Recent content by Moriarte

Meanwhile, kind uncle Bibi is drawing parallels between the USA and nazi Germany. And Elon Musk helps him repost among 180 million of his followers.

Only totalitarian censorship through moderation can enable constructive and long lasting discussions.

So what happens next after the Israel bill passes or fails in Congress, I wonder. Clearly, the quiet from Israel is in anticipation of improved financing for the military, courtesy of the American people. But when they will receive the financing, will they fall back to tried and proven...

1. We have an official IDF tweet, which says 300 aerial objects were launched, 99% shot down. The tweet specifies which types were downed, so here's my guess: 30 Cruise missiles - $1 mil each. (low end estimation) 120 Ballistic missiles- $2 mil each. 170 UAV's $30k each. (±$5 mil) That adds up...

I will! The trilogy is sitting on my shelf for a year now. Next time I travel, I’ll finally start reading it. It would be great if you took the offer. I see only praises on my yt feed when it comes to Dune 2.

I went to cinema to see Dune (part two). I haven't been to cinema theatre for.. a decade. Villeneuve's Dune was the perfect excuse to indulge in something I used to do quite often in another life. I was treated with luxurious seats, very plush, retractable to the point of lying down, a glass of...

Over decades and centuries markets only go up. It is an uphill battle for any short seller, eventually most of them go down in flames. I can name a few billionaire short sellers (Michael Burry, Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, George Soros, John Paulson, Jim Chanos), yet it is a very small club of...

I'd venture a guess there was a cash out arrangement during IPO. Alternatively, these shares can be collateral in various types of schemes. Bottom line, even if he was penniless, he’s not anymore. Trump-and-dump, I insist! That’s not exactly how it works in the markets. Without going into...

Intelligence did appear on accident at least once already. AGI will be the next level of intelligence on the way up the ladder - supercharged intelligence. The ability to perform every task human performs, better than human. Or, at the very least, calculating prerequisites for efficiently...

Trump is planning to shift the focus of war, so, new permanent vacation addresses, not closing shop. New opportunities to fill out jobs at the Pacific theatre, new budgets - lots to be excited about. Not just doom and gloom of Donald cutting military funding to existing projects. But also the...

Well, the obvious counter-response is electro-magnetic (EM) weaponry. 1. M-SHORAD (Maneuver Short Range Air Defense): This system is designed for short-range air defense and incorporates a 50-kilowatt laser mounted on a Stryker combat vehicle. The system is part of the U.S. Army's effort to...

Now that we've established there is a subset of people who object to the referral to current artificial intelligence as intelligence, lets move on to AI in warfare. https://inkstickmedia.com/ai-is-transforming-military-drones/ In short, the author proposes that synergy from drone swarms and...

Capitalist will hire whoever is cheaper to hire. Capital is in constant search of a bargain. That's why US production moved to China in the past. No amount of patriotism is able to stand in the way of cost savings. Right now Humans are more appealing. Ten years ago robot's price tag would be in...

Intelligent enough to lift crates and take em to the opposite side of the warehouse. Intelligent enough to translate text better than overwhelming majority of individual human translators. Intelligent action is not a high bar to cross. You can wave your hand and say "nah, this isn't 100% human...

AI, and its subset, ML are solving the same kinds of problems human brain is solving at a faster rate using instruments of logic. Boosting productivity across the spectrum of jobs. You can argue fine points that brain and AI are dissimilar in some ways, and I will agree with you on that, but...