MrPiss

That said, the US government is not interested in seeing this conflict between Israel and Iran escalate.

It's supposed to be a policy of controlled chaos in the middle east, and an actual direct war between Israel and Iran probably isn't what they had in mind. I don't really know where the US wants to go from here, but I doubt direct military intervention from the US could last too long before they get a black eye.

On another note, this whole thing is really making it feel like Iran could have ended all this a long time ago by responding this way the first time around.

Important to remember that this is Operation True Promise 3. We are in a much different position from the previous two because Israel has had a pretty good winning streak of weakening the axis of resistance. During previous rounds of Israeli violence Hezbollah was a real threat and Syria was an area the resistance could operate in on Israel's border. Israel has been getting what they wanted and their hubris (and the material conditions) brought them here to where they thought they could get away with direct attacks and escalate to this point.

A true message to rally the people.

Short term it's probably going to be like how Israel uses it. Basically, set it up to do some data analytics and then say "the robot told us to murder those children because they were Hamas terrorists". Offloading some of the responsibility for the genocide to the machines. Sort of reminds me of how tech bros keep making racist big data algorithms because all the training data for crime is racist and just perpetuates the status quo.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

Medium term it's an expansion of the surveillance state and maybe some semi autonomous systems with human intervention. Probably some new wonder weapons as well. A lot of grifting will happen so it'll be hard to know what really works until we learn how nice it burns in a riot.

Also, relatedly, I read this website that I saw on reddit the other day and it's so laughable how little these people understand how their own tech works and how the real economy works.

https://ai-2027.com/

Structurally the article is the tech industry asking for investment and state backing but it's very laughable when you question what is written. They don't understand how long it take to make the basic infrastructure of their own industry. They are just reflexively racist towards the chinese at every chance they get. They also think the chat bots can generate more data to train the next chat bots until it becomes self aware. It would really just continuously eat it's own shit until it becomes too unreliable.

I don't see it happening anytime soon. We are several tech advances away from a real artificial general intelligence.

Right now the actual existing technology is a very advanced chat bot that can generally summarize and regurgitate information that is put into it, competent image identification, and a few other smaller things. They all generally rely on being given in a lot of information to plagiarize from. In the future these would be components of the bigger scarier AIs but they are not at that point or close to that point. (AGI is totally just five years away so invest now or be left behind)

The killer robots and drones will always require industrial production and there would need to be a big push for industrial expansion to fully roll them out, unless they're going to be luxury weapons for the larger police forces and special operations in the military. I doubt the US would have the commitment to make mass produced cheap drones when companies can make overpriced and overengineered crap for the cops and military. We likely will see more drones in the future but nothing as cheap and reliable as what Russia had started to use in the SMO.

In 2050 things might be there but by then the Fourth Reich will hopefully have fallen out at least be contained.

What if we're all just as annoying as possible to the company auctioning it until they give it to us?

Also, we all know someone's handler is just going to hand over a credit card so that they can buy the site. The question is, who actually gets it? It'll probably be some annoying radlib performative bs about tankies that was well worth the $69,420 that was spent on it.

This is pathetic. These free speech warriors are afraid of some comments with like 6 upvotes on one thread. This is literally one of the most libbed up communities on reddit and some non-bot users want to let off some steam and the entire community gets nuked.

Has this asshole never had a job before? Like tech companies are lenient in a lot of ways but they're still jobs.

I see major political change of any kind as 5 years away at minimum. No organization inside or outside of government really wants major change. At most they want to twist a few nobs and dials on the machines to increase the pain at a faster or slower rate.

Americans are pretty far from the level of suffering that will produce violent revolutionary conditions. We barely have any solid reform movements since everything gets coopted by either political party and defanged. There are no independent centers of power and many people are too alienated or disconnected to create a movement.

I'd like to think something has to happen soon with how the financiers are sucking the life out of the country's and world's economy but all of the carefully crafted systems of control seem ascendant. Even with both political parties being filled with incompetent losers they can still bumble their way through maintaining the system.

This is a country where cops can kill people in broad daylight and get away with it when it's on video. The American psyche has to change but I feel like it will only get worse with the conditions.

At will employment in the US is crazy. We're approaching the point of swearing literal fealty to our corporate overlords.

Important to remember that there is already a vaccine for h5n1. It would need to be updated if it mutates to a point where human to human infections are consistent. It should be faster to get something out than it took for covid.

I obviously have no idea what it would look like if it does mutate to human to human transmission but I'm not an omega doomer about it. We cant predict when or even if a process like evolution will produce a certain result. The US and other countries will obviously let it rip so stay safe if it does.