WayeeCool [comrade/them]
It’s funny that none of the AI firms in the limelight are making any attempt to actually copy the architecture of biological neutral networks. Analog and neuromophic neural network hardware acceleration chips, ie hardware that mimics how biological brains compute, have both crazy energy efficiency and high performance. The only two firms that have actually been making a serious effort at developing such hardware are Intel and IBM. For both companies neuromophic chips have been r&d projects that have already had over a decade of resources poured into and will probably require at least another decade before producing something commercially viable.
It’s also evidence that firms like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and all the AI startups that are spouting off about working on creating actual AI are full of shit. None of them are working on developing hardware to run real neural networks able to emulate the type of intelligence human brains are capable of, ie dynamic, general, and realtime learning.
Honestly it’s just a modern take on the “bread & circus” concept that goes back to city-states of the ancient world. It’s not unique to the US and is even something socialist governments must account for, but with the US it sure seems like an entire cultural identity has been built around consumption of treats. Just look at what happened in the US when COVID caused mass media entertainment (television, movies, novels) to be delayed indefinitely along with restaurants, bars, and themeparks closing down.
Other than treats citizens of the US often have nothing, living lives that can be quite hollow. Atomization. Freedom where to others they owe nothing and are owed nothing. No community, protestant religion centered around the individual, family is extremely shallow due to being limited to the so-called nuclear family that often abandons relationships when children turn 18, and suburban living where people often don’t even know their immediate neighbors.
It’s basically the same class of ship the US, China, and Russia use as coast guard cutters. I often find it more than a little entertaining how most Navies outside the great powers label as warships what amount to coastal patrol vessels meant for civilian police actions in litoral water. Is something really a blue water Navy when you don’t even have the ships to assemble a Navy strike group (1 cruiser for command & control, 3 to 6 destroyers, and 1 attack submarine)?
I’ll give it a try. I actually enjoyed Paragon before Epic shut it down, so I might enjoy this shooter-moba.
It’s meaningfully different in the US at least because these corporations are some of the most powerful on earth. Musk’s companies are small beans in comparison because market cap is meaningless compared to actual revenue. He is fucking around with corporations that literally overthrow governments, kill disloyal people, and fund private militaries to advance their interests. The kind of corporations that US federal judges rubber-stamp even criminal rulings for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
