=== ANCHOR POEM === ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol-revolutions-and-drones │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled, etc. Put guns on them. Figure it out. Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/623 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled, etc. Put guns on them. Figure it out. Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/2678 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: cursed-but-useful-technology │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ "the goal is to have multiple people piloting different sections of the drone │ ║ swarm. the image recognition technology will adapt and eliminate any hostiles │ ║ within range, while also attempting to place themselves in positions which │ ║ maximize the camera coverage of areas the others can't see. then, the director │ ║ can say "you 5 move east 1/4th of a mile" based on their vision from the │ ║ combined camera output from the drones. │ ║ │ ║ the "fog of war" should not be black, also, but rather it should be the vision │ ║ of the long-range camera style drone up above. if you have multiple, you can │ ║ take their vision and find the angle based on their coordinates and elevation │ ║ (soh-cah-toa) and then you should have another perspective which can fill in │ ║ quite a few blanks. │ ║ │ ║ in fact if you had at least 4 of them you could reliably cover every corner of │ ║ the city. notdownstrets │ ║ │ ║ depending on how the factory situation is going, could be used with infantry │ ║ too, but like... human conflict? in this era? how barbaric. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #3 messages/1530 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── The first humanoid attack drones would have their brains in their bellies and their fists upraised - rapid spin-up actuators, with solid iron blows - a sledgehammer jackhammer So be sure to account for that in your defensive military funding. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════════───┘ --- #4 messages/1451 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── first start to any sort of insurgency or rebel alliance is mobile factories. you gotta be able to make your x-wings in space. similarly, drones being built between wall-less semi trucks assembly line style. with a helipad on top, and networked with servo-motor struts that follow the exact path and momentum of the truck ahead of it, recorded and passed down to the past. what was I saying? oh yes they could exchange drone parts across these barriers and build an entire drone that could be deployed at will. well, so long as the roadsigns hold out (whoops) I think it works better for the Rebel Alliance, united against one foe as a state federation. (downside is then you forget who you're meant to be and you only remember the pack.) well it's probably fine so long as you fight for your patrons, or more ideally, for ideals that everyone can understand beware, Iran in the summer wear your white clothes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════──────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3157 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── @user-570 @user-246 the technology to do this exists already. there is no reason to believe that it must be a "far future" AI system. It would need human oversight, but it'll happen. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/1638 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat │ ║ viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was │ ║ interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward │ ║ the ongoing AI training. │ ║ │ ║ of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind │ ║ that you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new │ ║ technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different │ ║ effects, and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the │ ║ peak of, say, metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a │ ║ contest of producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized │ ║ that type of approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your │ ║ resources for... what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our │ ║ lives, and work toward a common collective cosietal goal. │ ║ │ ║ technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's │ ║ development and hinder it's impa │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #7 image/img-8734 ---
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--- #12 messages/1449 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── The military, I think, should focus on building cheaper versions of the best stuff available, so we can have more of them to dispatch in a fight. Having classes of weaponry that's farther developed behind than the precision machine can be better than throwing away billions of computer parts. Steel and rocket fuel to a long way, and besides its not like we need all that rock (metal) or oil (fuel) anyway. So... It pays to be efficient. Find the best cost/value parameter and minimize cost in human lives. There, long-term best strat. Best strat ever? Plus the citizens would be happier meaning they can make more GDP meaning they can make more weapons to play if they saved in their pockets. And distributed it to others we helped, to allow them do to as they pleased. Or have you forgotten the American way? More mechanics, more technicians, more logisticians, more celebrations. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════──────┘ --- #13 fediverse/1936 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── "Ugh, policing AI agents as they interact with the internet and run our economy for us is soooooo boring. hey I have an idea! Let's automate it!" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/4033 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: war-mentioned-death-blood-guts │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ now that we fight wars without peering into the eyes of our foes, our │ ║ observation equipment has the opportunity to lie to us. