CanadaPlus

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CanadaPlus, (edited )

Does anyone really know what a guitar is, completely? Like, I don’t know how they’re made, in detail, or what makes them sound good. I know saws and wide-bandwidth harmonics are respectively involved, but ChatGPT does too.

When it comes to AI, bold philosophical claims about knowledge stated as fact are kind of a pet peeve of mine.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, when Google starts trying to manipulate the meaning of results in it’s favour, instead of just traffic, things will be at a whole other level of scary.

CanadaPlus,

Dude, I could implement a Transformer from memory. I know what I’m talking about.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

No man, what you’re saying is fundamentally philosophical. You didn’t say anything about the Chinese room or epistemology, but those are the things you’re implicitly talking about.

You might as well say humans are fancy predictive muscle movement. Sight, sound and touch come in, movement comes out, tuned by natural selection. You’d have about as much of a scientific leg to stand on. I mean, it’s not wrong, but it is one opinion on the nature of knowledge and consciousness among many.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, that’s spicier wording than I’d prefer, but there is a sense they’d never apply these high measures of understanding to another biological creature.

I wouldn’t mind considering the viewpoint, on it’s own, but they put it like it’s an empirical fact rather than a (very controversial) interpretation.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

1% success rate * 5,580

Still more nukes than I want to deal with today. Nobody off of Lemmy/Reddit seriously suggests this.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Can’t get nuked if it’s a hypothetical and you’re on a keyboard!

You know, somebody in Ukraine is bound to be taking volunteers if you’re all so committed to taking down Putin. (Not you OP)

CanadaPlus,

It’s turns out to be a soft launch of a real policy fairly often.

CanadaPlus,

Hah! Is that how it works?

Buddhism solved, take your robes home guys. /s

CanadaPlus,

Oh shit, really? Well, it does portray the Lama negatively.

CanadaPlus,

Gripens?

CanadaPlus, (edited )

“Terrorists” itself is a bit of a sneaky choice of words, because it’s very vague but sounds very bad.

If they had to talk about deterrence, proportionality and the actual demands and interests of the various factions involved it wouldn’t sound so good for them anymore. Instead, it’s them vs. “terrorists”, being against them is being for “terrorists”, and any attempt to argue with that is doomed to scuttle in the semantic molasses of WTF it even means.

You can still not like Hamas for being brutal theocrats that don’t care about human rights.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Yeah. Nothing lasts all that long when put next to 400,000 degree plasma. The bigger risk is just know-how that the Chinese could take advantage of, either by employing former staff or copying what they find.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

You don’t want to leave anything copyable in the wreckage either, though.

CanadaPlus,

It could be, that would certainly be safer. I don’t think that sounds easier to set up than an explosive charge, though.

If it’s not based on physical destruction, I’d guess it’s some variant of a killer poke (so the thing is set to burn itself out or actuate parts into damaging configurations), combined with a thorough wipe of all software.

CanadaPlus,

In this specific case, a spook from the US government would be in the room with them when they discussed it, so procurement isn’t a problem. Safety would be a real concern, though, you’re right.

CanadaPlus,

Depends on what they do next, right? Technically they still haven’t, but that’s a bit of a minor detail since we all know guys like Smotrich want Palestine and/or Palesinians gone, and they’re doing things that would eventually lead to that outcome if continued.

CanadaPlus,

Technically is doing a lot of work here, that was the point.

That being said, requirement for success varies by crime (murder charges are only used if it works), and success usually has to be reasonably forseeable in the cases where it isn’t. Genocide would definitely be in the latter category, and as it is it will be very hard for ZA’s lawyers to prove to the ICJ that Israel has attempted to kill all Palestinians in Gaza, given that only a fraction are actually dead, and Israel could do it very easily if they committed to it.

IANAL

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Yeah, attempted murder is a different charge. That was, again, the point.

Technically is doing a lot of work here, that was the point.

^ You’re responding to something other than what I said, so I’ll just repost this.

The UN has written a lot about genocide, at various different levels with different levels of authority. Not all of it matches, and the only thing that’s definitely included is trying to remove a group one of the 5 ways listed.

At any rate the ICJ just today ordered Israel to halt it’s offensive; allow official access for UN war crimes investigators; and let in all of the aid it’s holding at the borders. Netanyahu immediately refused all three orders.

Yep, although that wasn’t a ruling on the charge of genocide itself.

CanadaPlus,

Lawyers, judges, fact checkers. I’m not the first two, but I like to play at the third.

If you’re going by the Geneva convention and not something from the Lemkin school of thought, it’s easier to talk about. There’s an effort to create conditions of life which will kill Palestinians, and limited success, but calculated to destroy in whole or part is the sticky bit, since the body count is still low compared to the population. I don’t know, it’s like a drunk that beat someone severely. Was it a poor attempt to kill, or just a successful attempt to maim? The standard of proof required is usually beyond reasonable doubt.

If you were to put using starvation as a weapon or collective punishment to them, there wouldn’t be much doubt, but those are (slightly) lesser charges. Just like you could indict the drunk for aggravated assault or similar fairly plausibly.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

It depends on what they study. I know of some that come for agriculture-related degrees which are just worthless in a totally different climate. “Canada educated” comes with a lot of prestige back home, though, and they have the money, so they come anyway.

CanadaPlus,

Actually, the ones the government has cracked down on most are business degrees. They’re the cheapest to deliver so they’ve been used as an (often needed) cash cow by educational institutions. That’s probably more useful than learning the frost tolerance of a crop you don’t even grow at home, or treatment of temperate pests, but it’s not engineering.

CanadaPlus,

Yep. That’s the situation here I think.

This is the first anti-immigrant policy of any kind Canada’s put in place for a long time, and people are rightfully worried because of that. The thing is, we just have an absolutely insane housing shortage, and so the government has to be seen shoring up immigration somehow, or it will be vulnerable in the upcoming election.

CanadaPlus,

That’s fair. Thanks for the intelligent conversation.

CanadaPlus,

Thank you! That does look like a great fit.

So that’s just solar, then? Long term, it does seem like the one that’s the biggest deal, but right now there’s also a lot of wind and hydro in the mix, so that’s another point in favour of the assumptions here being conservative.

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