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The last time China bombed a foreign country was nearly 50 years ago.

A very inconvenient truth for the China hawks.

nerfbatplzon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Can you tell me when the last time China used AI to bomb a school was?

Hell can you tell me when the last time China bombed a school was even without AI?

The last time China bombed anyone was in 1979.

nerfbatplzon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The real threat isn't the drones, it's the ability to generate a target bank. Historically militaries that are not just carpet bombing have been bottlenecked by target selection, humans can only review and authorize so many strikes. Now the AI will select the targets and the bottleneck moves to how many bombs you can build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...

nerfbatplzon Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Dario blinked when he was asked to do it and Sam Altman was in Hegseth's DMs promising all the AI child killing the US government can order up within minutes. No one meaningful will quit over this, that's why all of the biggest US tech companies can march in pride parades and provide compute to the perpetrators of the genocide in Gaza at the same time.

nerfbatplzon Open source AI must win

China unironically saved humanity. I'm no fan of the CCP but if they hadn't organized an effort to compete with the US no one else would have done it and we'd be begging our AI overlords for tokens and praying we don't get caught conducting wrongthink.

Go ask Claude to criticize Anthropic and see how long your account stays active.

nerfbatplzon Open source AI must win

If there was a way to guarantee that every human would have equal access to external intelligence then it would be hard to argue against it but everyone knows that the US oligopoly will do everything they can to ensure that no one else has the keys to the kingdom.

Just listen to what the SV ownership class says out loud. They openly discuss how China cannot "win the AI arms race" and how China's development is existential. Existential to who? It's impossible to fully subjugate people with agency.

nerfbatplzon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

Israel has never defined its own borders. This is easily googleable. There are borders that are well understood by the international community but it is a fact that the state of Israel itself has never defined it's own borders.

nerfbatplzon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

Oman doesn't seem to care, Qatar capitulated quickly, the UAE is a walking corpse, Kuwait is as well until they kick the 5th fleet out, Iraq is already majority Shia, Saudi Arabia doesn't seem to care much.

nerfbatplzon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

The rumor is that this hornet's nest got kicked because Netanyahu called Trump to complain about a classified cabinet meeting that the Israelis had not been briefed on.

nerfbatplzon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

Israel has never published their official borders. Even Somaliland has declared their borders but the "only democracy in the middle east" has never done so in it's entire history.

nerfbatplzon Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

Incorrect, plenty of countries have had their ships transit the Strait including China, Philippines and Pakistan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79jqx1xdy9o

nerfbatplzon Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

American destroyers and aircraft carriers have been chased away from the Strait multiple times now.

Hilariously the USS George HW Bush had to go the long way around Africa rather than risk transiting the Bab El Mandeb after the Houthis defeated the US Navy last year.

nerfbatplzon Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

Ironically the US has never ratified UNCLOS. The American professed interest in maintaining right of passage does not appear to require them to be held to the same standards.

Also the Strait of Hormuz is an international strait not international waters. The entire strait lies within Iranian and Omani waters. Frankly it's a bit absurd to complain that your ships can't transit a country's waters while you bomb them.

nerfbatplzon F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Subs in WW2 rescued survivors all the time until the US bombed a rescue operation and ended the gentleman's agreement.

https://www.beachesofnormandy.com/didyouknow/Did_you_know_wh...

There was zero threat to that American submarine, they fired on an unarmed ship that the US Navy had just held ceremonial activities with literally days prior. Absolutely disgusting behaviour but we can't expect anything less from the Americans unfortunately.

nerfbatplzon F-15E jet shot down over Iran

They tried restraint and proportionality for decades and where did that get them? 47 years of non-stop aggression, espionage, sanctions and the mass deaths of Iranian civilians.

nerfbatplzon F-15E jet shot down over Iran

UAE wants that because their leaders are highly Israel aligned. Saudi Arabia is a lot more pragmatic, they take their role as the "leader" of the Islamic world pretty seriously.

nerfbatplzon F-15E jet shot down over Iran

I think this was the nail in the coffin. Not only has the US exsanguinated their military capability at the behest of Israel, everyone with half a brain watched closely as they took AD out of the gulf states and moved them into Israel. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are not morons, they will see the writing on the wall and they will move to make diplomatic peace with their neighbours (China) now that the US has keeled over with self-inflicted wounds.

It doesn't really matter what happens internally in the US now, everyone realizes that every four years the world will roll the dice.

nerfbatplzon Say No to Palantir in Europe

Palantir is part of the IDF's kill chain. In Gaza that means supporting the automated targeting systems that choose targets with little to no human oversight, and then the automated tracking systems that follow targets until they are at home with their families so that the entire family can be killed at once.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

>Lavender and systems like Where’s Daddy? were thus combined with deadly effect, killing entire families, sources said. By adding a name from the Lavender-generated lists to the Where’s Daddy? home tracking system, A. explained, the marked person would be placed under ongoing surveillance, and could be attacked as soon as they set foot in their home, collapsing the house on everyone inside.

>“Let’s say you calculate [that there is one] Hamas [operative] plus 10 [civilians in the house],” A. said. “Usually, these 10 will be women and children. So absurdly, it turns out that most of the people you killed were women and children.”

nerfbatplzon Missile defense is NP-complete

To be clear, Trump announced that the US had destroyed Iran's air defenses, missiles and missile launch capabilities. Trump also said that the US enjoyed air supremacy over Iran and were flying when and where they wished.

Maybe one of these days we'll see a B-52 take off with JDAMs and not JASSMs but probably not, kind of scary to try and drop gravity bombs on a country that your stealth fighters can't fly over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohttYlvFvU

nerfbatplzon Missile defense is NP-complete

Technically Iran fires SRBMs and MRBMs not ICBMs. They intentionally gimp their missiles to avoid advertising ICBM range as a way of placating Europe.

nerfbatplzon Missile defense is NP-complete

The Iranians just hit an F35 with a proverbial box of scraps they put together in a cave. The Chinese military must have experienced collective euphoria when they saw that.

nerfbatplzon Missile defense is NP-complete

There's videos from Israel showing Iranian missiles performing AD evading maneuvers that western media was saying was impossible a few months ago.

nerfbatplzon I resigned from OpenAI

The last time China bombed a foreign country was 1979, 47 years ago. Has the US gone even 47 days in the last 80 years without bombing another country?

nerfbatplzon NameCheap revokes a domain dedicated to hosting footage from Gaza

https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

It’s especially egregious that they didn’t give a chance for the domain to be transferred, they terminated the domain without due notice.

This website had been cited by journalists, academics and even at the International Court of Justice.

nerfbatplzon How to Preserve Physical Photos

If you have a DSLR or mirrorless camera scanning the negatives with it and then batch processing them into positives is probably the fastest method.

nerfbatplzon Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

I propose we change the term enshitification to engoogleification in regards to the internet.

nerfbatplzon 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

Haaretz reports that the ground troops in Gaza are acting on their own and in a state of anarchy.

https://archive.is/2024.04.02-205352/https://www.haaretz.com...

nerfbatplzon 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

Already deleted, that was quick.

If we can’t trust AI to drive a car, how the hell can we trust it to pick who lives and who dies?

nerfbatplzon The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem

Yeah the Israeli left has come to accept that the final solution is to push the Gazans into Sinai as exemplified by Benny Morris' opinion that he has stated repeatedly since October 7th.

nerfbatplzon The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem

> Hamas has, for a very long time, refused to recognize that Israel has any right to exist anywhere in former Mandatory Palestine.

Why is this piece of misinformation so pervasive?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/hamas-new-char...