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if we just deepfaked ukrainian soldiers onto the targeting │ ║ computers of russian drones │ ║ │ ║ we could fight wars, observe the effect of our machinery, and burn metal, │ ║ plastic, and silicon (because apparently that's the best use for these things │ ║ ???) without harming a living soul │ ║ │ ║ seriously, stop with the gazas │ ║ │ ║ stop with war for the sake of testing equipment that is only designed for war │ ║ │ ║ it is no longer a necessity, now that we have more than enough to share. │ ║ │ ║ and that truly is the bane wielded by socialism - if everyone just... gave │ ║ away anything they had, suddenly there's no more reason to fight. And if │ ║ everyone stopped fighting, they're out of a job. │ ║ │ ║ can we just like... cancel all jobs, and then add them back in piece-by-piece? │ ║ "yes you're essential, doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance drivers, food │ ║ delivery trucks, electricity grid mainta │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/4403 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol-revolutions-and-sedition │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities struggles toward our last gasp. But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves from harm. Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater fight. The world is watching. To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in this remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource acquisition. Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your neighbors if you're not. A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this. Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods. Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ --- #16 messages/1205 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════───────┘ --- #17 fediverse/2804 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol-tech-industry-100-billionaires-per-year │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ yes, they really would be satisfied with a single lifetime's worth of technological progress, from the birth of the microchip to now, as long as they can rule over the ruins of what once were our utopian aspirations. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/5119 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass solarpunk houses. also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if there's no code being run... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ --- #19 messages/1370 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────── If we wage war without AI, then we humans proclaim we don't need the atom bomb to settle our differences. We are like men, strong, honorable, fair. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════──────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2603 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ you should not be afraid of satellites. be afraid of drones, so far off in the distance that any visible section of sky is potentially suspect. though, the farther away it is, the more difficult it is to develop sensors and cameras that can detect that far. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #21 messages/1527 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── Weapons should exist to contest cosmic threats (tanks to a civilian) than cosmic threats (god to an ant) or mundane threats (your brotherhood of farms). This is why citizen owned anti-tank rifles should be kept in hiding, but still shown at parades so we know how many there are, but not where they are. [we keep lots of them in grocery stores] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════════───┘ --- #22 fediverse/4879 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things │ ║ │ ║ like... writing their names down at the door │ ║ │ ║ just because │ ║ │ ║ just for fun │ ║ │ ║ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the │ ║ bench" │ ║ │ ║ or just... remember your friends │ ║ │ ║ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends │ ║ │ ║ then they gotta start organizing │ ║ │ ║ and organization implies trust │ ║ │ ║ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use │ ║ language analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad? │ ║ │ ║ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure │ ║ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a │ ║ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a │ ║ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel. │ ║ │ ║ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The │ ║ Witches (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york) │ ║ │ ║ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz? │ ║ │ ║ oh, │ ║ you know, │ ║ just for all of the lastbit │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #23 fediverse/298 --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol-also-religion-climate-change-nanobots │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics built in and redefined according to experience) nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just big enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a collection of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and data can be viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow. through their endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to the accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident expect the worst. but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #24 fediverse/985 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: cursed-scary-pol-doomer-misinformation │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ @user-713 @user-714 │ ║ │ ║ the american military is going to be too busy fighting it's far right that it │ ║ won't be able to meaningfully contribute to ww3 │ ║ │ ║ both sides are slavers. we just don't see it. │ ║ │ ║ I don't anticipate war taking place on a battlefield, that setting is │ ║ forevermore dedicated to video games and kaiju. │ ║ │ ║ rather, a silent war where everyone just goes around killing their opposition. │ ║ │ ║ for once, the citizens can't help but be armed. │ ║ │ ║ and in the dark of night, for every time we let plight from our sight, another │ ║ of us is harmed. │ ║ │ ║ I don't know many people who've died. but maybe they're just working through a │ ║ different part of the social network. It's not like any of their technology │ ║ needs to perform as it's been advertised? well, open source does, but open │ ║ source means insecure (as long as you don't get caught, then you need to │ ║ adjust) │ ║ │ ║ of course, sometimes corporate software... kinda sucks. so it's not like │ ║ theyre very configurable away from what capital wanted. