread across the world had wooden sailing ships, horse drawn carriages, experimentation with crude hot air balloons, increasingly complex water powered machinery, and the biggest weapons we could produce were black powder cannons. A century later we would have underwent the industrial revolution which steam powered machinery utterly changed society as a whole, experimentation with electricity beginning to yield fruit in the form of practical uses, we could traverse a continent in a week by steam powered train or cross the Atlantic in a week by steam ship. Ironclad Battleships boasting massive new turrets and soldiers used fully automatic maxim machine guns. A few inventors are screwing around in a barn in kittyhawk to create a heavier than air flying machine and petroleum powered horseless carriages are being produced.

Twenty years later these innovations would be used in a planet wide war to horrifying effect along with the first weapons of mass destruction, poison gas, war planes, and a long list of other minor terrors, after this would see twenty years a peace and development followed by a second globe spanning war with even more new technologies than the first used, a war that ended in the use of atomic weaponry. Other weapons invented but not used included sarin nerve gas which functionally terminates life when exposed and development of biological weaponry which are far far nightmarish than anything nature created.

I need not explain the never ending development and innovation after that second world war, namely in weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological, and chemical). The point of me saying this is how far humanity has progressed in mere centuries, how old is civilization (or agriculture for that matter). How advanced would humanity be 500 years from now. Apply all of this to aliens who likely wouldn't waste their time landing troops and occupying the planet, instead deciding to bombard the planet from orbit, or sterilize it with nerve gas.

We have no way of telling what an alien would think or want, for all we know they could be extermination on sight to ensure the other species doesn't do it first. Think of what humanity does to each other on the norm.

Truthfully the human covenant war from Halo is a more realistic way it would play out. A species who had more time to develop better technologies (to be specific the covies got lucky) would mop the floor with a race who has less time to develop. Ground battles would be borderline pointless since it would be easier to bombard the planet held by the pukes below till it is nothing but glass. We should not be making any effort to intentionally contact alien life.
 
The computer science mathematics for neural networks and machine learning that makes up AI was developed in the 1950's.
It's been in "open source" public use in musical composition since, as far as I know, 1958.

Hilariously, current iterations of "AI" can't convincingly imitate the output of the earliest examples of it. If you tell an LLM-based music-bot to use a specific old algorithm, it won't do it—and might lie and say it did.

(Won't PL too hard about this, but trust me bro.)
 
Truthfully the human covenant war from Halo is a more realistic way it would play out. A species who had more time to develop better technologies (to be specific the covies got lucky) would mop the floor with a race who has less time to develop. Ground battles would be borderline pointless since it would be easier to bombard the planet held by the pukes below till it is nothing but glass. We should not be making any effort to intentionally contact alien life.
The US brass thought the same thing during vietnam.

Aliens reaction when their plasma shields designed to stop high powered lazers does nothing against a molotov cocktail.
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"They've captured our ships. They roam free now. Forgive us." - Last message alien homeworld receives from their expedition fleet.
 
The US brass thought the same thing during vietnam.

Aliens reaction when their plasma shields designed to stop high powered lazers does nothing against a molotov cocktail.
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"They've captured our ships. They roam free now. Forgive us." - Last message alien homeworld receives from their expedition fleet.
You don't seem to understand the scale I am speaking of. You are thinking of the standard human conflict of invading, occupying, and pacifying the resisting locals. I am talking about Alien life not screwing around and going directly to genocide. The equivalent of what I am saying is if the US sprayed VX gas across Vietnam to completely exterminate the population, In other words a crime beyond measure. An alien encountering another sentient species may not have the same ethical restrictions as humans.
Chang Kai-Shek should have won.
You are assuming what China is now at their core is at all different from what they have always been, authoritarian insects. If you ask me they likely would be behaving the same way if the KMT won on the mainland.
 
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See this guy? his name is Leon Black and he the most recent person who has damning info tying him to awful crimes in relation to jeffery Epstein

Guess what he wants to do?

Photograph your kids

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Rabbit hole just keeps going deeper
So let me get the basics of this particular tizzy straight. Lifetouch, a photography company, is owned by Shutterfly, a producer of photographic products (ie physical prints), which is then owned by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm. Apollo Global Management has stake in 133 companies. All I'm seeing as a connection is that people at the PE level were either confirmed or implicated sex pests. If that's the level of scrutiny needed for this, I'm afraid just about every PE firm would probably fail and every company that has it's ownership partially or fully terminate at a PE firm is then suspect. That's a bit of a reach. Is there actually anything there?
 
Imagine if we became a spacefaring race. And by "we," I literally mean white people. The only way this could be possible is if we consciously left niggers behind, and the only way we could do this is to have a social order where we are allowed to do things that make women feel sad. What would happen if we came across an intelligent, yet not spacefaring species? Most likely, we would try to make contact to whichever race on their planet was most advanced, while dropping orbital bombardments on the savage tribes who we knew would set them back centuries if a political faction in their world ever comes up with the idea of Section 8 Housing.
 
Imagine if we became a spacefaring race. And by "we," I literally mean white people. The only way this could be possible is if we consciously left niggers behind, and the only way we could do this is to have a social order where we are allowed to do things that make women feel sad. What would happen if we came across an intelligent, yet not spacefaring species? Most likely, we would try to make contact to whichever race on their planet was most advanced, while dropping orbital bombardments on the savage tribes who we knew would set them back centuries if a political faction in their world ever comes up with the idea of Section 8 Housing.
b-but there's a nigger on the moon
 
Imagine if we became a spacefaring race. And by "we," I literally mean white people. The only way this could be possible is if we consciously left niggers behind, and the only way we could do this is to have a social order where we are allowed to do things that make women feel sad. What would happen if we came across an intelligent, yet not spacefaring species? Most likely, we would try to make contact to whichever race on their planet was most advanced, while dropping orbital bombardments on the savage tribes who we knew would set them back centuries if a political faction in their world ever comes up with the idea of Section 8 Housing.
I hope there are Space Latinas though IMG_9449.jpeg
 
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