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #25 messages/524 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #26 fediverse/4681 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-AI-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what they need to do in order to maintain control and power. they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now it's our problem to deal with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 fediverse/4006 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for │ ║ them to make meta decisions about your life. │ ║ │ ║ notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of │ ║ mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a │ ║ devious streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get │ ║ you to believe whatever it is that *they* want you to believe │ ║ │ ║ "who's they" │ ║ │ ║ doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could │ ║ be they. │ ║ │ ║ "uh-huh that's nice dear" │ ║ │ ║ sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure │ ║ out how to understand it. We make it too complicated. │ ║ │ ║ they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But │ ║ we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and │ ║ data filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like │ ║ the different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that │ ║ radiates heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #28 fediverse/5764 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ what if we developed volunteer brigades who went overseas and got combat │ ║ experience fighting against evil │ ║ │ ║ what if we paid for their houses while they were gone and watered their plants │ ║ and fed their children and supplied their clothing and utilized our VAST │ ║ logistic networks to [project power far afield? ha good luck] okay I see your │ ║ point the USA had the greatest logistic network in the world and it smashed │ ║ one of the greatest armies in the world in like, 2 days with essentially zero │ ║ casualties and yet years and years later it still lost the world. │ ║ │ ║ turns out warfare isn't really about blowing things up with massive pieces of │ ║ machinery. │ ║ │ ║ "hearts and minds" she says, "channel thine divine" she is said, "didn't you │ ║ used to be an atheist before you moved out of home" said her mom probably idk │ ║ she doesn't talk to her much anymore which is so sad for both of them they │ ║ really should just talk but they're on opposite sides of the country because │ ║ of stupid reasons and so she's lonely and longs for home so she sleep │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ --- #29 fediverse/119 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics, alien egg sacks │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ okay how about this: what if people, living in a democracy, volunteered │ ║ themselves to be part of a socio-economic testing group. essentially a │ ║ miniature economy and social structure. A standard set of rules and │ ║ regulations would facilitate any interactions necessary for trade and civilian │ ║ free movement - POSIX for societies. If people want to try out fully automated │ ║ luxury space communism then they should totally have the opportunity to do │ ║ that. Every mis-step is a path away from that future, but like, "step" as in │ ║ like a volatile gray good that's constantly exploding itself onto things. Or │ ║ aliens, on an asteroid, waiting for a ship to land on them or a planet to get │ ║ in their way. I don't want to be an alien egg sack, so clearly we should be │ ║ able to vote in our own words and have chatGPT decide which ballot boxes to │ ║ fill for us. And it's not like those ballot boxes have to change every year, │ ║ unless people think of new ones to add. Kinda scary tbh. Kinda thrilling too, │ ║ to be the future │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #30 fediverse/3906 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: future-politics │ └──────────────────────┘ dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do? Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts. That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't ask the AI, ask a randomized expert! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #31 fediverse/2759 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: is-that-rude??-wha │ └────────────────────────────┘ also, that's not the best way to organize. you'll spend too much focus-time on the experts. better to be primarily a research division, with production allocated for engineering *practice*, not profitability. we should be building factories underground, out of the way of our species and biological allies. [thus, creates the modern megadungeon, a vast inter-connected catacombs that always leads you toward the surface. if you know where you're going, you can cross to places hitherto unawares. like, different earths, all doing their own stories. but that's for another time, no more witchcraft for tonight! I got video games to play [Supreme Commander with the Forged Alliance Forever mod] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #32 fediverse/5218 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: historical-weapons-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"*the guy who was ahead of his time for rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition* ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #33 messages/1163 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── why are we wasting our skyscrapers on offices? we have those at home! we could do so much more with our open floor plans. there could be ports on the side for drones to enter and leave. suddenly, factory forest trees. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══────────┘